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 …

Fossils provide our only direct window into evolutionary events in the distant past.
Incorporating them into phylogenetic hypotheses of living clades can help time-calibrate …

Reconstructing the evolutionary history of different groups of organisms provides insight into
how life originated and diversified on Earth. Phylogenetic trees are commonly used to …

Background The vast majority of all life that ever existed on earth is now extinct and several
aspects of their evolutionary history can only be assessed by using morphological data from …

For much of terrestrial biodiversity, the evolutionary pathways of adaptation from marine
ancestors are poorly understood and have usually been viewed as a binary trait. True crabs …

Logical character dependency is a major conceptual and methodological problem in
phylogenetic inference of morphological data sets, as it violates the assumption of character …

Estimating deep-time species-level diversification processes remains challenging. Both the
fossil record and molecular phylogenies allow the estimation of speciation and extinction …

As evolutionary biologists, we live in exciting and promising times. The material basis of our
science is growing at an unprecedented rate; fossils preserving structures we thought …

Background Despite the excellent fossil record of cephalopods, their early evolution is
poorly understood. Different, partly incompatible phylogenetic hypotheses have been …

Fossils provide unique opportunity to understand the tempo and mode of evolution and are
essential for modeling the history of lineage diversification. Here, we interrogate the …