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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".
Hope to see you there!
by Dr. Dag Endresen, GBIF Node Manager for Norway at the Natural History Museum in Oslo.
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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Welcome! Open for all. Main lecture: Marcia McNutt, geophysicist and president of the US Academy of Sciences, on: "Reconciling Energy Resource Extraction with Ecosystem Health – Lessons from Deepwater Horizon". (The Fridtjof Nansen Lectures on Ocean Life are part of the UiO Day of the Arctic).
By Prof. Katriona Shea, Penn State, US.
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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Species' responses to changes in the environment can be either genetic or plastic, and adaptive or non-adaptive. Identifying the exact nature of such responses requires integration of population models and quantitative genetics theory.
This Thursday, at the Speciation Journal Club, we will discuss a paper on brain size ad colonization processes, by Fristoe et al. published in 2017 in Nture Ecology and Evolution.
By Prof. Ottar Bjørnstad, Penn State, US.
Please note the time change!
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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By Erik Bonsdorff, professor of marine biology at Åbo Akademi University, Finland
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 Thursday, at the Speciation Journal Club, we will discuss a paper on opsin evolution in different light environments in sticklebacks, by Marques et al. published in 2017 in PLoS Biology.
By Kathleen Pribyl, associate fellow at the Climatic Research Unit, University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK
Dr. Gaëtan Burgaud, Assistant Professor, Microbial Ecology and Biodiversity Laboratory, University of Brest, France
Research gate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Gaetan_Burgaud
Dr Burgaud is also the opponent for the PhD defense of Maryia Khomich on Thursday 5 October.
This Friday, October 6th, we're discussing a paper by Svensson (2017): "On reciprocal causation in the evolutionary process".
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Climate can affect populations not only directly and through resource availability, but also by altering predation risk. Such interactions can lead to unexpected or counter-intuitive responses, and considering them can be important for predicting population responses to climate change.
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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Dear all CEES members: We are pleased to invite you to the Annual Student Conference!
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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By Clint Perry, Cognitive Neuroethologist from Queen Mary University, London, UK
The evolution and spread of human culture are intriguing topics by themselves, but who knew cultural dynamics could be included into demographic population models?
By Andries Richter, assistant professor at Wageningen University & Research