Discussion this week with notes on the Eco-Evo weekly discussion

Last week Carleton was host to Brock Fenton from the University of Western Ontario. He talked about bat evolution with special focus on the laryngeal echolocation. In light of this we are discussing the following papers:

Vaselka et al. 2010. A bony connection signals laryngeal echolocation in bats. Nature 463: 939-942.

Simmons et al. 2008. Primitive early Eocene bat from Wyoming and the evolution of flight and echolocation. Nature 451: 818-822.

I hope to see you all at Mike's place tonight!

This week I am also leading the Biology department's Ecology and Evolution discussion group (12 pm Nesbit 206). We are discussing the following paper:

Barnosky et al. 2011. Has Earth's sixth mass extinction already arrived? Nature 471: 51-57.

Canadian Society of Zoologists Reminder

Hi Evo-Paleo,

Just a friendly reminder that abstracts for the Ottawa meeting of the Canadian Society of Zoologists are due March 16. I hope to see many of you there. I will be presenting on some of my current PhD research. You'll have to come along and see!