A new method for testing evolutionary rate variation and shifts in phenotypic evolution

A major shift in diversification rate helps explain macroevolutionary patterns in primate species diversity

(2017) Jessica H. Arbour et al.   EVOLUTION

Mega-evolutionary dynamics of the adaptive radiation of birds

(2017) Christopher R. Cooney et al.   NATURE

Accelerated body size evolution during cold climatic periods in the Cenozoic

(2017) Julien Clavel et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Island Rule, quantitative genetics and brain–body size evolution in Homo floresiensis

(2017) José Alexandre Felizola Diniz-Filho et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Little evidence for enhanced phenotypic evolution in early teleosts relative to their living fossil sister group

(2016) John T. Clarke et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

RPANDA: an R package for macroevolutionary analyses on phylogenetic trees

(2016) Hélène Morlon et al.   Methods in Ecology and Evolution

An early Oligocene fossil demonstrates treeshrews are slowly evolving “living fossils”

(2016) Qiang Li et al.   Scientific Reports

Coupling of diversification and pH adaptation during the evolution of terrestrial Thaumarchaeota

(2015) Cécile Gubry-Rangin et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Ancestral State Reconstruction, Rate Heterogeneity, and the Evolution of Reptile Viviparity

(2015) Benedict King et al.   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY

RidgeRace: ridge regression for continuous ancestral character estimation on phylogenetic trees

(2014) Christina Kratsch et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

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

(2014) Daniel L. Rabosky   PLoS One

Sustained miniaturization and anatomical innovation in the dinosaurian ancestors of birds

(2014) M. S. Y. Lee et al.   SCIENCE

Morphological Clocks in Paleontology, and a Mid-Cretaceous Origin of Crown Aves

(2014) M. S. Y. Lee et al.   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY

Analysis and Visualization of Complex Macroevolutionary Dynamics: An Example from Australian Scincid Lizards

(2014) Daniel L. Rabosky et al.   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY

Competition and constraint drove Cope's rule in the evolution of giant flying reptiles

(2014) Roger B. J. Benson et al.   Nature Communications

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

Key innovations and island colonization as engines of evolutionary diversification: a comparative test with the Australasian diplodactyloid geckos

(2013) J. Garcia-Porta et al.   JOURNAL OF EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Effects of allometry, productivity and lifestyle on rates and limits of body size evolution

(2013) J. G. Okie et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Quantifying and Comparing Phylogenetic Evolutionary Rates for Shape and Other High-Dimensional Phenotypic Data

(2013) Dean C. Adams   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY

Darwinian shortfalls in biodiversity conservation

(2013) José Alexandre F. Diniz-Filho et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

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

Evolutionary Inferences from Phylogenies: A Review of Methods

(2012) Brian C. O'Meara   Annual Review of Ecology Evolution and Systematics

INTEGRATING FOSSILS WITH MOLECULAR PHYLOGENIES IMPROVES INFERENCE OF TRAIT EVOLUTION

(2012) Graham J. Slater et al.   EVOLUTION

Measuring rates of phenotypic evolution and the inseparability of tempo and mode

(2012) Gene Hunt   PALEOBIOLOGY

Hominin cognitive evolution: identifying patterns and processes in the fossil and archaeological record

(2012) S. Shultz et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Limb-Bone Scaling Indicates Diverse Stance and Gait in Quadrupedal Ornithischian Dinosaurs

(2012) Susannah C. R. Maidment et al.   PLoS One

Body Size Evolution in Extant Oryzomyini Rodents: Cope's Rule or Miniaturization?

(2012) Jorge Avaria-Llautureo et al.   PLoS One

Comparing Evolutionary Rates for Different Phenotypic Traits on a Phylogeny Using Likelihood

(2012) Dean C. Adams   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY

THE TEMPO AND MODE OF EVOLUTION: BODY SIZES OF ISLAND MAMMALS

(2011) Pasquale Raia et al.   EVOLUTION

A NEW PHYLOGENETIC METHOD FOR IDENTIFYING EXCEPTIONAL PHENOTYPIC DIVERSIFICATION

(2011) Liam J. Revell et al.   EVOLUTION

IDENTIFYING HETEROGENEITY IN RATES OF MORPHOLOGICAL EVOLUTION: DISCRETE CHARACTER CHANGE IN THE EVOLUTION OF LUNGFISH (SARCOPTERYGII; DIPNOI)

(2011) Graeme T. Lloyd et al.   EVOLUTION

A NOVEL COMPARATIVE METHOD FOR IDENTIFYING SHIFTS IN THE RATE OF CHARACTER EVOLUTION ON TREES

(2011) Jonathan M. Eastman et al.   EVOLUTION

MAMMALS EVOLVE FASTER ON SMALLER ISLANDS

(2011) Virginie Millien   EVOLUTION

MOTMOT: models of trait macroevolution on trees

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

Biology of the sauropod dinosaurs: the evolution of gigantism

(2010) P. Martin Sander et al.   BIOLOGICAL REVIEWS

ECOLOGICAL OPPORTUNITY AND THE RATE OF MORPHOLOGICAL EVOLUTION IN THE DIVERSIFICATION OF GREATER ANTILLEAN ANOLES

(2010) D. Luke Mahler et al.   EVOLUTION

Slaying dragons: limited evidence for unusual body size evolution on islands

(2010) Shai Meiri et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY

PISCIVORY LIMITS DIVERSIFICATION OF FEEDING MORPHOLOGY IN CENTRARCHID FISHES

(2009) David C. Collar et al.   EVOLUTION

BODY SIZE DIVERSIFICATION INANOLIS: NOVEL ENVIRONMENT AND ISLAND EFFECTS

(2009) Gavin H. Thomas et al.   EVOLUTION

The Tempo and Mode of Three‐Dimensional Morphological Evolution in Male Reproductive Structures

(2008) Mark A. McPeek et al.   AMERICAN NATURALIST

The first 50 Myr of dinosaur evolution: macroevolutionary pattern and morphological disparity

(2008) S. L. Brusatte et al.   Biology Letters

The Stasis and Possible Patterns of Selection in Evolution of a Group of Related Species from the Bat Genus Myotis (Chiroptera, Vespertilionidae)

(2008) Igor Dzeverin   JOURNAL OF MAMMALIAN EVOLUTION

Phylogenetic Signal, Evolutionary Process, and Rate

(2008) Liam J. Revell et al.   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY