Exploring macroevolution using modern and fossil data

Gradual Assembly of Avian Body Plan Culminated in Rapid Rates of Evolution across the Dinosaur-Bird Transition

(2014) Stephen L. Brusatte et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Models for the Rise of the Dinosaurs

(2014) Michael J. Benton et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Phylogenetic approaches for studying diversification

(2014) Hélène Morlon   ECOLOGY LETTERS

HIGH RATES OF EVOLUTION PRECEDED THE ORIGIN OF BIRDS

(2014) Mark N. Puttick et al.   EVOLUTION

Automatic Detection of Key Innovations, Rate Shifts, and Diversity-Dependence on Phylogenetic Trees

(2014) Daniel L. Rabosky   PLoS One

High-precision timeline for Earth’s most severe extinction

(2014) Seth D. Burgess et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

An integrative approach to understanding bird origins

(2014) X. Xu et al.   SCIENCE

Sustained miniaturization and anatomical innovation in the dinosaurian ancestors of birds

(2014) M. S. Y. Lee et al.   SCIENCE

Why does diversification slow down?

(2014) Daniel Moen et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Rates of Dinosaur Body Mass Evolution Indicate 170 Million Years of Sustained Ecological Innovation on the Avian Stem Lineage

(2014) Roger B. J. Benson et al.   PLOS BIOLOGY

An integrative view of phylogenetic comparative methods: connections to population genetics, community ecology, and paleobiology

(2013) Matthew W. Pennell et al.   Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Diversity-Dependence, Ecological Speciation, and the Role of Competition in Macroevolution

(2013) Daniel L. Rabosky   Annual Review of Ecology Evolution and Systematics

Clades reach highest morphological disparity early in their evolution

(2013) Martin Hughes et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

The radiation of cynodonts and the ground plan of mammalian morphological diversity

(2013) M. Ruta et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Decoupling of morphological disparity and taxic diversity during the adaptive radiation of anomodont therapsids

(2013) M. Ruta et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Phylogenetic evidence for a shift in the mode of mammalian body size evolution at the Cretaceous-Palaeogene boundary

(2013) Graham J. Slater   Methods in Ecology and Evolution

Is regional species diversity bounded or unbounded?

(2012) Howard V. Cornell   BIOLOGICAL REVIEWS

Birds have paedomorphic dinosaur skulls

(2012) Bhart-Anjan S. Bhullar et al.   NATURE

Phylogenomic datasets provide both precision and accuracy in estimating the timescale of placental mammal phylogeny

(2012) M. dos Reis et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Evolution of morphological disparity in pterosaurs

(2011) Katherine C. Prentice et al.   JOURNAL OF SYSTEMATIC PALAEONTOLOGY

Initial radiation of jaws demonstrated stability despite faunal and environmental change

(2011) Philip S. L. Anderson et al.   NATURE

Resetting the evolution of marine reptiles at the Triassic-Jurassic boundary

(2011) P. M. Thorne et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Mammalian phylogeny reveals recent diversification rate shifts

(2011) T. Stadler   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Diversity-dependence brings molecular phylogenies closer to agreement with the fossil record

(2011) R. S. Etienne et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

The Newest Synthesis: Understanding the Interplay of Evolutionary and Ecological Dynamics

(2011) T. W. Schoener   SCIENCE

Interplay Between Changing Climate and Species' Ecology Drives Macroevolutionary Dynamics

(2011) T. H. G. Ezard et al.   SCIENCE

Calibrating the End-Permian Mass Extinction

(2011) S.-z. Shen et al.   SCIENCE

MOTMOT: models of trait macroevolution on trees

(2011) Gavin H. Thomas et al.   Methods in Ecology and Evolution

Phylogeography Takes a Relaxed Random Walk in Continuous Space and Time

(2010) P. Lemey et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

The Shifting Balance of Diversity Among Major Marine Animal Groups

(2010) J. Alroy   SCIENCE

Evolutionary Bangs and Whimpers: Methodological Advances and Conceptual Frameworks for Studying Exceptional Diversification

(2010) Daniel L. Rabosky et al.   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY

Adaptive Radiation: Contrasting Theory with Data

(2009) S. Gavrilets et al.   SCIENCE

The Red Queen and the Court Jester: Species Diversity and the Role of Biotic and Abiotic Factors Through Time

(2009) M. J. Benton   SCIENCE

CALIBRATED DIVERSITY, TREE TOPOLOGY AND THE MOTHER OF MASS EXTINCTIONS: THE LESSON OF TEMNOSPONDYLS

(2008) MARCELLO RUTA et al.   PALAEONTOLOGY

On the bidirectional relationship between geographic range and taxonomic duration

(2008) Michael Foote et al.   PALEOBIOLOGY

Phylogenetic trees and the future of mammalian biodiversity

(2008) T. J. Davies et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Superiority, Competition, and Opportunism in the Evolutionary Radiation of Dinosaurs

(2008) Stephen L. Brusatte et al.   SCIENCE