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AUTHOR
Michael J. Donoghue
Diversification in evolutionary arenas - assessment and synthesis
Abstract Understanding how and why rates of evolutionary diversification vary is a central issue in evolutionary biology and ecology. The concept of adaptive radiation has attracted much interest, but is metaphorical and verbal in nature, making it difficult to quantitatively compare different evolutionary lineages or geographic regions. In addition, the causes of evolutionary stasis are relatively neglected. Here we review the central concepts in the evolutionary diversification literature and bring these together by proposing a general framework for estimating rates of diversification and quantifying their underlying dynamics, which can be applied across clades and regions and across spat…
Walter Zimmermann and the Growth of Phylogenetic Theory
seminal theoretical paper, "Arbeitsweise der botanischen Phylogenetik und anderer Gruppierungswissenschaften" ("Methods of botanical phylogenetics and other grouping sciences"), first published in 1931. In this paper, Zimmermann clearly ex? pressed many of the underlying principles of phylogenetic systematics?ideas that were later taken up by Hennig and formed the core of his theory. Zimmermann also focused attention on several basic meth?
Diversification in evolutionary arenas – assessment and synthesis
Understanding how and why rates of evolutionary diversification vary is a central issue in evolutionary biology, ecology and biogeography. The concept of adaptive radiation has attracted much interest, but is metaphorical and verbal in nature, making it difficult to quantitatively compare different evolutionary lineages or geographic regions. In addition, the causes of evolutionary stasis are relatively neglected. Here we review the central concepts in the evolutionary diversification literature and bring these together by proposing a general framework for studying rates of diversification and quantifying their underlying dynamics, which can be applied across clades and regions and across s…