Evolutionary rates play a central role in connecting micro-and macroevolution. All
evolutionary rate estimates, including rates of molecular evolution, trait evolution, and …

The unparalleled biodiversity found in the American tropics (the Neotropics) has attracted
the attention of naturalists for centuries. Despite major advances in recent years in our …

We present mvmorph, a package of multivariate phylogenetic comparative methods for the r
statistical environment. mvmorph is freely available on the cran package repository …

Phylogenetic comparative methods are increasingly used to give new insights into the
dynamics of trait evolution in deep time. For continuous traits the core of these methods is a …

A substantial amount of phenotypic diversity results from changes in gene expression levels
and patterns. Understanding how the transcriptome evolves is therefore a key priority in …

Abstract Models based on the Ornstein–Uhlenbeck process have become standard for the
comparative study of adaptation. have cast doubt on this practice by claiming statistical …

Evolutionary biologists characterize macroevolutionary trends of phenotypic change across
the tree of life using phylogenetic comparative methods. However, within‐species variation …

Several theories predict that rates of phenotypic evolution should be related to the rate at
which new lineages arise. However, drawing general conclusions regarding the coupling …

The relative importance of different modes of evolution in sha** phenotypic diversity
remains a hotly debated question. Fossil data suggest that stasis may be a common mode of …

Working with high-dimensional phylogenetic comparative data sets is challenging because
likelihood-based multivariate methods suffer from low statistical performances as the …