Fig. 3: Distribution of cranial shape and trade-off weight w rates of evolution.

a Distribution of rates of shape evolution on the placental carnivore phylogeny. Darker colours indicate slower rates and lighter colours indicate higher rates. b Distribution of trade-off weight w rates of evolution on the placental carnivore phylogeny. c Ridgeline plot displaying per-clade shape rates of evolution. d Ridgeline plot of per-clade trade-off weight w rates of evolution. Source Data are available at https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.23553648 in the “Code and Source Data” folder, included in the Data_Figure_3.rda file.