Michael S. Y. Lee

Anthropogenic effects, not climatic, shaped Holocene population expansion of an insular bee fauna

The paper investigates the impact of human activity versus climate change on bee population expansion in Fiji, finding that human occupation, not climate, drove population growth in lowland species.

Trait-space disparity in fish communities spanning 380 million years from the Late Devonian to present

This study compares trait-space diversity in Late Devonian and modern fish communities, finding temporal and habitat-related variations in functional richness and species similarity.

Cryptovaranoides is not a squamate

This paper challenges the classification of the fossil Cryptovaranoides microlanius as a crown squamate, highlighting issues with the morphological analysis supporting this claim.

Where do the Dmanisi hominins fit on the human evolutionary tree?

This study uses parsimony analyses to determine the evolutionary placement of Dmanisi hominins, proposing two species: Homo georgicus and an unnamed species.