Phylogenetic comparative methods whiz Liam Revell has developed a new method to visualize character evolution of continuous traits on a phylogeny. The program is cool and worth checking out on his Phytools blog, but the important point is that he illustrates the method by reconstructing size evolution in Greater Antillean anoles.
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Very cool, Liam. I had been using TreeGradients to accomplish a similar effect, but having this function in R via phytools will be much more straight forward.
Anthony. Cool. I had not seen TreeGradients, but I wondered if there might be other similar tools out there. Thanks for the heads up. phytools can also take a set of stochastic character mapped trees & plot the posterior density from the mappings (function densityMap; e.g., 1, 2). – Liam