Timescales are of fundamental importance to evolutionary biology as they facilitate hypothesis tests of historical evolutionary processes. Through the incorporation of fossil occurrence data, the ...

Investigating how an ancestral population diverges to give rise to distinct subpopulations remains a fundamental pursuit in population genetics. There is broad consensus for the ‘Out-of-Africa’ ...

Five decades have passed since Emile Zuckerkandl and Linus Pauling first proposed the molecular clock hypothesis. The molecular clock has become an essential tool in evolutionary biology, from ...

In Bayesian divergence time estimation methods, incorporating calibrating information from the fossil record is commonly done by assigning prior densities to ancestral nodes in the tree. Calibration ...