Thinking outside of the areas of interest and specialisms and topics, students will be encouraged to develop the concepts and comparative frameworks that underpin these phenomena. In other words, ...

improving existing methods, and helping other researchers to use them. Phylogenetic comparative methods use phylogenies to ask interesting evolutionary questions. They can be used to: study speciation ...

A new method could help biologists understand species relationships and the mosaic of evolutionary history in the genome by enabling comparative analyses of entire genomes.