Article
Analyzing Disparity and Rates of Morphological Evolution with Model-Based Phylogenetic Comparative Methods.
Systematic biology - 10 Aug 2022
Hansen Thomas F, Bolstad Geir H, Tsuboi Masahito
Abstract excerpt
Understanding variation in rates of evolution and morphological disparity is a goal of macroevolutionary research. In a phylogenetic comparative methods framework, we present three explicit models for linking the rate of evolution of a trait to the state of another evolving trait. This allows testing hypotheses about causal influences on rates of phenotypic evolution with phylogenetic comparative data. We develop...
Topics
- Animals
- Beak
- Biological Evolution
- Birds
- Phenotype
- Phylogeny