Macroevolutionary inferences from primate phylogeny.

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We apply new statistical methods to a recent estimate of the phylogeny of all living primate species to test a range of models of cladogenesis. Null models in which probabilities of speciation and extinction do not differ among contemporaneous lineages are not consistent with the phylogeny. We present evidence that the net rate of cladogenesis (speciation rate minus extinction rate) increased in the lineage...

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