The Evolution Working Group is a group of faculty and students from the University of Alabama, and staff of the Alabama State Geological Survey. Current members of Evowog, departmental affiliations and areas of speciality:
C. Fred T. AndrusGeological Sciences
paleoclimatology; climate change; isotope geochemistry; archaeology; paleoecology; marine organism skeletal growth (fish otoliths, coral, mollusks, etc)
Jim Bindon
Anthropology
human evolution; race; human adaptation
David B. Boles
Psychology
comparative cognition; evolutionary cognition; brain evolution; handedness; language; history of Evolution Working Group
Michael Conaway (Institute for Social Science Research)
Jason DeCaro
Anthropology
Human population biology and health; human ontogeny; life history theory; adaptive plasticity; the evolution of childhood.
Rosanna Guadagno
Psychology
social influence and persuasion; gender roles; technology and social interaction; sex differences
in jealousy; female status hierarchies
David Kopaska-Merkel
Geological Survey of Alabama
ancient reef and mound deposits; carbonate geology; characteristics of hydrocarbon reservoir rocks
Christopher D. Lynn
Anthropology
Biocultural medical anthropology; human behavioral ecology; neuroanthropology; human sexual behavior; evolution of human consciousness (self-awareness, theory of mind, dissociation)
Richard A. Richards
Philosophy
Darwin; history and philosophy of biology; species and taxonomy; naturalism and value
Leslie Rissler
Biological Sciences
evolutionary biology; speciation; phylogeography; systematics; conservation genetics; biodiversity surveys
J. Brett Smith
Geological Survey of Alabama
aquatic biodiversity surveys; sexual selection in crayfishes; evolutionary theory; animal behavior; evolutionary psychology; practical implications of evolutionary mismatches
Ed Stephenson
Biological Sciences
molecular and cellular biology; evolution of developmental mechanisms; molecular evolution; history
of the Evolution Working Group.
Webmaster.
Carl Stock
Geological Sciences
earth history; geologic history of life; paleontology; fossils; mass extinction
McGee Turner
Student representative; President of the EvoS Club.
Chase Wrenn
Philosophy
philosophy of mind; philosophy of psychology; epistemology
John Yoder
Biological Sciences
evolution of morphological novelty