For this month's research highlight in Evolutionary Applications, I chose to focus on recent approaches to studying evolutionary responses to climate change: "Given the increasingly unpredictable weather patterns associated with global climate change, a key aim of current research is to predict whether and how populations will be able to respond. Major advances are being … Continue reading Predicting the evolutionary response of populations to climate change
Predicting evolution
For this month's research highlights in Evolutionary Applications I thought I'd take a look at some of the recent work addressing the predictability of Evolution."Whether evolution is predictable becomes a key question when deciding how to translate and apply evolutionary theory to solve real-world problems. Mutations arise by chance, and therefore, it seems fair to question … Continue reading Predicting evolution
What’s been keeping me busy?
What a whirlwind of a few months it's been! Stay tuned, as we have some great new data rolling out and a couple of new review/synthesis papers. My lack of blogging recently (which I hope to remedy) is also the result of too many papers to review, lots of travel to and from (with the … Continue reading What’s been keeping me busy?
Why I dropped out of psychology and became an evolutionary biologist, Part II: Evolution is happening, and it matters.
At about the same time that I was getting very frustrated by my psychology courses, I was taking an Evolution lab course (taught by the ingenious Janis Antonovics) where the theories I had been reading about first began to take shape. It was my first taste of why evolution mattered to me and also of … Continue reading Why I dropped out of psychology and became an evolutionary biologist, Part II: Evolution is happening, and it matters.
Why I dropped out of psychology and became an evolutionary biologist
Every few months or so, I go through a period of wondering why I am doing what I am doing (as a scientist, that is). It usually happens when I am talking to, or listening to a talk by, another scientist who is studying the mechanism underlying a specific feature of biology. For example, the … Continue reading Why I dropped out of psychology and became an evolutionary biologist
Koskella Lab at UC Berkeley 