Jeremy M. Beaulieu

Nov 14, 2024 | onlinelibrary.wiley.com | Gregory W Stull |Jun Wen |Jeremy M. Beaulieu |Charles Tomo Parins-Fukuchi

1 Introduction Phenotypic traits often covary. The causes, consequences, and biological significance of trait covariation are complex and manifest distinct patterns across levels of temporal and biological scales. Trait covariation provides a numeric basis for partitioning the phenotype into semi-autonomous regions, where suites of traits covary internally but are independent of one another. This is referred to as modularity (Wagner, Pavlicev, and Cheverud 2007).

Sep 13, 2024 | journals.plos.org | Brian O’Meara |Jeremy M. Beaulieu

Citation: O’Meara BC, Beaulieu JM (2024) Noise leads to the perceived increase in evolutionary rates over short time scales. PLoS Comput Biol 20(9): e1012458. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1012458Editor: Iddo Friedberg, Iowa State University College of Veterinary Medicine, UNITED STATES OF AMERICAReceived: July 22, 2024; Accepted: September 4, 2024; Published: September 13, 2024Copyright: © 2024 O’Meara, Beaulieu.

Aug 28, 2024 | nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com | Stephen Smith |Jeremy M. Beaulieu

During the Reformations of the 16th and 17th centuries, populist movements like the Reformation Iconoclasts attempted to strip away the superfluous elements of Christian worship to move closer to the truth (Fig. 1). We draw on this analogy to discuss divergence-times of angiosperms for two purposes.

Mar 4, 2024 | biorxiv.org | Brian O’Meara |Jeremy M. Beaulieu

AbstractInterpretations of biodiversity patterns across timescales necessarily assume that fundamental processes of evolution do not change over time. A recurring pattern across a variety of biological datasets, from genomes to the fossil record, has shown evolutionary rates increasing toward the present or over shorter time scales, however, indicating potentially fundamental but unknown processes unifying evolutionary timescales.