Happy new year and Carnival of Evolution 2 Jan 2014 Happy New Year! The January edition of CoE is up: Carnival of Evolution, No. 67 — Wallace centenary edition We also need a host for February (and beyond). Anyone interested? If so, contact Bjørn Østman via the carnival website. Evolution
Evolution Birds up 6 Nov 200718 Sep 2017 I can’t believe Laelaps beat me to this (shows how on the ball he is) but he’s just noted a paper that I watched getting written, and discussed in detail with Chris Glen, a very smart and talented young paleontologist, before I got to. So I will now, before he… Read More
Evolution Contingency, not-quite-asexuals, and phylogeny of continuous characters 4 Jun 2008 This is a kind of scattered post on a few things that have caught my eye, while I am avoiding boring work. Paeloblog reports that a paper in Nature has done a phylogeny on continuous rather than discrete characters, using morphometric criteria to do a hominin phylogeny. This is not… Read More
Evolution Fish can walk! 22 Jul 2008 A Floridan neighborhood was surprised yesterday when after heavy rain, catfish started walking around their street. Of course, the fish were quick to point out that this doesn’t prove evolution is possible, as they all went to the local Baptist church… Read More