Historical biogeography is increasingly studied from an explicitly statistical perspective, using
stochastic models to describe the evolution of species range as a continuous-time Markov …

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 …

Butterflies are a diverse and charismatic insect group that are thought to have evolved with
plants and dispersed throughout the world in response to key geological events. However, …

Gaussian processes, a class of stochastic processes including Brownian motion and the
Ornstein–Uhlenbeck process, are widely used to model continuous trait evolution in statistical …

Recent years have seen a rapid expansion of the model space explored in statistical
phylogenetics, emphasizing the need for new approaches to statistical model representation and …

The relative importance of different modes of evolution in shaping phenotypic diversity
remains a hotly debated question. Fossil data suggest that stasis may be a common mode of …

Statistical phylogenetic methods are the foundation for a wide range of evolutionary and
epidemiological studies. However, as these methods grow increasingly complex, users often …

The Hawaiian silversword alliance (Asteraceae) is an iconic adaptive radiation. However,
like many island plant lineages, no fossils have been assigned to the clade. As a result, the …

Myriad branches in the tree of life are intertwined through ecological relationships.
Biologists have long hypothesized that intimate symbioses between lineages can influence …

Standard models of molecular evolution cannot estimate absolute speciation times alone,
and require external calibrations to do so, such as fossils. Because fossil calibration methods …