Organismal morphology has been at the core of study of biodiversity for millennia before the
formalization of the concept of evolution. In the early to mid-twentieth century, a strong …

Morphology, the scientific discipline dealing with description and comparison of organismal
form, is one of the oldest disciplines in biology and traditionally strongly linked to the concept …

Disparity (shape diversity) is a key aspect of biodiversity, both present and past. The shapes
of organisms are usually quantified by means of morphometrics. In this article, after a short …

For decades, theoretical morphological studies of different groups of organisms have been
successfully pursued in biological, paleontological, and computational contexts, often with …

Over the past half century, the field of Evolutionary Developmental Biology, or Evo‐devo,
has integrated diverse fields of biology into a more synthetic understanding of morphological …

Although the mathematical principles underpinning population-level evolution are now well
studied, the origin and evolution of morphological novelties has received far less attention …

Evolutionary trees underpin virtually all of biology, and the wealth of new genomic data has
enabled us to reconstruct them with increasing detail and confidence. While phenotypic …

Morphology has traditionally played a pivotal role in animal phylogeny since the first
evolutionary biologists began to decipher the animal tree of life. In recent times, however …

Evolutionary rates are paramount in biology. Periods of high rates suggest 1 intense periods
of directional selection and offer unpredicted insights into 2 how evolution shapes …

The genomic revolution has been exhilarating as it probes the genetic material of all
organisms on Earth, making possible reconstructions of phylogeny and developmental …