Five palaeobiological laws needed to understand the evolution of the living biota

The true tempo of evolutionary radiation and decline revealed on the Hawaiian archipelago

(2017) Jun Y. Lim et al.   NATURE

The uncertain role of diversity dependence in species diversification and the need to incorporate time-varying carrying capacities

(2016) Charles R. Marshall et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Greenhouse−icehouse transition in the Late Ordovician marks a step change in extinction regime in the marine plankton

(2016) James S. Crampton et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Eutherians experienced elevated evolutionary rates in the immediate aftermath of the Cretaceous–Palaeogene mass extinction

(2016) Thomas John Dixon Halliday et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Origin and diversification of living cycads: a cautionary tale on the impact of the branching process prior in Bayesian molecular dating

(2015) Fabien L Condamine et al.   BMC EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

The Origin and Diversification of Birds

(2015) Stephen L. Brusatte et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Revisiting the origin and diversification of vascular plants through a comprehensive Bayesian analysis of the fossil record

(2015) Daniele Silvestro et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

A more precise speciation and extinction rate estimator

(2015) John Alroy   PALEOBIOLOGY

Neither chimpanzee nor human,Ardipithecusreveals the surprising ancestry of both

(2015) Tim D. White et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

The role of clade competition in the diversification of North American canids

(2015) Daniele Silvestro et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Biological evidence supports an early and complex emergence of the Isthmus of Panama

(2015) Christine D. Bacon et al.   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

Phylogenetic approaches for studying diversification

(2014) Hélène Morlon   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Presence in Mediterranean hotspots and floral symmetry affect speciation and extinction rates in Proteaceae

(2014) Elisabeth Reyes et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Accurate and precise estimates of origination and extinction rates

(2014) John Alroy   PALEOBIOLOGY

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

(2014) Daniel L. Rabosky   PLoS One

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

Bayesian Estimation of Speciation and Extinction from Incomplete Fossil Occurrence Data

(2014) Daniele Silvestro et al.   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY

Recovering speciation and extinction dynamics based on phylogenies

(2013) T. Stadler   JOURNAL OF EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

How the Red Queen Drives Terrestrial Mammals to Extinction

(2013) T. B. Quental et al.   SCIENCE

The global diversity of birds in space and time

(2012) W. Jetz 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

Global Gradients in Vertebrate Diversity Predicted by Historical Area-Productivity Dynamics and Contemporary Environment

(2012) Walter Jetz et al.   PLOS BIOLOGY

Seeing the Forest for the Trees: The Limitations of Phylogenies in Comparative Biology

(2011) Jonathan B. Losos   AMERICAN NATURALIST

The Molecular Phylogenetic Signature of Clades in Decline

(2011) Tiago B. Quental et al.   PLoS One

Reconciling molecular phylogenies with the fossil record

(2011) H. Morlon et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Impacts of the Cretaceous Terrestrial Revolution and KPg Extinction on Mammal Diversification

(2011) R. W. Meredith et al.   SCIENCE

Phylogeny, niche conservatism and the latitudinal diversity gradient in mammals

(2010) L. B. Buckley et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

When Can Decreasing Diversification Rates Be Detected with Molecular Phylogenies and the Fossil Record?

(2010) Lee Hsiang Liow et al.   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY

Diversity dynamics: molecular phylogenies need the fossil record

(2010) Tiago B. Quental et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Radiation of Extant Cetaceans Driven by Restructuring of the Oceans

(2009) Mette E. Steeman et al.   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY