This special issue has its origins with a 2014 symposium organized by myself and my co-editors David W. Bapst, Graeme T. Lloyd and Nicholas J. Matzke at the Society for Vertebrate Paleontology meetings in Berlin, Germany. In the two years prior to 2014, there had been several interesting and important papers published [1] [2] [3][4] about estimating phylogenetic trees incorporating fossil taxa, and particularly involving Bayesian analyses. Some of these papers were written from a neontological perspective, and appeared in journals not often read by paleontologists. We convened our session with a simple idea: to get dierent types of researchers from both neontology and paleontology together to share work and ideas concerning phylogenetic analyses in paleontology. The session\u27s success inspired my co-editors and I to propose a Special Feature for Biology Letters, to which we invited the session participants and other contributors. The Biology Letters short format is perfect for focused vignettes about the actual practice of phylogenetics with fossils.
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机译：此特刊的起源是由我本人和我的合著者David W. Bapst，Graeme T. Lloyd和Nicholas J. Matzke于2014年在德国柏林举行的研讨会组织的。在2014年之前的两年中，已经发表了几篇有趣且重要的论文[1] [2] [3] [4]，这些论文是关于评估结合有化石类群的系统发育树的，特别是涉及贝叶斯分析的。其中一些论文是从新生儿学角度撰写的，并出现在古生物学家不常阅读的期刊上。我们召开会议时提出了一个简单的想法：将来自新生儿学和古生物学的不同类型的研究人员聚集在一起，分享有关古生物学系统发育分析的工作和思想。这次会议的成功激发了我的共同编辑的兴趣，我提出了《生物学快报的特别报道》，我们邀请了会议参与者和其他撰稿人参加。 Biology Letters简短格式非常适合针对有化石的系统发育的实际实践的重点游说。
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