Blogs and News Items
Please see the new monthly blog "Macroevolutionaries" by division senior curator Bruce S. Lieberman and Niles Eldredge, curator emeritus of the American Museum of Natural History: https://bronze-sheep-29mh.squarespace.com
3/4/19
The latest "Macroevolutionaries" blog post is now available: "Of cultural nationalism, Hamlet and the Cloaca Universalis"
Here are earlier blog posts on:
"When is a raptor a parrot? The curious case of the American Kestrel"
"Asleep at the switch: Paleontological life lessons, stasis, and the genius of Yogi Berra"
A former division superstar as well as a specimen in the division collected by him: "Paleo Personas: Musings on a Soviet cephalopod, Norman Newell, and mass extinctions"
And our first blog post: "Survival of the laziest: Does evolution permit naps?"
05/18/2019
Congratulations to Steven Byrum who successfully completed his Masters degree!
Steven is now working at the University of Florida as a PhD student studying fossil and modern sharks.
05/13/2019
New paper on biogeography and macroevolution of late Paleozoic cephalopods using GIS published in PeerJ:
https://peerj.com/articles/6910/
04/15/2019
New paper on possible early Cambrian sponge larvae from south China published in Journal of Paleontology:
04/15/2019
New paper on the Spence Shale soft-bodied biota published in Journal of the Geological Society of London:
https://jgs.lyellcollection.org/content/early/2019/03/29/jgs2018-195.full
3/26/19
Steven Byrum presenting his poster on the phylogeny and biogeography of spatangoid echinoids from the Cretaceous Western Interior Seaway, at the Geological Society of America sectional meeting in Manhattan, KS.
2/28/19
Congratulations to former division post-doc Luke Strotz! He has started his fellowship as a 1,000 Talents Scholar based at Northwest University in Xi'an China.
1/30/2019
Please see the new blog post by division graduate student Julie Taylor describing her undergraduate thesis research that was recently published in the journal Evolution: http://www.anoleannals.org/2019/01/16/evidence-for-local-specialization-in-a-widespread-lizard/
05/30/2018
New paper on the enigmatic deuterostome Herpetogaster published in Geological Magazine:
05/02/2018
New Paper on the Red Queen Hypothesis published in Biology Letters: http://rsbl.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/14/5/20170734
08/07/2017
New paper on the enigmatic Cambrian stalked filter feeder Siphusauctum published in Journal of Paleontology:
06/12/2017
Congratulations to Kayla Kolis who successfully completed her Masters degree.
06/06/2017
New paper on Cambrian Disc-shaped fossils published in PeerJ: https://peerj.com/articles/3312/