BeckLee {dispRity}

Beck and Lee 2014 datasets

Description

Example datasets from Beck and Lee 2014.

Format

three matrices and one phylogenetic tree.

Details

• BeckLee_tree A phylogenetic tree with 50 living and fossil taxa

• BeckLee_mat50 The ordinated matrix based on the 50 taxa cladistic distances

• BeckLee_mat99 The ordinated matrix based on the 50 taxa + 49 nodes cladistic distances

• BeckLee_ages A list of first and last occurrence data for fossil taxa

• BeckLee_disparity a dispRity object with estimated sum of variances in 120 time bins, boostrapped 100 times from the Beck and Lee data

References

Beck RMD & Lee MSY. 2014. Ancient dates or accelerated rates? Morphological clocks and the antiquity of placental mammals. Proc. R. Soc. B 2014 281 20141278; DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2014.1278

See Also

BeckLee_disparity disparity