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Professor Mike Lee

Professor
Biological Sciences
Flinders University
Australia

Professor General Science
Biography

I am interested in broad-scale patterns of evolution, such as major changes in body plan, or why some groups speciate much more rapidly than others. Reptiles are typically the research focus, though I also collaborate with workers on other groups such as birds, mammals and even arthropods. We have recently obtained major funding to work on snake evolution (see below). I grew up in Queensland (mainly Brisbane) in the 80s, and spent most of my childhood catching and examining any creature that moved, much to my parents horror. I now ostensibly get to do this for a living, except that with encroaching age and committments my research is moving more into theoretical and computational areas. I think Bayesian methods are the future of science.

Research Intrest

Evolutionary biology Other earth sciences Zoology

List of Publications
Llamas, B., Brotherton, P.M., Mitchell, K.J., Templeton, J.E., Thomson, V.A., Metcalf, J., et al. (2015). Late Pleistocene Australian Marsupial DNA Clarifies the Affinities of Extinct Megafaunal Kangaroos and Wallabies. MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION, 32(3) pp. 574-584.
Paterson, J.R., Garcia-Bellido, D.C., Jago, J.B., Gehling, J.G., Lee, M.S. and Edgecombe, G.D. (2016). The Emu Bay Shale Konservat-Lagerstätte: a view of Cambrian life from East Gondwana. JOURNAL OF THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY, 173 pp. 1-11.
Worthy, T., Mitri, M., Handley, W.D., Lee, M.S., Anderson, A. and Sand, C. (2016). Osteology supports a stem-Galliform affinity for the giant extinct flightless bird Sylviornis neocaledoniae (Sylviornithidae, Galloanseres). PLoS One, 11(3) pp. Art: e0150871.
Lee, M.S., Sanders, K.L., King, B. and Palci, A. (2016). Diversification rates and phenotypic evolution in venomous snakes (Elapidae) Royal Society Open Science, 3(1) pp. 150277.
King, B., Qiao, T., Lee, M.S., Min, Z. and Long, J.A. (2016). Bayesian Morphological ClockMethods Resurrect Placoderm Monophyly and Reveal Rapid Early Evolution in Jawed Vertebrates. Systematic Biology,

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