Practical Guide and Review of Fossil Tip-Dating in Phylogenetics.

ABSTRACT: Phylogenetic tip-dating has been and still is revolutionizing evolutionary biology in several ways. Fossil tip-dating, where fossils are placed into a phylogeny as tips based on morphological and/or molecular character information, provides a more principled approach to infer time-calibrated phylogenies compared with node-dating. Additionally, phylogenetic trees with fossils as tips become more and more important to elucidate evolutionary processes in macroevolutionary studies (e.g., deciphering diversification patterns and directional phenotypic evolution). Fossil tip-dating is slowly gathering popularity in empirical applications and has progressed substantially since its first demonstration in 2011, with respect to improved statistical models, software, and data sets. Nevertheless, exec

SUBMITTER: Heckeberg NS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12805671 | biostudies-literature | 2026 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature