Over the past decade, a new set of methods for estimating dated trees has emerged.
Originally referred to as the fossilized birth–death (FBD) process, this single model has …

A lot of what we know about past speciation and extinction dynamics is based on statistically
fitting birth–death processes to phylogenies of extant species. Despite their wide use, the …

Spatial properties of tumour growth have profound implications for cancer progression,
therapeutic resistance and metastasis. Yet, how spatial position governs tumour cell division …

The birth–death model is commonly used to infer speciation and extinction rates by fitting the
model to phylogenetic trees with exclusively extant taxa. Recently, it was demonstrated that …

Estimating time-dependent rates of speciation and extinction from dated phylogenetic trees
of extant species (timetrees), and determining how and why they vary, is key to …

Time-calibrated phylogenies of extant species (" extant timetrees") are widely used to
estimate historical speciation and extinction rates by fitting stochastic birth-death models. 1 …

Birth–death stochastic processes are the foundations of many phylogenetic models and are
widely used to make inferences about epidemiological and macroevolutionary dynamics …

The latitudinal diversity gradient (LDG) describes the pattern of increasing numbers of
species from the poles to the equator. Although recognized for over 200 years, the …

In a striking result, Louca and Pennell [S. Louca, MW Pennell, Nature 580, 502–505 (2020)]
recently proved that a large class of phylogenetic birth–death models is statistically …

Many different macroevolutionary models can produce the same observations. Despite
efforts in building more complex and realistic models, it may still be difficult to distinguish the …