The true tempo of evolutionary radiation and decline revealed on the Hawaiian archipelago

How does one chart the rise and fall of clades through time? The fossil record is often too patchy, and molecular phylogenies infer that clades are most diverse at the time of sampling. Here, Jun Lim and Charles Marshall sample the diversity of endemic clades on the geologically connected islands of Hawaii, the ages of which are known along with how their areas have changed. Each island in the chain can be thought of as a time capsule...