Barido-Sottani Lab

Research focus

ERC Starting Grant · 2025

Using morphological information to accurately date phylogenies and understand past diversification dynamics

The fossil record provides crucial evidence to inform our study of evolution and past diversification processes. Recent methodological developments have allowed to integrate fossil species directly into the reconstruction of phylogenetic trees, providing more accurate estimates of the age of evolutionary events as well as speciation and extinction through time. However, the current methods fail to account for many of the specific characteristics of fossil samples compared to extant species. Genetic sequences are usually unavailable for fossils, so phylogenetic inferences including fossils rely on morphological characters. This morphological information interacts with other components of the…

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