A Physiological Perspective on Biodiversity (2025-01-23)
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I am excited to introduce myself to the Department of Biology at the University of Minnesota, Duluth, and to share some of my work pursuing three important questions in evolutionary biology. What are the processes that drive phenotypic evolution? How do individual physiological, morphological, and behavioral traits interact in the broader evolutionary picture? Finally, what are the phenotypic and genetic signatures of ecological specialization? 1 will talk about how the physics of flight has shaped the evolution of wing shape in birds, how evolutionary conservatism in one set of traits can lead us to faulty assumptions about evolutionary divergence among some lineages, and what the evolutionary of ecological specialization among Dmsophila living on a tropical island off the coast of West Africa can teach us about the process of speciation.
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Jonathan A. Rader, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; January 23, 2PM, LSci rm 175
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University of Minnesota Duluth. Department of Biology. (2025). A Physiological Perspective on Biodiversity (2025-01-23). Retrieved from the University Digital Conservancy, https://hdl.handle.net/11299/272181.
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