2) Provide more references for the statements made throughout the paper; there are many statements where references would be helpful.
The newspaper's evidence was that the reference for the statement, "Rowell and Moore, 2000," is a non-peer-reviewed report on forest fires by the World Wildlife Fund, which cited as evidence for the claim a 1999 Nature paper.
It would also be very useful to provide references for this statement.
We have now changed the reference for this statement to a recent review (Haslberger et al.,2010).
A reference is needed for the statement about M. buccinatorius having many patterns among mammals.
Also no reference is cited for the statement that these were generated as previously described.
Regarding the section on mandibular dentition: a reference is needed for the statement that large interdental spaces are unusual in herbivores, and for the statement that unfused zygomatic arches distinguish pilosans from most other mammals.
fWe could not have found a reference for this statement but it is proof is elementary.
I miss a reference for this statement.
I responded in a short note and appended several references, but in it I stated that there was no primary reference for these statements, but rather they were generally "implicit" in the literature.
