Methods and Code

While I do dabble in the more "traditional" aspects of palaeontology (including specimen descriptions and the suchlike), the bulk of my work is in the quantitative aspects of palaeontology: large-scale evolutionary studies of diversity, biogeography and morphological evolution. Almost all this work is done in the programming language R. I have used methods designed and coded by others, written code to carry out the methods of others, and in recent years have started designing my own methods. This section of the website contains the codes I have written to carry out methods I have designed or used, as well as descriptions of the methods and tutorials for how to use the code. I haven't got everything up there yet, but I will continue to upload as time goes on. Let me know if there are any problems or bugs.

​Methods thus far available:
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Analysis of Constraint

​RAC Beta Diversity

Defining Bioregions

Forbes' Metric

Simulating Biogeography

Simulating Sampling-Corrected Diversity Estimates

Simulating Tooth-Row Evolution

Phylogenetic Analysis of Pelycosaurs