David Reznick: UC Riverside Department of BiologyAn unanswered question in biology is “how do complex traits evolve?”. This question endures as an area of controversy because of a paucity of empirical evidence and because the process unfolds on a time scale that is far longer than human experience. I am developing a model system for […]

Dan Blumstein: UCLA Department of Organismic Biology, Ecology and Evolution Many prey species signal when they encounter a predator. For over a decade I've used anti-predator communication as a model for understanding the evolution of complex communication in general. I will summarize results, primarily focusing on my work with marmots--large, alpine ground squirrels found throughout […]

Michael Sockol: UC Davis Department of Anthropology The origin of the human family, Hominidae, has been a primary focus of paleoanthropologists for more than a century. Indeed, the desire to understand our origins is ubiquitous in human society. Of continuing interest to anthropologists is the nature of the shift to bipedal locomotion in our earliest […]