Causes and consequences of apparent timescaling across all estimated evolutionary rates

LJ Harmon, MW Pennell, LF Henao-Diaz… - Annual Review of …, 2021 - annualreviews.org
Evolutionary rates play a central role in connecting micro-and macroevolution. All
evolutionary rate estimates, including rates of molecular evolution, trait evolution, and …

[PDF][PDF] Phylogenetic comparative methods: learning from trees

L Harmon - 2019 - ecoevorxiv.org
Evolution is happening all around us. In many cases–lately, due to technological advances
in molecular biology–scientists can now describe the evolutionary process in exquisite …

TESS: an R package for efficiently simulating phylogenetic trees and performing Bayesian inference of lineage diversification rates

S Höhna, MR May, BR Moore - Bioinformatics, 2016 - academic.oup.com
Many fundamental questions in evolutionary biology entail estimating rates of lineage
diversification (speciation–extinction) that are modeled using birth–death branching …

[KÖNYV][B] Phylogenetic comparative methods

L Harmon - 2019 - scholar.archive.org
Evolution is happening all around us. In many cases–lately, due to technological advances
in molecular biology–scientists can now describe the evolutionary process in exquisite …

Extant species fail to estimate ancestral geographical ranges at older nodes in primate phylogeny

AL Wisniewski, GT Lloyd… - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - royalsocietypublishing.org
A clade's evolutionary history is shaped, in part, by geographical range expansion,
sweepstakes dispersal and local extinction. A rigorous understanding of historical …

Macroevolutionary diversification rates show time dependency

LF Henao Diaz, LJ Harmon, MTC Sugawara… - Proceedings of the …, 2019 - pnas.org
For centuries, biologists have been captivated by the vast disparity in species richness
between different groups of organisms. Variation in diversity is widely attributed to …

Rapidly changing speciation and extinction rates can be inferred in spite of nonidentifiability

BT Kopperud, AF Magee, S Höhna - … of the National Academy of Sciences, 2023 - pnas.org
The birth–death model is commonly used to infer speciation and extinction rates by fitting the
model to phylogenetic trees with exclusively extant taxa. Recently, it was demonstrated that …

The rise of grasslands is linked to atmospheric CO2 decline in the late Palaeogene

L Palazzesi, O Hidalgo, VD Barreda, F Forest… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Grasslands are predicted to experience a major biodiversity change by the year 2100. A
better understanding of how grasslands have responded to past environmental changes will …

A Bayesian approach for detecting the impact of mass‐extinction events on molecular phylogenies when rates of lineage diversification may vary

MR May, S Höhna, BR Moore - Methods in Ecology and …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
The paleontological record chronicles numerous episodes of mass extinction that severely
culled the Tree of Life. Biologists have long sought to assess the extent to which these …

Probabilistic graphical model representation in phylogenetics

S Höhna, TA Heath, B Boussau, MJ Landis… - Systematic …, 2014 - academic.oup.com
Recent years have seen a rapid expansion of the model space explored in statistical
phylogenetics, emphasizing the need for new approaches to statistical model representation …