C. Parins-Fukuchi

Gene duplications and phylogenomic conflict underlie major pulses of phenotypic evolution in gymnosperms

This study links genomic changes like WGD and gene duplication to phenotypic innovation and diversification in gymnosperms, showing ecological factors also drive diversification after angiosperms.

Phylogenomic conflict coincides with rapid morphological innovation

The paper examines the relationship between phylogenomic conflict and phenotypic innovation across six clades, finding a correlation between high conflict regions and elevated rates of phenotypic innovation.

Morphological and phylogeographic evidence for budding speciation: an example in hominins

This study applies a maximum-likelihood method to fossil hominin data to infer budding speciation and examines its phylogeographic implications.

Mosaic evolution, preadaptation, and the evolution of evolvability in apes

The paper analyzes evolutionary patterns in apes to show how shifts in modularity and reduced constraint drove phenotypic innovation and evolutionary flexibility.

Detecting mosaic patterns in macroevolutionary disparity

The paper introduces a framework to detect mosaic patterns in macroevolutionary disparity by partitioning multidimensional trait data into evolutionarily linked character suites.

Phylogeny, ancestors and anagenesis in the hominin fossil record

This study introduces a likelihoodist approach to reconstruct both cladogenetic and anagenetic relationships in hominin fossils, finding direct ancestral links in multiple lineages.

Bayesian placement of fossils on phylogenies from quantitative morphometric data

This paper introduces a Bayesian method to place fossils on phylogenies using quantitative morphometric data, improving the integration of fossil and extant data in evolutionary studies.

Use of Continuous Traits Can Improve Morphological Phylogenetics

This study evaluates using continuous traits instead of discrete characters for phylogenetic inference, showing higher accuracy under certain models.

Bayesian and likelihood phylogenetic reconstructions of morphological traits are not discordant when taking uncertainty into consideration. A comment on Puttick et al.

The paper critiques Puttick et al.'s conclusion that Bayesian methods are superior for phylogenetic reconstruction from morphological traits, arguing that their comparison was flawed and that ML and Bayesian methods are concordant when uncertainty is properly considered.