Bayesian total-evidence dating involves the simultaneous analysis of morphological data
from the fossil record and morphological and sequence data from recent organisms, and it …

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 …

Over the past decade, a new set of methods for estimating dated trees has emerged.
Originally referred to as the fossilized birth–death (FBD) process, this single model has …

Fossil information is essential for estimating species divergence times, and can be
integrated into Bayesian phylogenetic inference using the fossilized birth–death (FBD) …

The temporal dynamics of species diversity are shaped by variations in the rates of
speciation and extinction, and there is a long history of inferring these rates using first and …

Time-calibrated species phylogenies are critical for addressing a wide range of questions in
evolutionary biology, such as those that elucidate historical biogeography or uncover …

Bayesian inference provides a powerful framework for integrating different sources of
information (in particular, molecules and fossils) to derive estimates of species divergence …

Bayesian molecular dating is widely used to study evolutionary timescales. This procedure
usually involves phylogenetic analysis of nucleotide sequence data, with fossil-based …

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

The estimation of origination and extinction rates and their temporal variation is central to
understanding diversity patterns and the evolutionary history of clades. The fossil record …