PyRate is a program to estimate speciation, extinction, and preservation rates from fossil occurrence data using a Bayesian framework.
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PyRate is a program to estimate speciation, extinction, and preservation rates from fossil occurrence data using a Bayesian framework.
Open Software for Teaching Evolutionary Biology at Multiple Scales Through Virtual Inquiries
paleobuddy: an R package for simulating diversification dynamics, fossil records and phylogenies in R.
Bayesian inference of trait evolution under a “fossilized” Brownian motion.
A Julia interface to the Paleobiology Database (PBDB) data service.
Data and analyses used in Moon & Stubbs, Communications Biology doi:10.1038/s42003-020-0779-6
Data and code for "The Cultural Macroevolution of Arcade Video Games: Innovation, Collaboration, and Collapse"
Data, code & figures used to assess global patterns of potential thermal niche filling
Galapagos Islands Testudinidae Macroevolution (GITM)
Benchmarks Physics-Informed Neural ODEs vs. Fine-Tuned Foundation Models (Chronos) on Cenozoic fossil data. Includes a Random Forest analysis of the Lilliput Effect to test climate vs. taphonomy drivers. Results show Neural ODEs outperform generic Transformers (MSE 13.05) in reconstructing deep-time evolutionary history.
Paper - A novel function of banded stripes to prevent cannibalism in snake-eating snakes
Interactive 3D phylogenetic tree visualizer for continuous trait evolution and supplied ancestral-state estimates; standalone WebGL2 HTML.
Infer phylogeny parameters with Deep Learning.
Macroevolutionary analyses of the Monodoreae tribe (Annonaceae) 🧬🌳🌍
Supplementary R code for analyses in "Rates of passerine body plan evolution in time and space"
R scripts to explore global patterns of diversificatio and species richness of current and present-natural mammals
This repository provides research data and source code for reproducing the computational analysis reported in the manuscript "Community-level functional stability in East African herbivores amid major environmental change"
Supplementary code and data for "The paradox of predictability"
R codes for simulating and detecting punctuated evolution in any clades, from dinosaurs to viruses
Paper - Best practices for building and curating databases for comparative analyses
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