Survival and selection biases in early animal evolution and a source of systematic overestimation in molecular clocks

The origin of animal body plans: a view from fossil evidence and the regulatory genome

(2020) Douglas H. Erwin   DEVELOPMENT

The dynamics of stem and crown groups

(2020) Graham E. Budd et al.   Science Advances

Caught in the act: priapulid burrowers in early Cambrian substrates

(2019) Giannis Kesidis et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

The choice of tree prior and molecular clock does not substantially affect phylogenetic inferences of diversification rates

(2019) Brice A.J. Sarver et al.   PeerJ

The Qingjiang biota—A Burgess Shale–type fossil Lagerstätte from the early Cambrian of South China

(2019) Dongjing Fu et al.   SCIENCE

Trilobite evolutionary rates constrain the duration of the Cambrian explosion

(2019) John R. Paterson et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

How deep is the conflict between molecular and fossil evidence on the age of angiosperms?

(2019) Mario Coiro et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Mitigating Anticipated Effects of Systematic Errors Supports Sister-Group Relationship between Xenacoelomorpha and Ambulacraria

(2019) Hervé Philippe et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

The Effect of Fossil Sampling on the Estimation of Divergence Times With The Fossilised Birth Death Process

(2019) Joseph E O’Reilly et al.   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY

BEAST 2.5: An advanced software platform for Bayesian evolutionary analysis

(2019) Remco Bouckaert et al.   PLoS Computational Biology

Congruence, fossils and the evolutionary tree of rodents and lagomorphs

(2019) Robert J. Asher et al.   Royal Society Open Science

Evolution: The Flowering of Land Plant Evolution

(2019) Philip Donoghue   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Hunting the Snark: the flawed search for mythical Jurassic angiosperms

(2019) Richard M Bateman   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY

Death march of a segmented and trilobate bilaterian elucidates early animal evolution

(2019) Zhe Chen et al.   NATURE

Reply to: Sources of C30 steroid biomarkers in Neoproterozoic–Cambrian rocks and oils

(2019) Christian Hallmann et al.   Nature Ecology & Evolution

The Early Ediacaran Caveasphaera Foreshadows the Evolutionary Origin of Animal-like Embryology

(2019) Zongjun Yin et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

The temporal and environmental context of early animal evolution: considering all the ingredients of an ‘explosion’

(2018) Erik A Sperling et al.   INTEGRATIVE AND COMPARATIVE BIOLOGY

Constraining uncertainty in the timescale of angiosperm evolution and the veracity of a Cretaceous Terrestrial Revolution

(2018) Jose Barba-Montoya et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Small carbonaceous fossils (SCFs) from the Terreneuvian (lower Cambrian) of Baltica

(2018) Ben J. Slater et al.   PALAEONTOLOGY

Early fossil record of Euarthropoda and the Cambrian Explosion

(2018) Allison C. Daley et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Impact of the tree prior on estimating clock rates during epidemic outbreaks

(2018) Simon Möller et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Posterior Summarization in Bayesian Phylogenetics Using Tracer 1.7

(2018) Andrew Rambaut et al.   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY

History is written by the victors: The effect of the push of the past on the fossil record

(2018) Graham E. Budd et al.   EVOLUTION

Evolution of metazoan morphological disparity

(2018) Bradley Deline et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Closing the gap between palaeontological and neontological speciation and extinction rate estimates

(2018) Daniele Silvestro et al.   Nature Communications

The Weng'an Biota (Doushantuo Formation): an Ediacaran window on soft-bodied and multicellular microorganisms

(2017) John A. Cunningham et al.   JOURNAL OF THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY

Comparison of different strategies for using fossil calibrations to generate the time prior in Bayesian molecular clock dating

(2017) Jose Barba-Montoya et al.   MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION

Convergent evolution of bilaterian nerve cords

(2017) José M. Martín-Durán et al.   NATURE

Ichnological evidence for meiofaunal bilaterians from the terminal Ediacaran and earliest Cambrian of Brazil

(2017) Luke A. Parry et al.   Nature Ecology & Evolution

The origin of animals: Can molecular clocks and the fossil record be reconciled?

(2016) John A. Cunningham et al.   BIOESSAYS

Molecular clocks

(2016) Michael S.Y. Lee et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Dodging snowballs: Geochronology of the Gaskiers glaciation and the first appearance of the Ediacaran biota

(2016) Judy P. Pu et al.   GEOLOGY

New deep-sea species of Xenoturbella and the position of Xenacoelomorpha

(2016) Greg W. Rouse et al.   NATURE

Xenacoelomorpha is the sister group to Nephrozoa

(2016) Johanna Taylor Cannon et al.   NATURE

Notes on the birth–death prior with fossil calibrations for Bayesian estimation of species divergence times

(2016) Mario dos Reis   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Sterol and genomic analyses validate the sponge biomarker hypothesis

(2016) David A. Gold et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

The origin of the animals and a ‘Savannah’ hypothesis for early bilaterian evolution

(2015) Graham E. Budd et al.   BIOLOGICAL REVIEWS

Spiralian Phylogeny Informs the Evolution of Microscopic Lineages

(2015) Christopher E. Laumer et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Uncertainty in the Timing of Origin of Animals and the Limits of Precision in Molecular Timescales

