Colloquium Four Reading Group - Page 2

Time and place: , Room 3302

This Friday the 13th of May we will discuss a recent paper by Ingram et al. (2016): "Comparative tests of the role of dewlap size in Anolis lizard speciation".

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Friday the 9th of December we will discuss a recent paper by Halley (2016): Prenatal Brain-Body Allometry in Mammals

 

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This Friday the journal club will discuss a paper by Sánchez et al (2004): Branching and Self-Organization in Marine Modular Colonial Organisms: A Model.

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This Friday the journal club will discuss a paper by Bush, Hunt and Bambach (2016) in PNAS: Sex and the shifting biodiversity dynamics of marine animals in deep time.

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This Friday the journal club will discuss a paper by Sakamoto et al. (2016): ‘Residual diversity estimates’ do not correct for sampling bias in palaeodiversity data.

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This Friday we'll discuss a paper from the future American Naturalist presenting a new tool; "Phylogenetic ANCOVA: Estimating Changes in Evolutionary Rates as Well as Relationships between Traits" by Fuentes-G., Housworth, Weber and Martins.

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This Friday the journal club will discuss a paper by Gene Hunt and Graham Slater (2016): "Integrating Paleontological and Phylogenetic Approaches to Macroevolution" .

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This Friday the journal club will discuss a paper by Pennell et al. (2015): "Model Adequacy and the Macroevolution of Angiosperm Functional Traits" .

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This Firday the journal club will discuss a paper by Maddison & FitzJohn (2014): "The Unsolved Challenge to Phylogenetic Correlation Tests for Categorical Characters". Join us!

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This Firday at the journal club we will discuss a paper by Arnold & Houck (2016): "Can the Fisher‐Lande process account for birds of paradise and other sexual radiations?"

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The journal club is back from summer vacations and we`ll dive into species diversification with the latest paper from Lewitus & Morlon (2016): "Natural constraints to species diversification". Join us!

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This week we read a paleobioogical paper by Kiessling and Kocsis on  Biodiversity dynamics and environmental occupancy of fossil azooxanthellate and zooxanthellate scleractinian corals. Paleobiology, 41, pp 402-414

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This Friday the 17th of June we will discuss a recent paper by Green & Sharpe (2015): "Positional information and reaction-diffusion: two big ideas in developmental biology combine".

 

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Time and place: , Room 3302

This Friday the 10th of June we will discuss a recent paper by Lawing et al. (2016): "Community functional trait composition at the continental scale: the effects of non-ecological processes."

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Time and place: , Room 3302

This Friday the 13th of May we will discuss a recent paper by Chevin (2016): "Species selection and random drift in macroevolution".

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Time and place: , Room 3302

This Friday the 29nd of April we will discuss a recent paper by our former CEES colleague Mark Grabowski : "Bigger brains led to bigger bodies?: The correlated evolution of human brain and body size". You can read some of the press cover about the article here.

Come discuss the evolution of our genus!

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This Friday the 22nd of April we will discuss a paper by Kaji et al. (2016): "Functional transformation series and the evolutionary origin of novel forms: evidence from a remarkable termite defensive organ".

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This Friday the 15th of April we will discuss a paper by Benson et al. (2016): "Near-Stasis in the Long-Term Diversification of Mesozoic Tetrapods".

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This Friday the 8th of April we will discuss a paper by Mueller and Newman (2005): "The innovation triad: an EvoDevo agenda".

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This Friday the 1st of April we will discuss a paper by Thurman and Barrett (2016): "The genetic consequences of selection in natural populations." Hope to see you there!

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This Friday the 18th of March we will discuss an EvoDevo paper by Levin et al. 2016: "The mid-developmental transition and the evolution of animal body plans”.

Please mind the change of location, we will be permanently moving to the "Aquarium" (3rd floor, 3302). 

Time and place: , Room 3302

This Friday the 11th of March we will be discussing mass extinctions and a paper from Barnosky et al. 2011: "Has the Earth’s sixth mass extinction already arrived?".

Please mind the change of location, we will be permanently moving to the "Aquarium" (3rd floor, 3302).