Evans, Alistair - Monash University - School of Biological Sciences

研究领域

The multidisciplinary research in Al’s lab combines fossils and modern biotechnology to demonstrate some of the limits on evolution. This has included discovering a rule of how teeth evolve that shows humans are constrained in the same way as mice – both show the same evolutionary trends and limitations. Al has also invented a new technique for predicting the diet of extinct animals by using state-of-the-art 3D imaging to measure the complexity of teeth. This new method opens up a window on the past diversity of life. Another avenue of research has been the speed of evolution, where he has demonstrated how long it takes to evolve an animal the size of a mouse into one the size of an elephant.

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Park T, Fitzgerald EMG, and Evans AR. 2016. Ultrasonic hearing and echolocation in the earliest toothed whales. Biology Letters 12: 20160060. Evans AR, Daly SE, Catlett KK, Paul KS, King SJ, Skinner MM, Nesse HP, Hublin JJ, Townsend GC, Schwartz GT, and Jernvall J. 2016. A simple rule governs the evolution and development of hominin tooth size. Nature 530: 477-480. [pdf] McCurry MR, Evans AR, and McHenry CR. 2015. The sensitivity of biological finite element models to the resolution of surface geometry: a case study of crocodilian crania. PeerJ 3: e988. Hocking DP, Salverson M, and Evans AR. 2015. Foraging-based enrichment promotes more varied behaviour in captive Australian fur seals (Arctocephalus pusillus doriferus). PLoS ONE 10: e0124615. Hocking DP, Salverson M, Fitzgerald EMG, and Evans AR. 2014. Australian fur seals (Arctocephalus pusillus doriferus) use raptorial biting and suction feeding when targeting prey in different foraging scenarios. PLoS ONE 9: e112521. Harjunmaa E, Seidel K, Hakkinen T, Renvoise E, Corfe IJ, Kallonen A, Zhang Z-Q, Evans AR, Mikkola ML, Salazar-Ciudad I, Klein OD, and Jernvall J. 2014. Replaying evolutionary transitions from the dental fossil record. Nature 512: 44-48. Saarinen JJ, Boyer AG, Brown JH, Costa DP, Ernest SKM, Evans AR, Fortelius M, Gittleman JL, Hamilton MJ, Harding LE, Lintulaakso K, Lyons SK, Okie JG, Sibly RM, Stephens PR, Theodor J, Uhen MD, and Smith FA. 2014. Patterns of maximum body size evolution in Cenozoic land mammals: eco-evolutionary processes and abiotic forcing. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 281: 20132049. Evans AR, and Janis CM. 2014. The evolution of high dental complexity in the horse lineage. Annales Zoologici Fennici 51: 73-79.