Whether the fossil record should be read at face value or whether it presents a distorted view
of the history of life is an argument seemingly as old as many fossils themselves. In the late …

Fungi are integral to well-functioning ecosystems, and their broader impact on Earth systems
is widely acknowledged. Fossil evidence from the Rhynie Chert (Scotland, UK) shows that …

The open‐source programming language 'R'has become a standard tool in the
palaeobiologist's toolkit. Its popularity within the palaeobiological community continues to …

The earliest fossils of winged insects (Pterygota) are mid-Carboniferous (latest
Mississippian, 328–324 Mya), but estimates of their age based on fossil-calibrated …

Gene flow is increasingly recognized as an important macroevolutionary process. The many
mechanisms that contribute to gene flow (eg introgression, hybridization, lateral gene …

Simulating biological realistic data is an important step to understand and investigate
biodiversity. Simulated data can be used to generate null, base line or neutral models …

Estimating speciation and extinction rates is essential for understanding past and present
biodiversity, but is challenging given the incompleteness of the rock and fossil records …

Abstract Changes in speciation and extinction rates are key to the dynamics of clade
diversification, but attempts to infer them from phylogenies of extant species face challenges …

We introduce PhyloJunction, a computational framework designed to facilitate the
prototyping, test-ing, and characterization of evolutionary models. PhyloJunction is …

Birth-death processes have given biologists a model-based framework to answer questions
about changes in the birth and death rates of lineages in a phylogenetic tree. Therefore birth …