Explaining broad molecular, phenotypic and species biodiversity patterns necessitates a
unifying framework spanning multiple evolutionary scales. Here we argue that although …

Ecologists and evolutionary biologists are increasingly using big-data approaches to tackle
questions at large spatial, taxonomic, and temporal scales. However, despite recent efforts …

Single-cell sequencing has characterized cell state heterogeneity across diverse healthy
and malignant tissues. However, the plasticity or heritability of these cell states remains …

We present mvmorph, a package of multivariate phylogenetic comparative methods for the r
statistical environment. mvmorph is freely available on the cran package repository …

As a result of the process of descent with modification, closely related species tend to be
similar to one another in a myriad different ways. In statistical terms, this means that traits …

The primary rationale for the use of phylogenetically based statistical methods is that
phylogenetic signal, the tendency for related species to resemble each other, is ubiquitous …

Comparative methods used to study patterns of evolutionary change in a continuous trait on
a phylogeny range from Brownian motion processes to models where the trait is assumed to …

Abstract George Gaylord Simpson famously postulated that much of life's diversity originated
as adaptive radiations—more or less simultaneous divergences of numerous lines from a …

Comparative studies tend to differ from optimality and functionality studies in how they treat
adaptation. While the comparative approach focuses on the origin and change of traits …

Although many of the statistical techniques used in comparative biology were originally
developed in quantitative genetics, subsequent development of comparative techniques has …