Our ability to correlate biological evolution with climate change, geological evolution, and
other historical patterns is essential to understanding the processes that shape biodiversity …

INTRODUCTION Crocodilians and birds are the two extant clades of archosaurs, a group
that includes the extinct dinosaurs and pterosaurs. Fossils suggest that living crocodilians …

With proliferation of molecular phylogenies and advances in statistical modeling,
phylogeneticists can now address macroevolutionary questions that had traditionally been …

ABSTRACT Building the Tree of Life (ToL) is a major challenge of modern biology, requiring
advances in cyberinfrastructure, data collection, theory, and more. Here, we argue that …

Divergence-time estimation based on molecular phylogenies and the fossil record has
provided insights into fundamental questions of evolutionary biology. In Bayesian node …

Molecular dating has now become a common tool for many biologists and considerable
methodological improvements have been made over the last few years. However, the …

More than a decade of phylogenetic research has yielded a well-sampled, strongly
supported hypothesis of relationships within the large (> 4000 species) plant family …

Fossils provide the principal basis for temporal calibrations, which are critical to the accuracy
of divergence dating analyses. Translating fossil data into minimum and maximum bounds …

The study of pollen morphology has historically allowed evolutionary biologists to assess
phylogenetic relationships among Angiosperms, as well as to better understand the fossil …

Highlights•Molecular datasets grew exponentially from 1985 to 2010.•New technology since
2010 accelerated the rate at which datasets increase in size.•Recent large datasets have …