Patterns of mammalian diversification in recent evolutionary times: global tendencies and methodological issues.

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Changes in diversification patterns estimated from phylogenetic trees are an important source of information about the dynamics of evolution. To study the diversification of mammals, we reconstructed phylogenetic trees of 29 families and fitted both constant-rate and variable-rate models of diversification. In addition, we investigated the effect of clock models and phylogenetic reconstruction problems on...

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