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Corals are a foundational species of an ecosystem upon which hundreds of thousands of people depend for food, coastal protection, and jobs (Brander et al., 2007; Ferrario et al., 2014; Fisher et al., 2015). Some in the coral science community argue that innovative restoration interventions are needed in response to... [Read More]

You may be aware that many of the evolutionary biology’s most revered founders like Charles Darwin, RA Fisher, Francis Galton, William Bateson, and others, held questionable or even downright repugnant notions concerning evolutionary differences and hierarchies between races or the differently abled. But, even if you know this now, did... [Read More]

Dr. Will H. Ryan University of Alabama at Birmingham Life is full of difficult questions: What should I eat for dinner? Where should I live? Should I have kids? It is no different for clonal cnidarians, who can add: Should I rip myself in half? Should I leave a trail... [Read More]

Park yourself on a beach towel at the coast for long enough, and you will likely experience a fraction of the environmental stress intertidal animals see on a regular basis. But they thrive in this environment, partially due to their physiological plasticity. Plasticity is a trait commonly seen in organisms... [Read More]

For the past few years, my colleagues and I have been looking at the implications of asymmetric dispersal of marine larvae on larval evolution (Pringle et al. 2014), biogeography (Byers & Pringle 2006, Pappalardo et al. 2015, Pringle et al. 2017), phylogeography (Pringle & Wares 2007, Wares & Pringle 2008,... [Read More]