While various sources of evidence suggest that speciation and perhaps also extinction rates decline as a clade diversifies (summarized in [McPeek 2008][1]; [Rabosky & Lovette 2008 a ][2]), estimates of these rates from molecular phylogenies were for a long time limited to constant-rates processes ([
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