The conference ‘Celebrating Darwin: From the Origin of Species to Deep Metazoan Phylogeny’ was held at the Humboldt University in Berlin, from 3 to 6 March 2009. Specialists from the fields of bioinformatics, molecular biology, developmental biology, comparative morphology and paleontology joined forces to present and discuss novel approaches in reconstructing the still unresolved early branchi...

1 Institute of Earth Sciences Jaume Almera Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (ICTJA-CSIC), Barcelona, Spain, 2 Department of Prehistory, Ancient History and Archaeology, Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain, 3 Ecological Research Center and Forestry Applications (CREAF-CSIC), Cerdanyola del Vallès, Spain, 4 Department of Stratigraphy, Paleontology and Marine Geosciences, Uni...

a Institute for Geology and Paleontology, INCREMENTS Research Group, University of Frankfurt, Senckenberganlage 32, 60325 Frankfurt a. M., Germany b Department of Geological Sciences, University of North Carolina, CB #3315, 225 Mitchell Hall, Chapel Hill, NC 27599, USA c Department of Geological Sciences, The State University of New York at New Paltz, 75 South Manheim Boulevard, New Paltz, NY 1...

A longstanding debate in evolutionary biology and paleontology is whether ecological interactions such as competition impose diversity dependence on speciation and extinction rates. Here, we analyze the fossil record of terrestrial mammalian carnivores in North America and Eurasia using a Bayesian framework to assess whether their diversity dynamics were affected by diversity dependence within ...

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PAUL E. OLSEN1, HANS-DIETER SUES2, and MARK A. NORELL3 1Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University, Palisades, New York 10964; 2Department of Palaeobiology, Royal Ontario Museum, 100 Queen’s Park, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M5S 2C6 and Department of Zoology, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M5S 3G5; 3Division of Paleontology, American Museum of Natural History, Central P...

Studying the communication patterns of scientists can give us insight into how science works in practice. We have been studying the language of peer-reviewed journal articles in several scientific fields, and argue that methodological differences between different scientific fields are reflected in differences in how scientists in these fields rhetorically organize their texts. Techniques of co...

This paper gives an overview of the Virtual Showcase as an augmented reality display system for museums. It explains about different hardware prototypes, interaction tools as well as several software techniques to utilize the features of the Virtual Showcase. It also presents two case studies, one from paleontology and one from archeology.

Ontogeny and the Explanation of Form: An Allometric Analysis Author(s): Stephen Jay Gould Source: Memoir (The Paleontological Society), Vol. 2, Supplement to Vol. 42, no. 5 of the Journal of Paleontology. Paleobiological Aspects of Growth and Development: A Symposium (Sep., 1968), pp. 81-98 Published by: Paleontological Society Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/1315520 Accessed: 01-04-201...