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Background reading list
Matrix Algebra
Matrix algebra primer
Matrix Algebra Exercise
Measurement Theory
Houle et al. 2011
Measurement and meaning in biology
Quantitative Genetics
Lande. 1976.
Natural selection and random genetic drift in phenotypic evolution.
Lande & Arnold. 1983.
The measurement of selection on correlated characters.
Arnold et al. 2001.
The adaptive landscape as a conceptual bridge between micro- and macroevolution
QG to Macroevolution: The Paradox of stasis/predictability
Schluter. 1996.
Adaptive radiation along genetic lines of least resistance
Hansen & Houle. 2004.
Evolvability, stabilizing selection & the problem of stasis
Estes & Arnold. 2007.
Resolving the paradox of stasis: Models with stabilizing selection explain evolutionary divergence on all timescales
Uyeda et al. 2011.
The million year wait for macroevolutionary bursts
Houle et al. 2017.
Mutation predicts 40 million years of fly wing evolution
Sztepanacz & Houle. 2021.
Allometry constrains the evolution of sexual dimorphism in Drosophila across 33 million years of divergence
McGlothlin et al. 2018.
Adaptive radiation along a deeply conserved genetic line of least resistance in Anolis lizards
Machado et al. 2023.
Rules of teeth development align microevolution with macroevolution in extant and extinct primates
Tsuboi et al. 2024.
The paradox of predictability provides a bridge between micro-and macroevolution
Phylogenetic Comparative Methods
Felsenstein. 1985.
Phylogenies & the comparative method
Hansen. 1997.
Stabilizing selection & the comparative analysis of adaptation
Butler & King. 2004.
Phylogenetic comparative analysis: A modeling approach for adaptive evolution
Hansen et al. 2008.
A comparative method for studying adaptation to a randomly evolving environment
O’Meara. 2012.
Evolutionary inferences from phylogenies: A review of methods
Beaulieu et al. 2012.
Modeling stabilizing selection: Expanding the Ornstein-Uhlenbeck model of adaptive evolution
Uyeda & Harmon. 2014.
A novel Bayesian method for inferring and interpreting the dynamics of adaptive landscapes from phylogenetic comparative data
Uyeda et al. 2018.
Rethinking phylogenetic comparative methods
Bartsozek et al. 2023.
Model selection performance in PCMs under multivariate Ornstein–Uhlenbeck models of trait evolution