Thursday, March 26 at 7:30 pm at REI
Stories from the Avian Tree of Life
by Professor Scott Lanyon, U of M Dept of Ecology
Long thought to be beyond the reach of science, the avian tree of life (the
genealogy for bird species) is now being revealed at an astonishing rate
through the work of museum scientists and molecular biologists. My colleagues
and I have been working on one major branch of the bird tree, that containing
the New World Blackbirds, New World Sparrows, New World Warblers, Tanagers, and
Cardinals.
In this talk I'll give a little background on how we discover genealogies that
cover tens of millions of years, describe why understanding this genealogy is
important to science, and provide glimpses of some of the implications of this
research.
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MRVAC meetings are free and open to the public. Please, join us.
When: Please join us at 7:00 pm at the Bloomington REI store to socialize over
coffee and cookies from 7:00 to 7:30 pm.
A brief business meeting and the featured speaker begin at 7:30 pm. The meeting
will conclude before 9:00 pm.
Where: REI is located at 750 W. 79 th Street, Bloomington, (at 494 and Lyndale
Ave. South, in the southwest corner of the intersection - but since Lyndale is
closed you need to use Nicollet or Penn to go south from 494 to American Blvd.
REI's entrance is now accessed via American Blvd, just west of Lyndale).
REI's phone number is 952-884-4315. Their phone greeting includes driving
directions around the construction.
Metro Transit: 612-373-3333 or on the web at www.metrotransit.org
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