Faculty List of Research Subtopic: Evolutionary theory

Jerry Coyne  <j-coyne@uchicago.edu> I work on a diverse array of topics in the areas of population and evolutionary genetics, speciation, ecological genetics, and molecular evolution.

Michael Foote  <mfoote@midway.uchicago.edu> Large-scale evolutionary patterns, morphological diversification, evolutionary rate

Lance Grande  <grande@fmnh.org> Phylogenetic interrelationships, comparative osteology, and historical biogeography of fossil and living actinopterygian fishes

Maureen Kearney  <mkearney@fieldmuseum.org> Comparative anatomy, development, systematics, and evolution of reptiles

Wen-Hsiung Li  <whli@uchicago.edu> Major interest: Processes and mechanisms of molecular and genomic evolution. I. Evolution of gene regulation. II. Evolution of duplicate genes. III. Development of statistical methods and computational analysis of genomic data.

Dario Maestripieri  <dario@uchicago.edu> Neuroendocrine, ecological, and evolutionary aspects of social behavior in primates

Robert Martin  <rdmartin@fieldmuseum.org> Reconstruction of the evolutionary history and phylogenetic relationships of primates, with special emphasis on the brain, reproduction and allometric scaling, but covering the whole range from morphology to molecular evidence.

Trevor Price  <pricet@uchicago.edu> Evolutionary ecology of birds, including sexual selection, speciation, causes of range limits and latitudinal gradients in species diversity

Stephen Pruett-Jones  <aspj@midway.uchicago.edu> Behavioral ecology, sexual selection, mate choice, communication, population biology, phylogeography

Richard Ree  <rree@fieldmuseum.org> Systematics of flowering plants, phylogenetics, model-based inference of macroevolution and historical biogeography, and biodiversity informatics. Regional interest in the Himalaya and Northern Hemisphere.

Neil Shubin  <nshubin@midway.uchicago.edu> I use paleontological and developmental approaches to understand the origin of new taxa, new morphological structures and new patterns of variation in evolution.

Leigh Van Valen  <leigh@uchicago.edu> Macroevolution, macroecology, fossil mammals, evolution of biotas, energy in ecology and evolution, ecological genetics, evolution of development and adaptation, organization and evolution of phenotype, conceptual analysis

Chung-I Wu  <ciwu@uchicago.edu> Speciation, evolutionary genetics, molecular population genetics, genomics, sexual selection