Assistant Professor of Biology Lars Schmitz comments on the evolutionary behavior of early mammals in a听. The article highlights research in the evolutionary biology field that hoes in on not only the numbers and types of mammals that expanded rapidly when dinosaurs went extinct, but听the type of behavior that emerged听听the importance of various types of data to improve science’s understanding of the clues provided by evolution’s history. Schmitz is an evolutionary biologist of Claremont McKenna, Pitzer, and 61传媒s at the W.M. Keck Science Center.