Patterns in Phylogenetic Tree Balance With Variable and Evolving Speciation Rates
Patterns in Phylogenetic Tree Balance With Variable and Evolving Speciation Rates is a scholarly work, published in 1996 in ''Evolution''. The main subjects of the publication include clade, speciation, evolution of mammals, conservation biology, biology, evolutionary biology, macroevolution, ecology, phylogenetic tree, trait, Phylogenetic comparative methods, genetic algorithm, population genetics, mutation rate, tree, and Variation (astronomy). Author demonstrate that when speciation rates depend on an evolving trait of individuals, and are therefore "heritable" along evolutionary lineages, the resulting phylogenies become imbalanced.