The age of the angiosperms has long been of interest to botanists and evolutionary
biologists. Many early efforts to date the age of the angiosperms and evolutionary …

A major concern in molecular clock dating is how to use information from the fossil record to
calibrate genetic distances from DNA sequences. Here we apply three Bayesian dating …

Bayesian methods are increasingly being used to estimate divergence times without the
restrictive assumption of a global clock. Little is known about their reliability for shallow …

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 …

Biodiversity has always been predominantly microbial, and the scarcity of fossils from
bacteria, archaea and microbial eukaryotes has prevented a comprehensive dating of the …

Phylogenies are usually dated by calibrating interior nodes against the fossil record. This
relies on indirect methods that, in the worst case, misrepresent the fossil information. Here …

Molecular dating analyses allow evolutionary timescales to be estimated from genetic data,
offering an unprecedented capacity for investigating the evolutionary past of all species …

Establishing the dates for the origin and main diversification events in the phylogeny of
Ascomycota is among the most crucial remaining goals in understanding the evolution of …

The main outcome of molecular dating, the timetree, provides crucial information for
understanding the evolutionary history of lineages and is a requirement of several …

The molecular clock provides a powerful way to estimate species divergence times. If
information on some species divergence times is available from the fossil or geological …