Very well deserved. Congratulations, David!
On Tue, 15 Jul 2025, 21:51 Eric Delson, <[email protected]> wrote: > On October 22, 2025, the eighth Rohlf Medal for Excellence in Morphometric > Methods and Applications will be awarded to P. David Polly, Professor of > Paleontology in the Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences at Indiana > University, Bloomington. He received his PhD in 1993 from the University of > California, Berkeley, and spent 10 years at the University of London (UK) > before joining Indiana in 2006, with visiting appointments at Yale, the > Australian National University and Helsinki. Polly has developed new > frameworks for evolutionary and ecological analysis using morphometrics. He > developed one of the early solutions to representing 3D surfaces with > geometric morphometrics, later referred to as eigensurface analysis. He > combined this approach with his work on evolutionary modeling of geometric > morphometric structures to show how rates and modes of complex functional > traits could be used to redefine and analyze adaptive zones using his > “adaptive peak model”. He has studied problems of morphological > integration, modularity and evolvability, for example examining modular > structure in vertebrate body plans in an explicitly phylogenetic context, > which showed that HOX-mediated regionalization was present in the last > tetrapod ancestor and has been accentuated in birds and mammals compared to > lizards and snakes. He also taught numerous short courses on morphometrics > and has supervised dozens of PhD students as advisor or committee member. > Polly’s current and future morphometric work is focused on spatial > processes in phenotypic evolution and on evolutionary ecology and > “ecometrics” of complex morphological traits. These and other advances, > including the development of freely-available software packages, led the > Committee to award the 2025 Rohlf Medal to Professor P. David Polly. > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Morphmet" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/morphmet2/MN2PR14MB339244EA099595494B937F6DA057A%40MN2PR14MB3392.namprd14.prod.outlook.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/morphmet2/MN2PR14MB339244EA099595494B937F6DA057A%40MN2PR14MB3392.namprd14.prod.outlook.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Morphmet" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/morphmet2/CALNNVVE8txvnrv84w-_sYwjcqaymtcSCH7mMeYi9ijZvwa-AmQ%40mail.gmail.com.
