When and where

This workshop took place on Friday 24th in a full day session, as part of the Evolution 2022 Conference.

This webpage serves as a repository of the materials used in the workshop. All the content and lectures are available so you can work on it at your own pace.

If you would like to see this workshop offered again, please contact us. We would love the opportunity to offer this workshop in Spanish too!

Schedule (

Part 1 – Paleobotany: incorporating fossils to our analyses

9-9:30 h – Introduction and general terminology in paleontology, paleobotany in particular

9:30-10 h – The challenges of plant fossils and scoring morphological traits

10-10:30 h – Statistical methods to cluster fossils with extant taxa

10:30-10:45h – Coffee Break

10:45-11:45 h – Practice applying NMDS in R

11:45-13 h Lunch / open practice

Part 2 – Bayesian Inference and divergence-time estimation

13-14:30 h – Lecture

Phylogenetic inference in a bayesian framework
Divergence-time estimation
Total Evidence Dating in RevBayes
The TED graphical model

14:30-14:45 h – Coffee Break

14:45-17 h – Practice using RevBayes to estimate divergence times