Dear all Can I draw your attention to this meeting which should be of interest to many ecologists, especially those with a more evolutionary outlook. It's one of the Royal Society Theo Murphy meetings, held at Chicheley Hall in Buckinghamshire, UK. We have a stellar line up of speakers, both specialists in sexual selection in extant organisms as well as palaeontologists.
Sexual selection is potentially an important driver of macroevolutionary processes like speciation and extinction, but this has rarely been tested using the fossil record. This meeting will bring biologists and palaeontologists together to discuss sexual selection’s role in macroevolution, how to detect it in extinct animals and how to measure its influence on the history of life across geological time. https://royalsociety.org/science-events-and-lectures/2018/05/sexual-selection/ All welcome and plenty of places available. The conference itself is free, you can stay at the centre (for a fee) or organise your own accommodation nearby. Best wishes Rob Knell Reader in Evolutionary Ecology School of Biological and Chemical Sciences Queen Mary University of London research website http://webspace.qmul.ac.uk/rknell/ [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>
