R. M. D. Beck

Comparison of dental topography of marmosets and tamarins (Callitrichidae) to other platyrrhine primates using a novel freeware pipeline

The paper presents a freeware pipeline for dental topographic analysis of primate teeth, showing it can accurately classify diet based on tooth shape and size, with improved accuracy when including molar size.

Total evidence tip-dating phylogeny of platyrrhine primates and 27 well-justified fossil calibrations for primate divergences

The paper presents tip-dating analyses of platyrrhine primates with 27 fossil calibrations for primate divergences, estimating divergence times and identifying key fossil placements.

Global elongation and high shape flexibility as an evolutionary hypothesis of accommodating mammalian brains into skulls

The paper analyzes 3D cranial endocasts of marsupials to show brain shape variation is more flexible and less tied to function than previously thought.

Bayesian Tip-dated Phylogenetics: Topological Effects, Stratigraphic Fit and the Early Evolution of Mammals

This paper evaluates Bayesian tip-dating in phylogenetics, showing it produces different topologies than other methods and better fits stratigraphy, with specific findings on mammalian evolution.

Improvements in the fossil record may largely resolve the conflict between morphological and molecular estimates of mammal phylogeny

The paper tests if improving the fossil record can resolve conflicts between morphological and molecular mammal phylogenies by simulating ancestral morphologies and analyzing their impact on morphological data.