Evolutionary Novelties

Our local Little League does not have lights to play night games. Because baseball cannot be played in the dark, the lack of stadium lig...

We just published a paper on convergent evolution , which uses a new test of convergence called the "Independent Origins Test". I...

This holiday season, I've learned a new word from my nephews, and that word is 'cray-cray'*. According to my nephews, and the U...

I've decided to resurrect the Evolutionary Novelties blog. While I wrote fairly regularly from late 2007 until 2009, I stopped writing ...

Last week, a student in our lab had an NSF DDIG (Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant) returned without review. The reason is the propo...

It's unfortunately been too long since I've posted an 'ostra-blog', a post about my main study group, the Ostracoda. If you...

I received an e-mail question about a recent article I wrote with a graduate student. The question shows a common misunderstanding of evol...