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Hiding In Plain Sight: Accounting For Rate Heterogeneity In Trait Evolution Models, James Boyko
Hiding In Plain Sight: Accounting For Rate Heterogeneity In Trait Evolution Models, James Boyko
Graduate Theses and Dissertations
Within the last four decades, phylogenetic comparative methods have become the defacto method of analysis for comparative biologists. The availability of high-quality comparative datasets has been matched by an explosion of possible phylogenetic models. In large part, the efforts to increase the realism of phylogenetic comparative methods has been successful as evidenced by their widespread use. To this extensive literature, my contributions are modest. I have focused my dissertation work on two main themes. First, most phenotypic evolution is not independent of other phenotypes. Changes in a particular character may influence changes in another and modeling these characters in isolation …