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

Confidence in molecular dating analyses has grown with the increasing sophistication of the
methods. Some problematic cases where molecular dates disagreed with paleontological …

For centuries, biologists have been captivated by the vast disparity in species richness
between different groups of organisms. Variation in diversity is widely attributed to …

Reconstructing past events of hybridization and population size changes are required to
understand speciation mechanisms and current patterns of genetic diversity, and ultimately …

Important evolutionary events such as the Cambrian Explosion have inspired many attempts
at explanation: why do they happen when they do? What shapes them, and why do they …

Charles Darwin presented a unified process of diversification driven by the gradual
accumulation of heritable variation. The growth in DNA databases and the increase in …

Shorebirds (Charadriiformes) are a globally distributed clade of modern birds and, due to
their ecological and morphological disparity, a frequent subject of comparative studies …

Birth–death models are stochastic processes describing speciation and extinction through
time and across taxa and are widely used in biology for inference of evolutionary timescales …

Abstract Background and Aim Plant disjunctions have fascinated biogeographers and
ecologists for a long time. We use tribe Bocageeae (Annonaceae), a predominantly …

Abstract The Greater Antilles are renowned as a biodiversity hotspot and known to be
geologically complex, which has led, in part, to the generation of organismal diversity in this …