BRS Jimmy McGuire: Hidden radiation and unexpected paths to speciation on Sulawesi: three decades of fieldwork and discovery

host: Doug Altshuler

Title talk: Hidden radiation and unexpected paths to speciation on Sulawesi: three decades of fieldwork and discovery

Short biography: Jim’s primary research interests are in phylogenetics, population genetics, biogeography, and comparative biology of reptiles, amphibians, and hummingbirds. He is particularly interested in how complex faunas, such as those of Sulawesi and Indonesia’s Lesser Sunda Islands, have been assembled over time, as well as the processes underpinning diversification, and how species both form and sometimes merge again following secondary contact. Jim has a long-standing interest in hummingbird adaptation to high-elevation environments. A more recent interest is the elevational diversification of amphibians and reptiles on the mountains of Sulawesi.