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Form-Function Correlation Paradigm in Mammalogy. A Tribute to Leonard B. Radinsky (1937–1985)

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This special issue of the Journal of Mammalian Evolution represents the proceedings from a symposium held in conjunction with the XXXI Jornadas Argentinas de Mastozoología (SAREM, La Rioja, Argentina, October 25, 2018), and entitled “El paradigma de correlación forma-función en mastozoología: un tributo a Leonard Radinsky (1937–1985).” In this introduction to the symposium proceedings, we provide a brief account of Radinsky’s expertise and academic goals, and we remark on the textbook “The Evolution of Vertebrate Design” posthumously published, to introduce the contents of the present volume and highlight Len’s academic (research and teaching) and social sensitivity from the perspective of current times.

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Acknowledgments

We like to express our appreciation and gratitude to John R. Wible, the editor-in-chief of the Journal of Mammalian Evolution, for his support, dedication, and shared enthusiasm in honoring Radinsky; we are also grateful to all the contributors and reviewers for their sustained efforts to acomplish the present tribute; Jonathan Perry for valuable suggestions that improved the manuscript; the organizers of the XXXI Jornadas Argentinas de Mastozoología (SAREM), A. Chemisquy and F. Prevosti, for allowing us to organize the symposium: “El paradigma de correlación forma-función en mastozoología: un tributo a Leonard Radinsky (1937–1985)”; La Rioja, Argentina, 25 October, 2018; and to those teachers who, like Len, encouraged us while students to research to improve the understanding of animal form and function.

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Cassini, G.H., Toledo, N. & Vizcaíno, S.F. Form-Function Correlation Paradigm in Mammalogy. A Tribute to Leonard B. Radinsky (1937–1985). J Mammal Evol 28, 1–5 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10914-020-09528-3

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