Jeffrey Townsend and Zheng Wang release a SciVee Video on the "Evolution of reproductive morphology in leaf endophytes"

New capstone course Studies in Evolutionary Medicine starts in January. Click here for syllabus and here for information on how to apply. Application deadline: December 1, 2009, 5 pm.

Richard O. Prum, the William Robertson Coe Professor of Ornithology, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology is one of two Yale faculty members named MacArthur Foundation Fellows for 2009. Read Article.

Jeffrey Townsend and Zhang Zhang release a SciVee Video on "Maximum-Likelihood Model Averaging To Profile Clustering of Site Types across Discrete Linear Sequences"

Rick Prum “Birds as Living Dinosaurs” - an iTunes Netcast in Yale Eline Newsletter.

"Wings, Horns, and Butterfly Eyespots: How Do Complex Traits Evolve?"
Antónia Monteiro, Ondrej Podlaha
Monteiro lab in Plos Biology journal

Carl Zimmer on “Evolving Darwin” TIME News - Health & Science

Stephen Smith mentioned in New York Times, Feb. 9: Crunching the Data for the Tree of Life.

American Naturalist : Erem Kazancıoğlu and Suzanne H. Alonzo

Paul Turner featured in New Scientist

Stephen Smith in current Science issue. Read article.

Vincent Lynch, Wagner E&EB Ph.D and PostDoc: “Resurrected genes from the extinct ancestors of mammals helped us find a change that promoted development of the uterus and placenta.” (credit Wagner/Yale) Read article.

Extinct May Not be Forever for Some Species – NYT / BBC / National Geographic / Science interview Gisella Caccone and Jeff Powell for PNAS. Article | PDF | Word | EurekAlert

Monteiro lab stars in Science Friday Video. View video here.

A new video game allows players to create their own evolving organism. Read article.

Leo Buss cited in OBBeC.com. Read article.

Rob Leclerc, Wagner Lab, new Nature author. Read article.

Fossil Feathers Preserve Evidence of Color, Say Yale Scientists. Read article.

New Member of Am. Acad. Arts & Sci. - Michael Donoghue, Evelyn Hutchison Professor of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, Director of the Peabody Museum of Natural History and Professor of the School of Forestry & Environmental Studies has been elected to membership in the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Katy Prudic, PostDoc, Monteiro lab, has research featured in the Canadian version of NPR. The show is called "Quirks and Quarks". The podcast is available here.

Professor Antonia Monteiro's research on butterflies and PostDoc Patricia Brennan's research on duck behavior will be featured in the 2 part PBS Nature series "What females want" and "What males will do". Monteiro is in Part 1 and Brennan in Part 2 of the series scheduled for April 6 and 13th--check out your local PBS station for air times by following this link.

Günter Wagner Nature Paper

Evolutionary Medicine Symposium April 17. For information, go to: http://www.yale.edu/evomedsymposia

E&EB Senior Mary "Cassie" Stoddard wins prestigious Marshall Scholarship

Stearns Yale ITunes Interview for Bass
Writing Program - http://itunes.yale.edu/