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Regressive Palaeontology - Schedule

Advance notice: In November we will discuss a book - Roy Chapman Andrews' (a.k.a. the real Indiana Jones) Under a Lucky Star. This is fairly old (1943) and is not in the library, the best place to find a copy is online (www.bookfinder.com). We are intending to put in a bulk order (to save on postage costs), please let us (Sarda Sahney or Graeme Lloyd) know if you want to be part of this (estimated cost is £10 so you might want to share).

Tuesday 22 August 2006
Sarda Sahney
Quantative Palaeobiology Methods: Biochronology
Tuesday 15 August 2006
Marcello Ruta
Quantative Palaeobiology Methods: Cladistics and Phylogenetics
Some basic tenets of cladistic reconstruction
Tuesday 8 August 2006
Graeme Lloyd

Quantative Palaeobiology Methods: Origination and Extinction
Topics: Different types of extinction measures, cohort survivorship, and ghost ranges.
Monday 31 July 2006
Sarda Sahney
Meeting Notes

Quantative Palaeobiology Methods: Biodiversity
Topics: Different types of diversity curves, artifacts of diversity curves and subsampling.
9th November 2005
Manbu Sakamoto

Wright Brothers Upstaged! Dinos Invented Biplanes
  Chatterjee, S.
  Link to Article
28th September 2005
Graeme Lloyd
Meeting Notes
Relatively well preserved DNA is present in the crystal aggregates of fossil bones
 Salamon, M., N. Tuross , B. Arensburg , and S. Weiner. 2005. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America.
  Link to Article
23rd August 2005
Sarda Sahney
Meeting Notes
Whew! Your DNA Isn't Your Destiny
  Keim, B. 2005. Wired.
  Link to Article
17th August 2005
James Tarver
Meeting Notes
Fighting change with change: adaptive variation in an uncertain world
  Meyers, L. A. and J. J. Bull. 2002. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 17(12), 551-557.
  Link to Article
10th August 2005
Sandra Jasinoski
Meeting Notes
Which came first, the lung or the breath?
  Perry, S.F., R.J.A. Wilson, C.Straus, M.B. Harris and J.E. Remmers. 2001. Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology - Part A: Molecular & Integrative Physiology. 129(1), 37-47
  Link to Article
3rd August 2005
Manabu Sakamato

Meeting Notes
Why ornithologists should care about the theropod origin of birds
  Prum, R. 2002. The Auk 1119(1), 1-17
  (not online)
27th July 2005
Pam Gill
Meeting Notes
Patterns of mammalian evolution across the Cretaceous-Tertiary boundary
  Clemens, W. 2001. Mitteilungen aus dem Museum für Naturkunde in Berlin, Zoologische Reihe 77(2), 175-191
  (not online)
20th July 2005
Graeme Lloyd
Meeting Notes
Volcanism, impact and mass extinctions: incredible or credible coincidences? 
  White, R.V. and A.D. Saunders, 2005. Lithos 79(3-4), 299-316
  Link to Article
13th July 2005
Neil Gostling
Meeting Notes
Intelligent design: Who has designs on your students' minds?
  Brumfiel, G. 2005. Nature 434, 1062-1065
  Link to Article
Editorial: Stand up for evolution
  Raff, R.A. 2005. Evolution and Development 7(4), 273-275
  Link to Article
29th June 2005
Sarda Sahney
Meeting Notes
Species Diversity can drive speciation
  Emerson, B.C. and N. Kolm, 2005. Nature 434, 1015-1017.
  Link to article
18th May 2005
Alexei Rivera
Meeting Notes
Modelling the recent common ancestry of all living humans
  Rohde, D.L.T., S. Olson and J.T. Chang, 2004. Nature 431, 562-566
  Link to article
4th May 2005
Graeme Lloyd
Meeting Notes
Colour in Burgess Shale animals and the effect of light on evolution in the Cambrian
  Parker, A.R. 1998. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 265, 967-972
  Link to article
20th April 2005
Sarda Sahney
Meeting Notes
Cycles in fossil diversity
  Rohde, R.A. and R A. Muller, 2005. Nature 434, 208-210
  Link to article
Fossils make waves
  Kirchner, J.W. and A. Weil, 2005. Nature 434, 147-148
  Link to article


For more information contact Sarda Sahney or Graeme Lloyd. If you would like to choose a paper for discussion and please read our very short guidelines.
Last updated 2005.10.26