Evolutionarily Stable Configurations: Functional Integration and the Evolution of Phenotypic Stability

By Günter P. Wagner, K. Schwenk. 2000

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Evolution of hypercarnivory: the effect of specialization on morphological and taxonomic diversity (2004, methodology): “For hesperocyonine canids, we used the published data of Wang (1994).”
Tempo and mode in evolution: phylogenetic inertia, adaptation and comparative methods (2002, methodology): “…by comparative methods alone because comparative data sets typically do not contain information on the (past) genetic architecture of the traits or the selective regimes to which they have been subjected (see also Leroi et al., 1994; Hansen, 1997; Wagner & Schwenk, 2000; Reeve & Sherman, 2001).”
TESTING FOR PHYLOGENETIC SIGNAL IN COMPARATIVE DATA: BEHAVIORAL TRAITS ARE MORE LABILE (2003, background): “We term this resemblance phylogenetic ‘‘signal’’ to avoid such terms as phylogenetic ‘‘inertia’’ or ‘‘constraint,’’ which are inconsistently defined, both conceptually and operationally (e.g., see Antonovics and van Tienderen 1991; McKitrick 1993; Wagner and Schwenk 2000; Orzack and Sober 2001; Reev”