Discrete character-taxon matrices are increasingly being used in an attempt to understand
the pattern and tempo of morphological evolution; however, methodological sophistication …

Over the past decade, a new set of methods for estimating dated trees has emerged.
Originally referred to as the fossilized birth–death (FBD) process, this single model has …

Large-scale adaptive radiations might explain the runaway success of a minority of extant
vertebrate clades. This hypothesis predicts, among other things, rapid rates of morphological …

paleotree is a library of functions for the R statistical computing environment dedicated to
analyses that combine paleontological and phylogenetic data sets, particularly the time …

The evolution of birds from theropod dinosaurs was one of the great evolutionary transitions
in the history of life [1–22]. The macroevolutionary tempo and mode of this transition is …

Abstract strap (S tratigraphic T ree A nalysis for P alaeontology) is a new package for the
freely available statistical programming language R designed to perform three main …

We review the empirical phylogenetic literature on plant diversification, highlighting
challenges in separating the effects of speciation and extinction, in specifying diversification …

Quantifying phenotypic evolutionary rates and their variation across phylogenetic trees is a
major issue in evolutionary biology. A number of phylogenetic comparative methods (PCM …

Recent innovations in phylogenetic comparative methods (PCMs) have spurred a
renaissance of research into the causes and consequences of large‐scale patterns of …

Fishes include more than half of all living animals with backbones, but large‐scale
palaeobiological patterns in this assemblage have not received the same attention as those …