Biodiversity is unevenly distributed on Earth and hotspots of biodiversity are often
associated with areas that have undergone orogenic activity during recent geological history …

The Great Lakes of East Africa are collectively the earth's most remarkable and species-rich
freshwater feature. Intrinsic biological factors and extrinsic ecological opportunities allowed …

Spiny-rayed fishes, or acanthomorphs, comprise nearly one-third of all living vertebrates.
Despite their dominant role in aquatic ecosystems, the evolutionary history and tempo of …

Lake Tanganyika is the oldest and phenotypically most diverse of the three East African
cichlid fish adaptive radiations. It is also the cradle for the younger parallel haplochromine …

The recurrent evolution of convergent forms is a widespread phenomenon in adaptive
radiations (eg,[1–9]). For example, similar ecotypes of anoles lizards have evolved on …

In this paper, I develop efficient tools to simulate trees with a fixed number of extant species.
The tools are provided in my open source R-package TreeSim available on CRAN. The new …

Understanding the rate at which new species form is a key question in studying the evolution
of life on earth. Here we review our current understanding of speciation rates, focusing on …

The most rapid species radiations have been reported from 'evolutionary laboratories', such
as the Andes and the Cape of South Africa, leading to the prevailing view that diversification …

Unresolved nodes in phylogenetic trees (polytomies) have long been recognized for their
influences on specific phylogenetic metrics such as topological imbalance measures …

Adaptive radiation is thought to be responsible for the evolution of a great portion of the past
and present diversity of life. Instances of adaptive radiation, characterized by the rapid …