Explaining broad molecular, phenotypic and species biodiversity patterns necessitates a
unifying framework spanning multiple evolutionary scales. Here we argue that although …

Mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) has been used to study molecular ecology and
phylogeography for 25 years. Much important information has been gained in this way, but it …

Phylogenies provide a useful way to understand the evolutionary history of genetic samples,
and data sets with more than a thousand taxa are becoming increasingly common, notably …

In phylogenetics, the unrooted model of phylogeny and the strict molecular clock model are
two extremes of a continuum. Despite their dominance in phylogenetic inference, it is …

Abstract Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) methods have found widespread use in many
fields of study to estimate the average properties of complex systems, and for posterior …

▪ Abstract About 20 years ago, DNA sequences were separately described from the quagga
(a type of zebra) and an ancient Egyptian individual. What made these DNA sequences …

This third edition of Reconstructing Quaternary Environments has been completely revised
and updated to provide a new account of the history and scale of environmental changes …

For over half a century, it has been known that the rate of morphological evolution appears
to vary with the time frame of measurement. Rates of microevolutionary change, measured …

In the past two decades, ancient DNA research has progressed from the retrieval of small
fragments of mitochondrial DNA from a few late Holocene specimens, to large-scale studies …

The estimation of phylogenetic divergence times from sequence data is an important
component of many molecular evolutionary studies. There is now a general appreciation …