Combining morphological and molecular characters through Bayesian total-evidence dating
allows inferring the phylogenetic and timescale framework of both extant and fossil taxa …

Sloths, like other xenarthrans, are an extremely interesting group of mammals that, after a
long history of evolution and diversification in South America, became established on …

Phylogenetic relationships among sloths (Folivora) have been extensively studied in the
past few decades using maximum parsimony approaches. Recently, Bayesian phylogenetic …

Morphological integration predicts that correlated characters will coevolve; thus, each
distinct suite of correlated characters might be expected to evolve according to a separate …

The incorporation of stratigraphic data into phylogenetic analysis has a long history of
debate, but is not currently standard practice for palaeontologists. Bayesian tip-dating (or …

The incorporation of stratigraphic data into phylogenetic analysis has a long history of
debate but is not currently standard practice for paleontologists. Bayesian tip-dated (or …

Background The vast majority of all life that ever existed on earth is now extinct and several
aspects of their evolutionary history can only be assessed by using morphological data from …

In the age of genome-scale DNA sequencing, choice of molecular marker arguably remains
an important decision in planning a phylogenetic study. Using published genomes from 23 …

A comprehensive analysis of early dinosaur relationships raised the possibility that the
group may have originated in Laurasia (Northern Hemisphere), rather than Gondwana …

Relaxed clock Bayesian evolutionary inference (BEI) enables the co‐estimation of
phylogenetic trees and evolutionary parameters associated with models of character and …