Fig. 1.

Model selection profiles for 66 vertebrate clades. Clade colors indicate their order: black, fish; purple, amphibians; green, reptiles; blue, birds; and red, mammals. Each clade was fitted to seven models, classified into four groups: incremental change (BM), incremental stationarity (OU), explosive change (EB), and pulsed change (JN, NIG, BM+JN, BM+NIG). AICc weights were computed using only the best-fitting model within each class. A model class is selected only if its AICc weight is twice as large than that of any other model class (circles indicate selection counts: 12 incremental change, 1 incremental stationarity, 9 explosive change, 21 pulsed change, 23 ambiguous). Alternative model classifications are provided in SI Appendix.