Many different macroevolutionary models can produce the same observations. Despite
efforts in building more complex and realistic models, it may still be difficult to distinguish the …

Phylogenetic relationships and the timing of evolutionary events are essential for
understanding evolution on longer time scales. Cheilostome bryozoans are a group of …

Parental care is considered crucial for the enhanced survival of offspring and evolutionary
success of many metazoan groups. Most bryozoans incubate their young in brood chambers …

Palaeontologists have long sought to explain the diversification of individual clades to whole
biotas at global scales. Advances in our understanding of the spatial distribution of the fossil …

By comparing detrended estimates of diversity (taxonomic richness) and rates of origination,
extinction, and net diversification, I show that at the global scale over the course of the …

Identifying competitive exclusion at the macroevolutionary scale has typically relied on
demonstrating a reciprocal, contradictory response by two co-occurring, functionally similar …

Cheilostomata is the most diverse and ecologically dominant order of bryozoans living
today. We apply a Bayesian framework to estimate macroevolutionary rates of cheilostomes …

In investigating global patterns of biodiversity through deep time, many large-scale drivers of
diversification have been proposed, both biotic and abiotic. However, few robust …

Rigorous analysis of diversity-dependence—the hypothesis that the rate of proliferation of
new species is inversely related to standing diversity—requires consideration of the ecology …

Mammals exhibit ecology‐related diversity in long bone morphology, revealing an ample
spectrum of adaptations both within and between clades. Their occupation of unique …