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Table 1 Model parameters and support estimated on 50 rescaled trees (mean value ± standard deviation). White noise was fitted with geiger, OU was fitted with mvMORPH. For all the other models, the log-likelihood (lnL) and parameters of all other fitted models were practically identical between geiger and mvMORPH; the mvMORPH results are shown here. θ0, root state; trend, trend parameters. See the methods section for explanation of the other parameters

From: On trends and patterns in macroevolution: Williston’s law and the branchiostegal series of extant and extinct osteichthyans

 

θ0

θ1

σ2

β

α

trend

lnL

AIC

Akaike weight

BM

5.55 ± 0.09

100.73 ± 7.23

− 1374.41 ± 17.90

2752.83

2.45 × 10−53

EB

5.80 ± 0.09

4708.20 ± 1453.58

−5.04 ± 0.30

− 1252.25 ± 16.82

2510.55

1.00

OU

5.18 ± 0.14

7.49 ± 0.17

141.84 ± 15.30

2.98 ± 0.44

− 1350.80 ± 12.42

2709.67

5.80 × 10−44

Trend

5.60 ± 0.11

100.71 ± 7.24

−0.75 ± 0.62

−1374.35 ± 17.85

2754.75

9.40 × 10−54

White noise

7.48 ± 0.00

18.05 ± 0.00

− 1449.92 ± 0.00

2903.84

3.97 × 10−86