Probably. ProjectEvoMap is collecting data on where researchers in evolutionary biology can be found. It’s a little sparse right now — I know there’s a lot more research groups than appear on it so far — so you might want to add yourself (if you’re doing evolution research!) and help populate the data set.

… but then I realized I regard this image with something like reverence. Because what’s more worthy of reverence than hints of the common ancestry of all life forms? Thought the ape on the right is clearly in need of more brachiating practice, as He’s obviously doing it wrong.

It’s a year old, but I just read a paper on one of those species that pops up pretty frequently in environmental impact reports — the Mohave ground squirrel, Xerospermophilus mohavensis — whose conclusions add a little bit more depth to the Deep Time perspective of the desert around here. And by “depth” I mean …

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It’s the beginning of the month, and that means it’s time for the latest Carnival of Evolution.

The 50th Carnival of Evolution went up a few days ago — my apologies for being late, but I’m traveling. Which also explains the paucity of entries lately.