Phylogenies are important for addressing various biological questions such as relationships
among species or genes, the origin and spread of viral infection and the demographic …

Five decades have passed since the proposal of the molecular clock hypothesis, which
states that the rate of evolution at the molecular level is constant through time and among …

Comparative genomic analyses of primates offer considerable potential to define and
understand the processes that mold, shape, and transform the human genome. However …

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 …

Did the end-Cretaceous mass extinction event, by eliminating non-avian dinosaurs and most
of the existing fauna, trigger the evolutionary radiation of present-day mammals? Here we …

Beim Studium der jüngeren Kontroversen über den Darwinismus fiel mir wiederholt auf, das
sie falsche Darstellungen enthielten, so als würde es sich um irgendetwas Umfassenderes …

Phylogenetic relationships, divergence times, and patterns of biogeographic descent among
primate species are both complex and contentious. Here, we generate a robust molecular …

The field of molecular evolution has experienced explosive growth in recent years due to the
rapid accumulation of genetic sequence data, continuous improvements to computer …

This concise introductory text provides a complete overview of biodiversity-what it is, how it
arose, its distribution, why it is important, human impact upon it, and what should be done to …

The estimation of phylogenetic divergence times from sequence data is an important
component of many molecular evolutionary studies. There is now a general appreciation …