Reposted by Suman Neupane
While ignoring phylogenetic info 🙈🌳: what do patterns of trait variation tell us about an underlying diversification process?
New theoretical work by postdoc @albertchristian.bsky.social detailing how SSE parameter "rulesets" generate particular state freq outcomes
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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On the mapping between evolutionary scenarios and governing rules in state-dependent speciation-extinction models
Biologists often wish to explain why one trait is more common than its alternatives among species in a clade: is it due to asymmetries in diversification or character evolution processes? State-depend...
