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Charles Darwin

Professor at the Department of Genetics, Evolution and EnvironmentUniversity College London, UK

Mallet J, Wynne IR, Thomas CD (2011) Hybridisation and climate change: brown argus butterflies in Britain (Polyommatus subgenus Aricia). InsectConservation and Biodiversity (available online).

Mallet J & Dasmahapatra K (2011) Catfish mimics (News and Views on Alexandrou et al. article in same issue). Nature 469: 41-42.

Mallet J (2010) Why was Darwin's view of species rejected by 20th Century biologists? Biology and Philosophy 25: 497-527.

Mallet J (2010) Group selection and the development of the biological species concept. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society 365: 1853-1863.

Recent publications:

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Assistant Professor at the Zoological InstituteUniversity of Basel, Switzerland

Berner D, M Roesti, AP Hendry & W Salzburger (2010) Constraints on speciationsuggested by comparing lake-stream stickleback divergence across two continents. Molecular Ecology 19: 4963-4978.

Muenzel FM, W Salzburger W, Sanetra M, Grabherr B & A Meyer (2010) Genetic structure of the vairone (Telestes souffia, Risso 1826) in the eastern part of Lake Constance, Central Europe. Journal of Fish Biology 77: 1158-1164.

Sturmbauer C, W Salzburger, N Duftner, R Schelly & S Koblmüller (2010) Evolutionary history of the Lake Tanganyika cichlid tribe Lamprologini (Teleostei: Perciformes) derived from mitochondrial and nuclear DNA data. MolecularPhylogenetics and Evolution 57: 266-284-1164.

Lee HJ, S Pittlik, JC Jones, W Salzburger, M Barluenga & A Meyer (2010) Genetic support for random mating between left and right-mouth morphs in the dimorphicscale-eating cichlid fish Perissodus microlepis from Lake Tanganyika. Journal of FishBiology 76: 1940-1957.

Recent publications:

Doherty Assistant Professor of Ocean Utilization MIT, USA

David LA, Alm EJ (2011) Rapid evolutionary innovation during an Archaean genetic expansion. Nature 469: 93-96.

Camas FM, Alm EJ, Poyatos JF (2010) Local Gene Regulation Details a Recognition Code within the LacI Transcriptional Factor Family. PLOS Computational Biology 6: e1000989.

Shapiro BJ, David LA, Friedman J, Alm,E (2009) Looking for Darwin's footprints in the microbial world. Trends in microbiology 17: 196-204.

Fraser C, Alm EJ, Polz MF, Spratt BG, Hanage WP (2009) The Bacterial Species Challenge: Making Sense of Genetic and Ecological Diversity . Science 323: 741-746.

Recent publications:

Professor at the Department of Geology and GeophysicsYale University, USA

Recent publications:

Bibi F, Vrba ES (2010) Unraveling bovin phylogeny: accomplishments and challenges. BMC Biology 8: 50.

Bibi F, Bukhsianidze M, Gentry AW, Geraads D, Kostopoulos DS, Vrba, ES (2009) The Fossil Record and Evolution of Bovidae: State of the Field. Palaeontologia Electronica 12: 10A.

Fernandez MH, Vrba ES (2006) Plio-Pleistocene climatic change in the Turkana Basin (East Africa): Evidence from large mammalfaunas. Journal of Human Evolution 50: 595-626.

White TD, WoldeGabriel G, Asfaw B, Ambrose S, Beyene Y, BernorRL, Boisserie JR, Currie B, Gilbert H, Haile-Selassie Y, Hart WK, Hlusko LJ, Howell FC, Kono RT, Lehmann T, Louchart A, LovejoyCO, Renne PR, Saegusa H, Vrba ES, Wesselman H, Suwa G (2006) Asa Issie, aramis and the origin of Australopithecus. Nature 440: 883-889.

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Evolution in ActionCase studies in Adaptive Radiation, Speciation and the Origin of Biodiversity(2010, Springer e-book)

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Origin of Species Sergey Gavrilets(2004)

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” There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed into a few forms or into one; and that, whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being, evolved.”