Colloquium Four Reading Group

Friday, March 23rd, we will discuss a recent paper by Outomuro et al (2016): Antagonistic natural and sexual selection on wing shape in a scrambling damselfly Join us!

Friday, March 16th, we will discuss a recent paper by Revell et al (2018): Comparing evolutionary rates between trees, clades and traits

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Friday, March 2nd, we will discuss a recent paper by Du et al (2018): Pattern and process in hominin brain size evolution are scale-dependent

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Friday, February 2nd, we will discuss a recent paper by Rolland et al (2018): The impact of endothermy on the climatic niche evolution and the distribution of vertebrate diversity

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Friday, January 19th, we will discuss a recent paper by Peiman and Robinson (2017): Comparative Analyses of Phenotypic Trait Covariation within and among Populations

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This Friday, November 24th, we're discussing a paper by Uyeda et al. (2017): "A General Model for Estimating Macroevolutionary Landscapes".

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This Friday, November 17th, we're discussing a paper by Hagey et al. (2017): "Tempo and mode of performance evolution across multiple independent origins of adhesive toe pads in lizards".

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This Friday, November 10th, we're discussing a paper by Benson et al. (2017): "Cope's rule and the adaptive landscape of dinosaur body size evolution".

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This Friday, November 3rd, we're discussing a paper by Good et al. (2017): "The dynamics of molecular evolution over 60,000 generations".

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This Friday, October 27th, we're discussing a paper by Fox et al. (2017): "The social and cultural roots of whale and dolphin brains".

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This Friday, October 20th, we're discussing a paper by Grabowski and Jungers (2017): "Evidence of a chimpanzee-sized ancestor of humans but a gibbon-sized ancestor of apes".

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This Friday, October 13th, we're discussing a paper by Tidiere et al. (2017): "Evolutionary allometry reveals a shift in selection pressure on male horn size".

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This Friday, October 6th, we're discussing a paper by Svensson (2017): "On reciprocal causation in the evolutionary process".

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This Friday, September 29th, we're discussing a paper by De Lisle and Svensson (2017): "On the standardization of fitness and traits in comparative studies of phenotypic selection".

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This Friday, September 22nd, we're discussing a paper by Punzalan and Rowe (2016): "Concordance between stabilizing sexual selection, intraspecific variation, and interspecific divergence in Phymata".

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This Friday, September 15th, we're discussing a paper by Scranton et al. (2016): "The importance of the timescale of the fitness metric for estimates of selection on phenotypic traits during a period of demographic change".

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This Friday, July 7th, we're discussing a recent paper from the American Naturalist by Brombacher et al. (2017): " The Breakdown of Static and Evolutionary Allometries during Climatic Upheaval".

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This Friday, April 28th, we're discussing a recent paper on the newest SSE model by Rabosky & Goldberg (2017): "FiSSE: A simple nonparametric test for the effects of a binary character on lineage diversification rates".

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This Friday, March 24th, we're discussing a recent paper by Cantalapiedra et al. (2017): "Decoupled ecomorphological evolution and diversification in Neogene-Quaternary horses".

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This Friday, March 17th, we're discussing a paper by Love and Lugar (2013): "Dimensions of integration in interdisciplinary explanations of the origin of evolutionary novelty".

Note that one of the authors (Alan C. Love) will give two talks in Oslo next week, one on Developmental mechanisms and another on Evolution of novelty.

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This Friday, February 24th, we're discussing a paper by Rabosky and Goldberg (2015): "Model Inadequacy and Mistaken Inferences of Trait-Dependent Speciation."

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This Friday, the 3rd of February, we will discuss a paper by Davis et al. from 2016 titled "Herbivory promotes dental disparification and macroevolutionary dynamics in grunters (Teleostei: Terapontidae), a freshwater adaptive radiation".

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This Friday, the 27th of January, we will discuss a paper by Haber and Dworkin from 2017 called "Disintegrating the fly: A mutational perspective on phenotypic integration and covariation"

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This Friday, the 20th of January, we will discuss a paper by Chira and Thomas from 2016 called "The impact of rate heterogeneity on inference of phylogenetic models of trait evolution"

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