Evolutionary rates play a central role in connecting micro-and macroevolution. All
evolutionary rate estimates, including rates of molecular evolution, trait evolution, and …

Evolvability is best addressed from a multi-level, macroevolutionary perspective through a
comparative approach that tests for among-clade differences in phenotypic diversification in …

The Cenozoic diversification of placental mammals is the archetypal adaptive radiation. Yet,
discrepancies between molecular divergence estimates and the fossil record fuel ongoing …

Evolutionary biologists have endeavoured to explain the extraordinary diversity of sperm
morphology across animals for more than a century. One hypothesis to explain sperm …

Rates of species formation vary widely across the tree of life and contribute to massive
disparities in species richness among clades. This variation can emerge from differences in …

How traits affect speciation is a long-standing question in evolution. We investigate whether
speciation rates are affected by the traits themselves or by the rates of their evolution, in …

Extrinsic and intrinsic factors impact diversity. On deep-time scales, the extrinsic impact of
climate and geology are crucial, but poorly understood. Here, we use the inner ear …

Episodic pulses in morphological diversification are a prominent feature of evolutionary
history, driven by factors that remain widely disputed. Resolving this question has proved …

Dispersal across biogeographic barriers is a key process determining global patterns of
biodiversity as it allows lineages to colonize and diversify in new realms. Here we …

Aim A major challenge in ecology and evolutionary biology is to explain the dramatic
differences in species richness among clades. Much variation in richness is explained by the …