Evolutionary timescales can be inferred by molecular-clock analyses of genetic data and
fossil evidence. Bayesian phylogenetic methods such as tip dating provide a powerful …

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

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 …

Motivation Precise time calibrations needed to estimate ages of species divergence are not
always available due to fossil records' incompleteness. Consequently, clock calibrations …

This study introduces a new Bayesian technique for molecular dating that explicitly
accommodates for uncertainty in the phylogenetic position of calibrated nodes derived from …

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 …

Time calibrated trees are challenging to estimate for many extinct groups of species due to
the incompleteness of the rock and fossil records. Additionally, the precise age of a sample …

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 …

Molecular tip dating of phylogenetic trees is a growing discipline that uses DNA sequences
sampled at different points in time to coestimate the timing of evolutionary events with rates …

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 …