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

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

(2017) Jessica H. Arbour et al.   EVOLUTION

Estimating Age-Dependent Extinction: Contrasting Evidence from Fossils and Phylogenies

(2017) Oskar Hagen et al.   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY

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

Estimates of the magnitudes of major marine mass extinctions in earth history

(2016) Steven M. Stanley   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

Challenges in the estimation of extinction from molecular phylogenies: A response to Beaulieu and O'Meara

(2015) Daniel L. Rabosky   EVOLUTION

Extinction can be estimated from moderately sized molecular phylogenies

(2015) Jeremy M. Beaulieu et al.   EVOLUTION

A comprehensive phylogeny of birds (Aves) using targeted next-generation DNA sequencing

(2015) Richard O. Prum et al.   NATURE

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

How well can the exponential-growth coalescent approximate constant-rate birth-death population dynamics?

(2015) T. Stadler et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Diversification events and the effects of mass extinctions on Crocodyliformes evolutionary history: Figure 1.

(2015) Mario Bronzati et al.   Royal Society Open Science

Accelerated modern human-induced species losses: Entering the sixth mass extinction

(2015) G. Ceballos et al.   Science Advances

On Age and Species Richness of Higher Taxa

(2014) Tanja Stadler et al.   AMERICAN NATURALIST

Estimating the normal background rate of species extinction

(2014) Jurriaan M. De Vos et al.   CONSERVATION BIOLOGY

Accurate and precise estimates of origination and extinction rates

(2014) John Alroy   PALEOBIOLOGY

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

Bayesian Inference of Sampled Ancestor Trees for Epidemiology and Fossil Calibration

(2014) Alexandra Gavryushkina et al.   PLoS Computational Biology

Speciation Rates Decline through Time in Individual-Based Models of Speciation and Extinction

(2013) Shaopeng Wang et al.   AMERICAN NATURALIST

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

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

Rates of Phenotypic and Genomic Evolution during the Cambrian Explosion

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

Recovering speciation and extinction dynamics based on phylogenies

(2013) T. Stadler   JOURNAL OF EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Causes of the Cambrian Explosion

(2013) M. P. Smith et al.   SCIENCE

The global diversity of birds in space and time

(2012) W. Jetz et al.   NATURE

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

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

Estimating Speciation and Extinction Rates for Phylogenies of Higher Taxa

(2012) Tanja Stadler et al.   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY

The meaning of birth and death (in macroevolutionary birth-death models)

(2011) T. H. G. Ezard et al.   Biology Letters

Diversification and the rate of molecular evolution: no evidence of a link in mammals

(2011) Xavier Goldie et al.   BMC EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Historical bird and terrestrial mammal extinction rates and causes

(2011) Craig Loehle et al.   DIVERSITY AND DISTRIBUTIONS

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

(2011) Graeme T. Lloyd et al.   EVOLUTION

RATES OF MORPHOLOGICAL EVOLUTION ARE CORRELATED WITH SPECIES RICHNESS IN SALAMANDERS

(2011) Daniel L. Rabosky et al.   EVOLUTION

Distribution of branch lengths and phylogenetic diversity under homogeneous speciation models

(2011) Tanja Stadler et al.   JOURNAL OF THEORETICAL BIOLOGY

Has the Earth’s sixth mass extinction already arrived?

(2011) Anthony D. Barnosky et al.   NATURE

A role for chance in marine recovery from the end-Cretaceous extinction

(2011) Pincelli M. Hull et al.   Nature Geoscience

Mass extinction of birds at the Cretaceous-Paleogene (K-Pg) boundary

(2011) N. R. Longrich et al.   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

Branch Lengths on Birth–Death Trees and the Expected Loss of Phylogenetic Diversity

(2011) Arne Mooers et al.   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY

Simulating Trees with a Fixed Number of Extant Species

(2011) Tanja Stadler   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY

Prolonging the Past Counteracts the Pull of the Present: Protracted Speciation Can Explain Observed Slowdowns in Diversification

(2011) Rampal S. Etienne et al.   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY

Sampling-through-time in birth–death trees

(2010) Tanja Stadler   JOURNAL OF THEORETICAL BIOLOGY

Mutation rate is linked to diversification in birds

(2010) R. Lanfear et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Explosive morphological diversification of spiny-finned teleost fishes in the aftermath of the end-Cretaceous extinction

(2010) M. Friedman   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Slowdowns in Diversification Rates from Real Phylogenies May Not be Real

(2010) Natalie Cusimano et al.   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY

EXTINCTION RATES SHOULD NOT BE ESTIMATED FROM MOLECULAR PHYLOGENIES

(2009) Daniel L. Rabosky   EVOLUTION

Are rates of species diversification correlated with rates of morphological evolution?

(2009) D. C. Adams et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

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 Cladogenesis in Birds

(2008) Albert B Phillimore et al.   PLOS BIOLOGY