Caleb Charpentier

Sep 9, 2023 | besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com | Diego Porto |Finnish Museum |Sergei Tarasov |Caleb Charpentier

1 INTRODUCTION Biological realism in models of trait evolution—accurate modelling of biological processes underlying trait changes—is often an overlooked but important feature in phylogenetic modelling (Boyko & Beaulieu, 2021). For example, it is common in statistical phylogenetics to treat each character as an independent realization of the evolutionary process. While this assumption may be questionable for molecular data, it is certainly dubious for morphological data.