Advances in Phylogenetic Comparative Methods.

如果不了解进化，不发展研究进化的方法，就不可能理解我们的生物群。这些结果将有助于生物学家进行理论上的重要项目：理解物种如何以及为什么进化成现在的样子。此外，这项研究将有助于生物学家研究更多的应用问题，例如如何预测某些物种是否可能濒临灭绝、灭绝，或者某些物种是否可能变得入侵和野生。这项研究将通过巩固与世界领先的生物学家和统计学家的强大合作，保持澳大利亚在进化生物学领域的领先地位。

An understanding of our biota is impossible without understanding evolution, and developing ways to study it. The outcomes will be useful for biologists conducting theoretically important projects: understanding how and why species have evolved to be the way they are. In addition, the research will be of use to biologists studying more applied questions, such as how to predict whether certain species are likely to become endangered, go extinct, or whether certain species are likely to become invasive and feral. This research will maintain Australia as a leader in evolutionary biology by cementing strong collaborations with world-leading biologists and statisticians.