Talks

Available on the blog:

• History of Life on Earth
• Natural Selection
• The Scientific Method, Exemplified by Palaeontology
• Lamarckism
• Spiders

Not yet written up as above:

• The Evolution of Central Nervous Systems
• Extinction Rates Through Time
• The Development of Mediterranean Coral Reefs: Insights from Cypriot Palaeontology

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My lecture database currently stands at 25GB because of my copious amount of public lecturing; however, due to time constraints and the textless nature of my slides, I cannot dump them all here without writing explanatory texts – and that would take a very long time. So, if any of these (not a comprehensive list) sound interesting, e-mail me and I’ll work on it and get it up ASAP.

Arthropods

• Arthropods as Human Food
• Arthropod Brains
• Arthropod Head Evolution: A Palaeontological Perspective
• Arthropod-Plant Interactions
• Arthropods: Higher-Level Systematics
• Arthropods of Cyprus: Research Potential
• Biology of xyz [where xyz = any arthropod taxa/taxon]; Spiders
• Blood-Sucking Insects
• Butterfly Wing Pattern Generation
• Chelicerates
• Crustacean Relationships
• Evo-Devo in Arthropods
• Hymenopteran Phylogeny, with a Focus on Basal Hymenoptera
• Insect Collection and Conservation
• Insect Development [also for other/all arthropods]
• Insect Diversity [also for other/all arthropods]
• Insect Evolution [also for other/all arthropods]
• Insect Morphology [also for other/all arthropods]
• Insect Physiology [also for other/all arthropods]
• Insects and Oxygen
• Tardigradan Physiology
• The Pentastomida
• The Winged Insects [incl. fossil record]

Botany

• Evo-Devo in Angiosperms
• Origin and Evolution of Angiosperms
• Plant Defences: Ecological and Evolutionary Implications

Climate Change

• Climate Change and its Effect on the Biosphere
• The Science Behind Anthropogenic Climate Change

Ecology

• Archaean Ecology [the microorganisms, not the geological period]
• Cryptic Diversity: Implications for Conservation and Evolution
• Serpentine Ecology
• The Deep Sea

Evolution

• Clearing Up the Commonest Creationist Fallacies
• Coevolution
• Development and Evolution
• Evolution in the Mainstream
• Levels of Selection
• Macroevolution: Patterns and Processes
• Natural Selection
• Species Concepts
• The Geographical Aspect of Evolution

Geology

• Cyprus
• Historical Geology
• Sedimentology
• The History of Earth’s Climate

Historical

• Alfred Russel Wallace
• Biology in Antiquity [Ancient Greek, Ancient Roman]
• Biology of the Medieval Period [Arabic/Islamic, Christian]
• Biology in the Renaissance Period
• Biology in the Enlightenment
• Beetles: 6 Millenia of Classification
• Burgess Shale Centennary: The History of the Burgess Shale
• Charles Darwin
• Ernst Haeckel
• Evolution at the Beginning of the 20^th Century
• Evolution since Darwin
• Jean-Baptiste Lamarck; Lamarckism
• Major Figures in the History of Evolution (1850-1950)
• The Evolution of “Evolution”: Pre-Darwinian Thoughts to a Post-Darwinian Future
• The History of Phylogenetics
• The Rise of the Scientific Method

Palaeontology

• Cyprus
• Early Animals: Their Fossil Record and Its Significance
• Faxe: A 63Ma Deep- and Cold-Water Coral Reef
• Phyllocarida in the Fossil Record
• Sites of Exceptional Preservation
• Spiders in the Fossil Record
• Stem-Group Arthropods
• Taphonomical Windows: A Molluscan Example
• The Evolution of Flowers
• The Fossil Record’s Completeness
• The History of Life on Earth [abstracts and links here]
• The Hunsrück Slate: Post-1998 Discoveries
• The Utility of Palaeontology for Evolution

Phylogenetics

• Brains: A Case Study in Homologisation
• DNA Barcoding
• How to Build a Tree: Philosophy, Methodology and Problems
• Metazoan Phylogeny: Old vs. New
• Morphology as a Guide to Phylogeny
• Principles and Rules of Taxonomy
• Sponge Phylogeny
• Systematic Wandering of the Deuterostome Mouth
• Systematics of: Metazoa, Mollusca, Arthropoda (Crustacea; Insecta (Coleoptera, Hymenoptera); Chelicerata; Myriapoda; Stem-Group); Annelida; Deuterostomia (Echinodermata; Vertebrata (Primates))
• The Bilaterian Common Ancestor
• The Molecular Clock [Short version, Pt. 1 here]
• The Philosophy of Systematics

Zoology

• Alvinellidae (Annelida: Polychaeta): Life on Hydrothermal Vents
• Animal Agriculture
• Animal Diversity [All 30+ phyla, not just the famous ones!]
• Ascidian Development
• Bioluminsecence
• Comparative Neurology [can be narrowed to any taxon]
• Morphology, Physiology, and Systematics of xyz [xyz = any invertebrate taxon/taxa]
• Parasitism
• Senses in Basal Metazoans
• Sociality
• Sponges
• Strepsipteran Parasitism
• The Origin of the Nervous System
• Wolbachia and its Effect on Evolution

Non-Biological Talks: Mythology

• Creation Myths: Commonalities and insights from phylogenetics
• Creation Myths in xyz [where xyz = culture, geographical area]
• The Early History of Christianity

Non-Biological Talks: Philosophy

• Philosophy of Biology
• Philosophy of Systematics
• The Scientific Method, Exemplified By Palaeontology

Non-Biological Talks: Pseudoscience

• Astrology
• Climate Change Denialism
• Creationism [ideology, history, debunking of]
• Pseudoscience
• Quack medicine [homeopathy, acupuncture, chiropractic, New German Medicine, Traditional Chinese Medicine, reikki, herbalism, faith healing]