Tag archive for ‘Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology’
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April 8, 2013
Research by Sean Doody in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology was featured in Science. The research has found that unborn lizards can erupt from their eggs days early...Read More »
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April 1, 2013
Research by Alison Boyer, a research assistant professor in ecology and evolutionary biology, and an international team studied the extinction rates of nonperching land birds in the Pacific Islands from...Read More »
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February 14, 2013
Each year more than six hundred people from more thirty-five states and beyond descend on the Great Smoky Mountains as flowers bloom in almost every shade of the rainbow to...Read More »
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January 22, 2013
Gilchrist, an associate professor of ecology and evolutionary biology, is using the power of supercomputers at the National Institute of Computational Sciences (NICS) to help advance our quantitative understanding of...Read More »
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December 11, 2012
Is homosexuality genetic? It's a long-running debate. Now researchers at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, say they've found a clue that may unlock the mystery. It lies in something called...Read More »
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December 11, 2012
Is homosexuality genetic? It's a long-running debate. Now researchers at UT say they've found a clue that may unlock the mystery. It lies in something called epi-genetics—how gene expression is...Read More »
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November 7, 2012
Alison Boyer, assistant professor of ecology and evolutionary biology, has spent the past ten years studying the endangerment and extinction of Pacific island birds. She'll be discussing her work at...Read More »
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November 5, 2012
Ecology and Evolutionary Biology professor Daniel Simberloff was officially awarded the Ramon Margalef ecology prize from the government of Catalonia, an autonomous region of Spain on October 29. A...Read More »
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August 13, 2012
A new national anti-bullying ad campaign urges parents to teach their kids to speak up if they witness bullying. One UT researcher has found that in humans' evolutionary past, at...Read More »
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August 13, 2012
Sergey Gavrilets, professor of ecology and evolutionary biology, was featured in the Knoxville News Sentinel for finding that we are genetically inclined to help weaker victims fight back against dominating...Read More »
