Paleontology and the comparative method: Ancestral node reconstructions versus observed node values

American Naturalist

Volumn 157, Issue 6, 2001, Pages 596-609

  Polly, P D ^a  

^a QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Brownian motion; Carnivora; Independent contrasts; Phylogenetically based statistical methods; Squared change parsimony

Indexed keywords

EVOLUTION; PALEONTOLOGY; RECONSTRUCTION;

EID: 0034970707     PISSN: 00030147     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/320622     Document Type: Article

References (51)

1. All-time giants: The largest animals and their problems
2. New species of Batodonoides (Lipotyphla, Geolabididae) from the early Eocene of Wyoming: Smallest known mammal?
3. Morphological, crystallographic, and stratigraphic data in cladistic analyses of blastoid phylogeny
4. Random walk and the existence of evolutionary rates
5. Distribution and stratigraphic correlation of Upper Paleocene and Lower Eocene fossil mammal and plant localities of the Fort Union, Willwood, and Tatman Formations, southern Bighorn Basin, Wyoming
6. Magnetic polarity stratigraphy and biostratigraphy of Paleocene and lower Eocene continental deposits Clark's Fork Basin, Wyoming
7. Chronology of the Wasatchian land-mammal age (Early Eocene): Magnetostratigraphic results form the McCullough Peaks section, northern Bighorn Basin, Wyoming
8. Maximum-likelihood estimation of evolutionary trees from continuous characters
9. Phylogenies and the comparative method
10. Stratigraphic parsimony
11. Stratocladistics: Morphological and temporal patterns and their relation to phylogenetic process
12. Phylogeny of early Tertiary Carnivora, with a description of a new species of Protictis from the middle Eocene of northwestern Wyoming
13. Reconstructing phylogeny with and without temporal data
14. New primitive carnivorans (Mammalia) from the Paleocene of western Canada, and their bearing on the relationships of the order
15. Evidence for rapid climate change in North America during the latest Paleocene thermal maximum: Oxygen isotope compositions of biogenic phosphate from the Bighorn Basin (Wyoming)
16. Using the past to predict the present: Confidence intervals for regression equations in phylogenetic comparative methods
17. Phylogenetic analysis of covariance by computer simulation
18. Reconstructing ancestral trait values using squared-change parsimony: Plasma osmolarity at the origin of amniotes
19. An introduction to phylogenetically based statistical methods, with a new method for confidence intervals on ancestral values
20. The Bighorn Basin - Why is it so important?
21. Rates of evolution: Effects of time and temporal scaling
22. Systematics and evolution of early Eocene Perissodactyla (Mammalia) in the Clarks Fork Basin, Wyoming
23. Quantification and comparison of evolutionary rates
24. Rates of evolution in Paleocene-Eocene mammals of the Clarks Fork Basin, Wyoming, and a comparison with Neogene Siwalik lineages of Pakistan
25. Systematics of Paleocene Viverravidae (Mammalia, Carnivora) in the Bighorn and Clark's Fork Basin, Wyoming
26. Suggestions as to quantitative measurements of rates of evolution
27. Phylogenetic extinction rates and comparative methodology
28. Postcranial morphology and locomotor behavior of two early Eocene miacoid carnivorans, Vulpavus and Didymictis
29. Perspective: The pace of modern life: Measuring rates of contemporary microevolution
30. Phylogenetic relationships within the aeluroid Carnivora and implications of their temporal and geographic distribution
31. Stable isotope stratigraphy and paleoclimatology of the Paleogene Bighorn Basin (Wyoming, U.S.A.)
32. Analysis of mammalian communities from the late Eocene and Oligocene of southern France
33. Squared-change parsimony reconstructions of ancestral states for continuous-valued characters on a phylogenetic tree
34. A microevolutionary link between phylogenies and comparative data
35. Phylogenies and the comparative method: A general approach to incorporating phylogenetic information into the analysis of interspecific data
36. Estimating the ancestral states of a continuous-valued character using squared-change parsimony: An analytical solution
37. Ancestry and species definition in paleontology: A stratocladistic analysis of Paleocene-Eocene Viverravidae (Mammalia, Carnivora) from Wyoming
38. The Clarkforkian land-mammal age and mammalian faunal composition across the Paleocene-Eocene boundary
39. Likelihood of ancestor states in adaptive radiation
40. The species concept
41. A phylogenetic analysis and definition of the Carnivora