Cichlid fishes are one of the most important model systems for evolutionary biology.
Unfortunately, however, the timeline of cichlid diversification is still insufficiently known and …

Cichlid fishes are celebrated for their vast taxonomic, phenotypic, and ecological diversity;
however, a central aspect of their evolution—the timeline of their diversification—remains …

Statistical phylogeography provides useful tools to characterize and quantify the spread of
organisms during the course of evolution. Analyzing georeferenced genetic data often relies …

Jointly developing a comprehensive tree of life from living and fossil taxa has long been a
fundamental goal in evolutionary biology. One major challenge has stemmed from …

The number of available liverwort fossils substantially increased within the past decade,
which is mainly due to new findings from Cretaceous and Cenozoic amber deposits. Many of …

Being given a phylogenetic tree of both extant and extinct taxa in which the fossil ages are
the only temporal information (namely, in which divergence times are considered unknown) …

I present here an in-depth, although non-exhaustive, review of two topics in molecular
dating. Clock models, which describe the evolution of the rate of evolution, are considered …

A new compilation of the Old World fossil record of Camelidae and a recent phylogenetic
analysis allow a new assessment of the timing of the clade's diversification. Using a recent …

Time-stamped historical observations are required for scaling phylogenetic estimates to
absolute time and, as a consequence, genomic data alone are not sufficient for dating the …

Sengis (order Macroscelidea) are small mammals endemic to Africa. The taxonomy and
phylogeny of sengis has been difficult to resolve due to a lack of clear morphological …