(2015) Mario dos Reis et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Phylogenomic Insights into Animal Evolution

(2015) Maximilian J. Telford et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Early animal evolution and the origins of nervous systems

(2015) G. E. Budd   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Ecological innovations in the Cambrian and the origins of the crown group phyla

(2015) Graham E. Budd et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Not-so-early bursts and the dynamic nature of morphological diversification

(2015) Graham J. Slater   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Total-Evidence Dating under the Fossilized Birth–Death Process

(2015) Chi Zhang et al.   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY

Heterogeneous Rates of Molecular Evolution and Diversification Could Explain the Triassic Age Estimate for Angiosperms

(2015) Jeremy M. Beaulieu et al.   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY

Between a Rock and a Hard Place: Applications of the “Molecular Clock” in Systematic Biology

(2015) Charles D. Bell   SYSTEMATIC BOTANY

Assignment of Calibration Information to Deeper Phylogenetic Nodes is More Effective in Obtaining Precise and Accurate Divergence Time Estimates

(2014) Beatriz Mello et al.   Evolutionary Bioinformatics

Tree imbalance causes a bias in phylogenetic estimation of evolutionary timescales using heterochronous sequences

(2014) David Duchêne et al.   Molecular Ecology Resources

The fossilized birth-death process for coherent calibration of divergence-time estimates

(2014) T. A. Heath et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Calibration uncertainty in molecular dating analyses: there is no substitute for the prior evaluation of time priors

(2014) R. C. M. Warnock et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Ancient dates or accelerated rates? Morphological clocks and the antiquity of placental mammals

(2014) R. M. D. Beck et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Calibrated Birth–Death Phylogenetic Time-Tree Priors for Bayesian Inference

(2014) Joseph Heled et al.   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY

Why does diversification slow down?

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

Rates of Phenotypic and Genomic Evolution during the Cambrian Explosion

(2013) Michael S.Y. Lee et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

At the Origin of Animals: The Revolutionary Cambrian Fossil Record

(2013) Graham Budd   CURRENT GENOMICS

Oxygen, ecology, and the Cambrian radiation of animals

(2013) E. A. Sperling et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Birth–death models and coalescent point processes: The shape and probability of reconstructed phylogenies

(2013) Amaury Lambert et al.   THEORETICAL POPULATION BIOLOGY

A sclerite-bearing stem group entoproct from the early Cambrian and its implications

(2013) Zhifei Zhang et al.   Scientific Reports

A new assemblage of juvenile Ediacaran fronds from the Drook Formation, Newfoundland

(2012) Alexander G. Liu et al.   JOURNAL OF THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY

Trees of Unusual Size: Biased Inference of Early Bursts from Large Molecular Phylogenies

(2012) Matthew W. Pennell et al.   PLoS One

Trace fossil evidence for Ediacaran bilaterian animals with complex behaviors

(2012) Zhe Chen et al.   PRECAMBRIAN RESEARCH

Exploring uncertainty in the calibration of the molecular clock

(2011) R. C. M. Warnock et al.   Biology Letters

Eoandromeda and the origin of Ctenophora

(2011) Feng Tang et al.   EVOLUTION & DEVELOPMENT

Chronology of early Cambrian biomineralization

(2011) ARTEM KOUCHINSKY et al.   GEOLOGICAL MAGAZINE

Inferring Speciation and Extinction Rates under Different Sampling Schemes

(2011) S. Hohna et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Establishing a time-scale for plant evolution

(2011) John T. Clarke et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

The genome as a life-history character: why rate of molecular evolution varies between mammal species

(2011) L. Bromham   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

The Cambrian Conundrum: Early Divergence and Later Ecological Success in the Early History of Animals

(2011) D. H. Erwin et al.   SCIENCE

Calibrated Tree Priors for Relaxed Phylogenetics and Divergence Time Estimation

(2011) Joseph Heled et al.   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY

Best Practices for Justifying Fossil Calibrations

(2011) James F. Parham et al.   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY

phytools: an R package for phylogenetic comparative biology (and other things)

(2011) Liam J. Revell   Methods in Ecology and Evolution

A Fresh Look at Dickinsonia: Removing It from Vendobionta

(2010) ZHANG Xingliang et al.   ACTA GEOLOGICA SINICA-ENGLISH EDITION

The earliest Cambrian record of animals and ocean geochemical change

(2010) A. C. Maloof et al.   GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA BULLETIN

First evidence for locomotion in the Ediacara biota from the 565 Ma Mistaken Point Formation, Newfoundland

(2010) Alexander G. Liu et al.   GEOLOGY

A corset-like fossil from the Cambrian Sirius Passet Lagerstätte of North Greenland and its implications for cycloneuralian evolution

(2010) John S. Peel   JOURNAL OF PALEONTOLOGY

Interpreting the γ Statistic in Phylogenetic Diversification Rate Studies: A Rate Decrease Does Not Necessarily Indicate an Early Burst

(2010) James A. Fordyce   PLoS One

Nymphalid butterflies diversify following near demise at the Cretaceous/Tertiary boundary

(2009) N. Wahlberg et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Density-dependent diversification in North American wood warblers

(2008) D. L Rabosky et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Density-Dependent Cladogenesis in Birds

(2008) Albert B Phillimore et al.   PLOS BIOLOGY