There have been some major recent breakthroughs on human evolutionary history.

Understanding the composition and function of complex microbial communities remains a key goal of applied microbial ecology, as well as providing many

A fun competition to help save life on earth

This week we will discuss a paper on how incorporating fossil data, even if flawed, into trait reconstruction, can improve the accuracy of the result.

Effective scientific progress requires that researchers report what they find and how they found it. This is not a controversial idea, but when it comes to

One of the big challenges for biomathematicians is the design of models which can capture the wide range of evolutionary processes and yet be computationally

Species Distribution Models (SDMs) typically rely on machine-learning approaches to estimate the niche of a species, where the "niche model" is effectively a

For disussion this week, I am circulating a pre-publication manuscript presenting a protocol for making dated phylogenies from massive genomic datasets, by

Carnaby's Cockatoo Calyptorhynchus latirostris is one of two black cockatoos with white tail bands endemic to the south-west of Western Australia.