Current evidence indicates a Eurasian origin for the Last Common Ancestor of African apes and humans, and supports a new hypothesis suggesting that the Zanclean Megaflood (5.3 Ma) may have played a role in the ultimate divergence of Pan and Homo.

2024-3-6

Eccrine Hydration

2023-12-4

Beyond individual, population, and community: Considering information, cell number, and energy flux as fundamental dimensions of life across scales

2023-12-4

Screen adaptation theory for humans

2022-5-28

Think like a Bayesian and avoid pitfalls from our frequentist past

2022-4-25

Investing in publication: Researchers as "savage capitalists"

2022-1-27

Transformative choices towards a sustainable academic publishing system

2022-1-27

How I became one of the world's top experts on fire research: despite all, when preparation meets opportunity, truth in science emerges

2021-12-13

The Little Prince is an ecologist

2021-10-24

Phylogeny can inform animal model development for both inherited and induced conditions: Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy (DMD) and Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders (FASD)

2021-8-3

The third dimension: How fire-related research can advance ecology and evolutionary biology

2020-12-21

A uniquely fire creature, a uniquely fire planet

2020-12-21

Teaching Post-Secondary Students in Ecology and Evolution: Strategies for Early-Career Researchers

2020-3-23

Have we already tested the aquatic ape hypothesis?

2020-1-31

A paradigm for the evolution of human features: Apes trapped on barren volcanic islands

2020-1-31

Discoveries and novel insights in ecology using structural equation modeling

2019-9-27

Stick supply to nests by cliff-nesting raptors as an evolutionary load of past tree-nesting

2019-8-13

Cliffs, trees, and ground-nesting raptors

2019-8-13

Data-based, synthesis-driven: Setting the agenda for computational ecology

2019-7-22

Did pathogens facilitate the rise of endothermy

2019-6-4

Meet Homo absurdus--the only creature that refuses to be what it is

2019-1-16

A comment on computational biology and connecting the dots.

2019-1-11

Ideas in Ecology and Evolution

2019-1-10

Why are you strategizing? Response to "Eleven strategies for getting into graduate school in ecology & evolutionary biology"

2018-11-26

Eleven strategies for getting into graduate school in ecology & evolutionary biology

2018-11-26

Bridging valleys: Expanding the adaptive landscape concept beyond theoretical space:

2018-5-2

The demise of dinosaurs and learned taste aversions: The biotic revenge hypothesis

2018-2-14

The demise of dinosaurs and learned taste aversions: The biotic revenge hypothesis

2018-2-14

The nine classes of plant-plant replacement

2018-1-1

Late-acting self-incompatibility and a narrow floral tube as selective forces for stylar dimorphism in Narcissus (Amaryllidaceae): A response to Simón-Porcar

2018-1-1

Late-acting self-incompatibility and a narrow floral tube as underlying stylar dimorphism in Narcissus (Amaryllidaceae)

2018-1-1

Publishing papers while keeping everything in balance: Practical advice for a productive graduate school experience

2018-1-1

The sexual selection of hominin bipedalism

2018-1-1

Bridging valleys: Expanding the adaptive landscape concept beyond theoretical space--with applications in ecology and evolution

2018-1-1

Meiosis decreases recombination load; Mitosis increases recombination load

2018-1-1

Evolution of the seed habit: Is niche construction a missing component?

2018-1-1

Sexual selection explains much in human evolution, but probably not bipedalism

2018-1-1

The soiil mosaic hypothesis: a synthesis of multi-trophic diversification via soil heterogeneity

2017-1-1

Idea farming: it is a good idea to have bad ideas in science.

2017-1-1

Open Sesame: R for Data Science is Open Science

2017-1-1

Value of communicating global change biology in the media

2017-1-1

Does the seed rain limit recruitment, regeneration, and plant community dynamics?

2017-1-1

Is it possible to make environmental science relevant to society at-large?

2017-1-1

YouTube videos of 'research in action' foster diverse public interest in science

2017-1-1

The sapiens advantage

2017-1-1

Why Altmetric scores should never be used to measure the merit of scientific publications (or 'how to tweet your way to honour and glory')

2016-1-1

Some advice to early career scientists: Personal perspectives on surviving in a complex world

2016-1-1

Altruism in wolves explains the coevolution of dogs and wolves

2016-1-1

The benefits of workshopping graduate fellowships: a how-to guide for graduate students and early career scientists

2016-1-1

Power scaling, vascular branching, and the Golden Ratio

2016-1-1