characters {EvoPhylo}

R Documentation

A morphological phylogenetic data matrix

Description

An example dataset of morphological characters for early tetrapodomorphs from Simões & Pierce (2021). This type of data would be used as input to get_gower_dist.

Usage

data("characters")

Format

A data frame with 178 observations (characters) on 43 columns (taxa).

References

Simões, T. R. and S. E. Pierce (2021). Sustained High Rates of Morphological Evolution During the Rise of Tetrapods. Nature Ecology & Evolution 5: 1403–1414.

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