It has recently become clear that several human lineages coexisted with Homo sapiens
during the late Middle and Late Pleistocene. Here, we report an archaic human fossil that …

Phylogenetic trees are crucial to many aspects of taxonomic and comparative biology. Many
researchers have adopted Bayesian methods to estimate their phylogenetic trees. In this …

Posterior distributions are commonly approximated by samples produced from a Markov
chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) simulation. Every MCMC simulation has to be checked for …

Comparing the pathogen genomes from several cases of an infectious disease has the
potential to help us understand and control outbreaks. Many methods exist to reconstruct a …

Abstract Model selection aims to choose the most adequate model for the statistical analysis
at hand. The model must be complex enough to capture the complexity of the data but …

Originally developed for the quantitative analysis of organismal shapes, both two‐
dimensional (2D) and 3D geometric morphometric methods (GMMs) have recently gained …

Bayesian coalescent skyline plot models are widely used to infer demographic histories. The
first (non-Bayesian) coalescent skyline plot model assumed a known genealogy as data …

Phylodynamic models generally aim at jointly inferring phylogenetic relationships, model
parameters, and more recently, the number of lineages through time, based on molecular …

Species richness varies considerably among the tree of life which can only be explained by
heterogeneous rates of diversification (speciation and extinction). Previous approaches use …

A striking characteristic of the Western North American flora is the repeated evolution of
hummingbird pollination from insect-pollinated ancestors. This pattern has received …