Challenges in estimating species' age from phylogenetic trees
Carlos Calderón del Cid,
Torsten Hauffe,
Juan D. Carrillo
et al.
Abstract:AimSpecies age, the elapsed time since origination, can give insight into how species longevity might influence eco‐evolutionary dynamics, which has been hypothesized to influence extinction risk. Traditionally, species' ages have been estimated from fossil records. However, numerous studies have recently used the branch lengths of time‐calibrated phylogenies as estimates of the ages of extant species. This approach poses problems because phylogenetic trees only contain direct information about species identit… Show more
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