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Martin R. Smith

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Open access Aug 2026

Directional Biases in Morphological Evolution: Implications for Phylogenetic Models.

Even in the era of large molecular datasets, morphological evidence makes an integral contribution to reconstructing evolutionary history. Whereas traditional phylogenetic methods treat all morphological characters as if they evolve in the same way, we introduce a new analytical framework that explicitly distinguishes...

Martin R. Smith, Bo Yang · Systematic Biology · 0 citations

Open access Sep 2026

Which characters support which clades? Exploring the distribution of phylogenetic signal using mutual information.

Understanding which individual characters provide evidence for specific edges in a phylogeny is crucial when evaluating datasets of discrete phylogenetic characters, yet most support measures summarize evidence across all sites. I introduce clustering concordance, an information theoretic approach that quantifies the n...

Martin R. Smith · Systematic Biology · 0 citations