Evolutionary research doesn't just happen in the lab or on fossil sites - sometimes it is carried out entirely on computer...

When did mammals first arise, before or after the demise of the dinosaurs?

SANDRA ÁLVAREZ-CARRETERO is a Post-doctoral researcher at University College London. Her team's latest research describes a new and fast computational approach to obtain precisely dated evolutionary trees, known as ‘timetrees’.

MARK from Evolution Soup goes into depth with Sandra on her work that involves DNA and data-crunching - which took up four years of her life.

#evolution #DNA #mammals



00:00 START
01:55 Dire Wolf Project
04:58 PCs & Paleontology
08:07 Mammals Project Overview
14:36 The 'Timetrees' Project
22:34 Conclusion: The Rise of Mammals
23:35 Future Projects



LINKS FOR SANDRA ÁLVAREZ:

TWITTER: @sabifo4
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SITE: https://github.com/sabifo4

UCL: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/

Queen Mary University London: https://www.qmul.ac.uk/


RESEARCH: "A Species-Level Timeline of Mammal Evolution Integrating Phylogenomic Data" is out in Nature: https://www.nature.com/articles/s4158...

EurekAlert on Mammal Timeline study: https://bit.ly/3Gy7gfP


Thumbnail art by Julio Lacerda @lacerda_julio



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