Tag Archives: speciation

BEACON Researchers at Work: The effect of landscapes and ecology on gene flow and speciation in amphibians

Posted on April 10, 2012 by Danielle Whittaker

This week’s BEACON Researchers at Work blog post is by University of Idaho graduate student Tyler Hether. The amount of biological diversity at all levels of biological organization—from genes to ecosystems—fascinates me. This interest is the reason I study evolutionary … Continue reading →

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BEACON Researchers at Work: Investigating the dynamics of diversification in chipmunks

Posted on February 20, 2012 by Danielle Whittaker

This week’s BEACON Researchers at Work post is by University of Idaho graduate student Brice Sarver. Speciation, the set of processes through which new species arise, is one of the central areas of biological study.  It is easy, relatively speaking, … Continue reading →

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BEACON Researchers at Work: Autonomous foraging, speciation and open-ended evolutionary experiments in 3D physically realistic worlds

Posted on July 4, 2011 by Danielle Whittaker

This week’s BEACON Researchers at Work blog post is by Keck Graduate Institute graduate student Nicolas Chaumont, who is currently a visiting scholar at MSU. Everybody I’ve talked to who is aware of Karl Sims’ work on the evolution of … Continue reading →

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BEACON Researchers at Work: Speciation in Digital Organisms

Posted on June 20, 2011 by Danielle Whittaker

This week’s BEACON Researchers at Work post is by MSU graduate student Carlos Anderson. That the structure and laws of our universe enabled the origin of life is an incredible coincidence. Without the gravity that aggregates matter into galaxies, stars, … Continue reading →

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