Research

Evolution and Embryos 

Has developmental bias shaped the biological diversity we see in nature today?

We study evolution and embryos in the context of development and organogenesis, tetrapods, skeletal morphology, adaptation, coral reef fishes, and marine ecology. Field and laboratory, comparative and experimental, theoretical and empirical, on land and under the sea – we ask questions of nature to try to understand how biological diversity arises.

  • Developmental bias and plasticity in evolution
  • Vertebrate skeletal development and evolution
  • Evolution of coral reef damselfishes
  • Evolution of reproductive behavior

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