Most molecular phylogenetic studies place all placental mammals into four superordinal
groups, Laurasiatheria (eg dogs, bats, whales), Euarchontoglires (eg humans, rodents …

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

Mutations that accumulate in the genome of cells or viruses can be used to infer their
evolutionary history. In the case of rapidly evolving organisms, genomes can reveal their …

Phylogenomic datasets have been successfully used to address questions involving
evolutionary relationships, patterns of genome structure, signatures of selection, and gene …

RelTime estimates divergence times by relaxing the assumption of a strict molecular clock in
a phylogeny. It shows excellent performance in estimating divergence times for both …

Molecular clocks are the basis for dating the divergence between lineages over
macroevolutionary timescales (~ 105 to 108 years). However, classical DNA-based clocks …

Molecular clock models relate observed genetic diversity to calendar time, enabling
estimation of times of common ancestry. Many large datasets of fast-evolving viruses are not …

Abstract Fifty years ago, Lynn Margulis, inspiring in early twentieth-century ideas that put
forward a symbiotic origin for some eukaryotic organelles, proposed a unified theory for the …

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

Quantifying speciation times during human evolution is fundamental as it provides a
timescale to test for the correlation between key evolutionary transitions and extrinsic factors …