Simultaneous detection of macroevolutionary patterns in phenotypic means and rate of change with and within phylogenetic trees including extinct species.

PLoS One · 2019 · PMC6347132 · PMID 30682060

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Ideally, when a positive trend in the rate of evolution towards the present applies ( Fig 1 , middle), the slope of the rates versus age regression would be larger than any BM slopes ( Fig 2 ).

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