Geometric biology allows us to understand the dynamics of how living things convert energy flows into mass, at all scales of biological organisation.
The size and shape (together, the ‘geometry’) of organisms ultimately determine these flows.
The Geometric Theory of Biology allows us to predict how things function, grow, and change; be they tumours, schools of fish, or whole forests.
Professor Dustin Marshall is seeking a marine larval biologist, with strong quantitative skills, to explore the ways in which temperature affects the energetics of development in marine invertebrates.
Published in Trends in Ecology & Evolution.
Published in Ecology Letters.
Colin Olito and Dustin Marshall ask an obvious but neglected question: “what would reproductive strategies look like in the absence of sperm competition?”
Tim Connallon, Shefali Sharma and Colin Olito have analysed four simple models of evolution of female and male adaptations in changing environments. They compared the outcomes to classical population genetics models of sex-specific selection in stable environments and found some important differences.
Published in Journal of Evolutionary Biology.
Published in The American Naturalist
Dustin Marshall and Craig White suggest that it might be time to take another look at the ways we currently understand and model growth.
Published in Trends in Ecology & Evolution.
A new study led by Evatt Chirgwin indicates that parental environment can influence adaptation to projected increases in sea level temperatures, not only by altering the fitness of offspring but also by altering the genetic variance available to increase fitness.
