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Juan L. Cantalapiedra

Dr. Juan L. Cantalapiedra

Senior Research Fellow
Dpto Ciencias de la Vida
Universidad de Alcalá de Henares
Madrid, Spain

My research mainly focuses on mammalian paleobiology and paleoecology, usually applying phylogenetic methods, but also through the analysis of large fossil datasets. I am particularly interested in the multiple factors that shape diversification rates through time (e.g. phenotypic innovations, competition, diversity limits,etc). More recently, I am also using bayesian methods that combine morphological and genomic data to estimate evolutionary trees.