The molecular clock presents a means of estimating evolutionary rates and timescales using
genetic data. These estimates can lead to important insights into evolutionary processes and …

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 …

Programs for Bayesian inference of phylogeny currently implement a unique and fixed suite
of models. Consequently, users of these software packages are simultaneously forced to …

Motivation: Sequence-based methods to delimit species are central to DNA taxonomy,
microbial community surveys and DNA metabarcoding studies. Current approaches either …

Time-calibrated species phylogenies are critical for addressing a wide range of questions in
evolutionary biology, such as those that elucidate historical biogeography or uncover …

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 …

The total-evidence approach to divergence time dating uses molecular and morphological
data from extant and fossil species to infer phylogenetic relationships, species divergence …

Presumably, due to a rapid early diversification, major parts of the higher-level phylogeny of
birds are still resolved controversially in different analyses or are considered unresolvable …

Studies of evolution at the molecular level have experienced phenomenal growth in the last
few decades, due to rapid accumulation of genetic sequence data, improved computer …

Primates have long been a test case for the development of phylogenetic methods for
divergence time estimation. Despite a large number of studies, however, the timing of …