This makes intuitive sense because common ancestry is the only factor that unites four billion years of life on Earth. This connection between taxonomy and phylogeny means that new discoveries or ...

Specimens and their associated data are used as the basis for original collections-based research on the taxonomy, life history, geography, and evolutionary history of insects, arachnids, and ...

Specialisms: Red algal taxonomy, life histories, evolution, ecology and conservation. Genomic approaches. Response to environmental change. My research is in the biology of marine algae, specializing ...

Ithaca: Cornell University Press. Crick, F H and Orgel, L E 1973, ‘Directed panspermia’, Icarus 19, p. 341-346. Crowe, M J 2008, The Extraterrestrial Life Debate. Notre Dame: Notre Dame University ...