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Foundations of ecological and evolutionary change

journal-club

modelling

ecology

evolution

Slides and notes from a journal club discussion I led on fundamental models in ecology and evolution with the Svensson Lab at Lund University. We walked through birth-death…

Perlin islands

R

just-for-fun

I want to start sharing some of the small projects I’ve been playing around with. Most of these have come from an idea that’s popped into my head during the week, that was…

Plotting the branches of a trimmed phylogeny on the original tree topology

R

methods

phylogeny

In a current research project, I have a single large phylogeny and tip data for a large number of traits. However, not all tips have data available for all traits. I want to…

Sexual selection is selection

evolution

A short essay on how selection theory clarified the cause of sexual selection and the Darwin-Bateman paradigm.

The sexual cascade

journal-club

evolution

Slides from a journal club discussion I led on Geoff Parker’s “sexual cascade” perspective paper (Parker 2014). I became interested in these ideas from discussions with Jeann…