The fossil record is the primary source of information on how biodiversity has varied in deep
time, providing unique insight on the long-term dynamics of diversification and their drivers …

Evolution may be dominated by biotic factors, as in the Red Queen model, or abiotic factors,
as in the Court Jester model, or a mixture of both. The two models appear to operate …

We live life in the network. We check our e-mails regularly, make mobile phone calls from
almost any location, swipe transit cards to use public transportation, and make purchases …

Flies are one of four superradiations of insects (along with beetles, wasps, and moths) that
account for the majority of animal life on Earth. Diptera includes species known for their …

Replicate radiations provide powerful comparative systems to address questions about the
interplay between opportunity and innovation in driving episodes of diversification and the …

The global fossil record of marine animals has fueled long-standing debates about diversity
change through time and the drivers of this change. However, the fossil record is not truly …

Over the last two decades, new tools in the analysis of molecular phylogenies have enabled
study of the diversification dynamics of living clades in the absence of information about …

Aim Many important patterns and processes vary across the phylogeny and depend on
phylogenetic scale. Nonetheless, phylogenetic scale has never been formally …

Variation in the rate of species diversification underlies many large-scale patterns in the
organization of biological diversity. Here, I explore the phenomenon of diversity-dependent …

We argue that biotas at scales from local communities to entire continents are nearly always
open to new species and that their diversities are far from any ecological limits. We show …