Nov 19 2024

E&E Seminar: “Intraspecific variation and population processes in the fossil record” by C. Tomomi Parins-Fukuchi (University of Toronto)

November 19, 2024

12:30 PM - 1:30 PM

Location

SELE 4289

Please join us at 12:30pm on November 19, 2024 in SELE 4289 for an E&E Seminar featuring "Intraspecific variation and population processes in the fossil record" by Dr. C. Tomomi Parins-Fukuchi (University of Toronto)

Parins-Fukuchi Lab

Host: Joe Walker

Abstract: Morphological polymorphism is ubiquitous in the fossil record. Virtually all fossil lineages display population-level variation, some of which is maintained over millions of years. In this talk, I will examine how polymorphisms maintained throughout the duration of fossil lineages is inherited across incipient daughter species. Applying models of morphological evolution that account for intraspecific polymorphism, I explore how long-maintained polymorphisms have shaped macroevolutionary dynamics and phylogenetic patterns in two genera of fossil echinoderms.

Contact

Emily Beaufort

Date posted

May 8, 2024

Date updated

Nov 7, 2024