The major diversification of flowering plants (angiosperms) in the Early Cretaceous, between
about 130 and 90 million years ago, initiated fundamental changes in terrestrial ecosystems …

▪ Abstract The Siluro-Devonian primary radiation of land biotas is the terrestrial equivalent of
the much-debated Cambrian “explosion” of marine faunas. Both show the hallmarks of …

Inferring the intrinsic and extrinsic drivers of species diversification and phenotypic disparity
across the tree of life is a major challenge in evolutionary biology. In green plants, polyploidy …

Although temporal calibration is widely recognized as critical for obtaining accurate
divergence-time estimates using molecular dating methods, few studies have evaluated the …

The phylogenetic structure of ferns (= monilophytes) is explored here, with a special focus
on the early divergences among leptosporangiate lineages. Despite considerable progress …

In this article we explore the paradox of why morphological data are currently utilized less for
phylogeny reconstruction than are DNA sequence data, whereas most of what we know …

Plants have utterly transformed the planet, but testing hypotheses of causality requires a
reliable time‐scale for plant evolution. While clock methods have been extensively …

Although they are among the most abundant of all living things and provide essential
oxygen, food, and shelter to the animal kingdom, few books pay any attention to how and …

We live in the age of comparative genomics, and it may seem that there is not much point in
reconstructing phylogenies using morphological data anymore. As more and more genes …

Archaefructaceae is proposed as a new basal angiosperm family of herbaceous aquatic
plants. This family consists of the fossils Archaefructus liaoningensis and A. sinensis sp. nov …