http://www.tempoandmode.com Centre for Macroevolution and Macroecology Wed, 28 Jul 2010 00:12:17 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en A two-day workshop on "Bayesian phylogenetic analysis using BEAST" will be held on Tuesday 30 March and Wednesday 31 March. The workshop will comprise five talks, given by Simon Ho and Rob Lanfear. All talks will be held in the Gould Wing Seminar Room (Building 116 Daley Rd). The workshop ... http://www.tempoandmode.com/2010/03/19/workshop-bayesian-phylogenetic-analysis-using-beast/ Research led by Matt Phillips has shown that the echidna evolved from a platypus-like ancestor between 19 and 45 million years ago. The research has been published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA. Please click on the picture to see a report by ... http://www.tempoandmode.com/2009/09/22/echidna-ancestors-swam-with-platypuses/ A review paper has been published in Trends in Ecology and Evolution, in which mitochondrial estimates of human evolutionary time-scales are discussed. Simon Ho is among the authors of this review article. Please click on the map below for a report by the Natural History Museum, London. http://www.tempoandmode.com/2009/09/04/humans-spread-out-of-africa-later/ Lindell Bromham has edited a special issue of Biology Letters, entitled "Whole organism perspectives on understanding molecular evolution". A list of the articles in this special feature, which has been organised in celebration of Darwin's 200th birthday, is available here. The issue includes contributions by Tim Barraclough, Lindell Bromham, Soojin ... http://www.tempoandmode.com/2009/04/27/special-issue-of-biology-letters/ A paper has just been published in Molecular Ecology, describing an ancient DNA study of Pleistocene lions. The study was led by Ross Barnett and Alan Cooper, with Simon Ho among the co-authors. It has received extensive media coverage, including news reports by the BBC, Daily Mail, and Wildlife Extra. ... http://www.tempoandmode.com/2009/04/01/ancient-dna-study-of-lions-2/ A story has been published on the ABC Science website, describing the results of a study on the mitochondrial population genetics of woolly mammoths (Gilbert et al., 2008 in Proc. Natl Acad. Sci. U.S.A.), with Simon Ho as a co-author. Please click on the picture to see the story. http://www.tempoandmode.com/2008/06/10/not-all-woolly-mammoths-were-alike/ A story has been published on the ABC Science website, describing the results of our study of bovine evolution (Ho et al., in press for Biology Letters). Please click on the picture to see the story. http://www.tempoandmode.com/2008/04/16/cow-explosion-down-to-humans/