The Burgess Shale, Arthropods and Macroevolution - Professor Matthew Wills
The Director of the Milner Centre for Evolution, Professor Turi King, talks to Professor Matthew Wills about his career, his current research, and his passion for all things evolution.
00:00 Introduction
00:26 What got you into Paleobiology?
01:42 What did you do as your undergraduate degree?
02:12 Studying the Burgess Shale.
03:55 Studying Arthropods from the Burgess Shale.
09:32 Working at the Smithsonian Museum and studying the Cambrian.
11:08 Charles Darwin’s dilemma
12:43 Studying macroevolutionary processes.
16:52 How is molecular analysis changing the way evolution is studied?
22:23 Why is the study of evolution so important?
24:38 The evolution of complexity.