Evolutionary Novelties

The winner of the mnemonic contest for the geological table, is the poem inspired by Lord of the Rings.... We had over 100 votes. Congratul...

I've been meaning to try this for a while, but finally pulled it off this year. The idea is to have students in my Macroevolution cours...

I just was reading parts of Origin of Species again for an encyclopedia entry that I am writing. As usual, it's abundantly clear that C...

I presented my ideas on the limitations of linear evolution, versus tree thinking, in a presentation to a Department of Ecology and Evolutio...

People often ask me how I came to study something as obscure as ostracod crustaceans. The answer is a funny story. The spring/summer before...

For reasons I won't go into, I was looking up an old review of a paper of mine, that is now published (after originally being rejected a...

I just had a student ask me some questions about evolution. Since I spent a little time on this, I thought I would post it here, in case so...