Blogs about: Functional Morphology
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New podcast series on vertebrate anatomy by Dr. Bonnan
Just a brief post to let those interested know that Dr. Bonnan has a new blog, Along the Backbone, that acts as a discussion site and feed router for a podcast series on the evolution of vertebrate an… more →
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Primates as Analogies: Interpreting the Fossil Record
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wrote 2 months ago: The australopithecines were a group of early human ancestors, hominins who wandered around East and … more →
Faculty Faction: Dr. Michael Butcher
wrote 3 months ago: Youngstown State University collects all sorts of people as students, faculty, and professors. Each … more →
SICB 2013, Day 2: So many fishes.
wrote 4 months ago: It’s the first full day of SICB, and filled with all of the things that make big conferences fun. Th … more →
Conformity as a transition in racial identity? Or just another fad?
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wrote 6 months ago: Sixty-years ago the word “Nigger” was a means to admonish blacks in this country. Fast-f … more →
Color Your Dinosaurs
wrote 10 months ago: by Yesul Chun When we imagine about the colors of dinosaurs or other ancient creatures lived at that … more →
Welcome to the Evolving Paleontologist!
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wrote 11 months ago: Dr. Matthew Bonnan, Ph.D. Welcome to my new digital home, webpage, and blog! After years of running … more →
Live from Charleston, it's SICB! Day 1
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wrote 1 year ago: Today was the first full day of the Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology’s annual m … more →
Episode 7: Hands Down, or, Why Velociraptor Could Not Open Doors
wrote 1 year ago: This podcast was chosen by popular demand by the followers of this blog. Thanks for your continued … more →
Episode 5: Elephants, Cats, and Ticking Clocks
wrote 1 year ago: Unlike a lizard where the limbs are sprawled out to the sides, most mammals have drawn their limb bo … more →
Episode 2: Why Pedigrees Are Not Just For Dog Shows
wrote 1 year ago: When we talk about reconstructing the vertebrate family tree, we are also trying to develop a pedigr … more →
New podcast series on vertebrate anatomy by Dr. Bonnan
wrote 1 year ago: Just a brief post to let those interested know that Dr. Bonnan has a new blog, Along the Backbone, t … more →
Dr. Bonnan featured among paleontology experts in a Nature news article on sauropods
wrote 1 year ago: Just a short post to draw attention to a new article in Nature on the evolution of sauropod dinosaur … more →
Water-repellent insects and friends
wrote 1 year ago: Water striders are incredible little bugs. Somehow, they manage to use surface tension to push thems … more →
Dr. Bonnan going to the field ... and tweeting too!
wrote 1 year ago: From Dr. Bonnan: I am preparing to go back out to the field and continue my work with the Burpee Mus … more →
Mammal smarts linked to hair & olfaction
wrote 1 year ago: A new paper by Timothy Rowe, Thomas Macrini, and Zhe-Xi Luo entitled, “Fossil Evidence on the … more →
Functional feet
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wrote 2 years ago: It is of course inevitable that similar features undergoing similar evolutionary pressures will conv … more →
FMEA students present at Undergraduate Research Day
wrote 2 years ago: The FMEA lab made a strong showing at the Thomas E. Helm Undergraduate Research Day at WIU Wednesday … more →
Former FMEA student goes 3D!
wrote 2 years ago: I am proud to say that a former graduate student and alumnus of the FMEA lab, Ashley Morhardt, is pa … more →
The WIU FMEA Laboratory Announces the Beginning of its “Lemur Biodiversity Initiative”
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wrote 2 years ago: Dr. Jess White, Assistant Professor of Anthropology and the Co-Director of the Functional Morphology … more →
