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Fabio Alfieri

@fabioalfieri2.bsky.social

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Evolutionary biologist and functional morphologist focusing on the evolution of bone morphology in vertebrates. Currently looking for a post-doc

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Fabio Alfieri @fabioalfieri2.bsky.social · 1d

And here you can find the plain-language summary🙂

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Why bird wing bones look so similar inside, no matter how they live

Fabio Alfieri, Oliver E. Demuth, Elizabeth M. Steell, Anne-Claire Fabre, Daniel J. Field This is a plain language summary of a Functional Ecology research article which can be found here. Bones are…

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Fabio Alfieri @fabioalfieri2.bsky.social · 1d

thank you so much @albertonykus.bsky.social :)

Fabio Alfieri @fabioalfieri2.bsky.social · 1d

Happy to share my first postdoc work published in @funecology.bsky.social ! A huge thank-you to @oliverdemuth.bsky.social @lizzysteell.bsky.social @fieldpalaeo.bsky.social @grumpydrfabre.bsky.social and to @snsf.ch

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Constrained variation in the internal architecture of avian wing bones

Read the free Plain Language Summary for this article on the Journal blog.

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Dr Alessio Veneziano @aveneziano.bsky.social · May 16

Our latest paper on fibulas 🦴 has finally a home in the @journalofanatomy.bsky.social! We studied trabecular architecture to check if it records arboreal habits 🌳 in #primates 🐒🦧🦍... (1/2) 🧪 #science 🏺 #BioAnth

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The relationship between primate distal fibula trabecular architecture and arboreality, phylogeny and size

The fibula, despite being traditionally overlooked compared to the femur and the tibia, has recently received attention in primate functional morphology due to its correlation with the degree of arbo....

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