Edward O. Wiley

Division of Ichthyology
The University of Kansas
Natural History Museum
Dyche Hall
Lawrence, Kansas 66045-2454
Phone: (785) 864-4038
Fax: (785) 864-5335
e-mail: ewiley@ku.edu

I have both theoretical and empirical research programs.

My theoretical program is centered in two areas, phylogenetic systematics and evolution. Current theoretical interests are: (1) the ontology of species and monophyletic groups and their relationship to evolutionary theory and patterns of decent; and (2) the philosophy and methodology of Phylogenetic Systematics.

My empirical program is centered in three areas, speciation, phylogenetic relationships of higher taxa of fishes, and predictive niche modeling and biogeography using genetic algorithms. My work on speciation seeks a reproach between population genetic phenomena and macroevolutionary phenomena. Wiley and Hagen (1996) is an example. Several of my former students were actively engaged in studies of the phylogenetic relationships among species (Michael J. Ghedotti, Christopher Fielitz, Michael J. Grose, and Kevin L. Tang), a precursor of detailed work at finer levels using such tools as DNA sequencing. My work on the phylogenetic relationships among higher taxa of fishes has shifted from being primarily morphologically based to being based on both morphology and DNA sequence data. We (Walter Dimmick, myself and G. David Johnson of the Smithsonian, plus several former (Michael J. Grose, Kevin Tang, Peter B. Berendzen) and present (Nancy Holcroft Benson) graduate students work on the relationships of the higher teleosts (the acanthomorphs).

Ph.D., Biology, The City University of New York, City College, 1976. Advisor: D. E. Rosen.

M.A., Biology, Sam Houston State University, 1972.

B. S., Biology, Southwest Texas State University, 1966.

Wiley, E. O., and A. T. Peterson. 2004. Biodiversity and the Internet: Building and using the virtual world museum. In: Environmental Online Communication (A. Scharl, ed.). Springer-Verlag (London):91-99.

Wiley, E. O. 2003. Evolution as a phylogenetic research program. (Review of) The Nature of Diversity: An Evolutionary Voyage of Discovery by D. R. Brooks and D. A. McLennan, published by University of Chicago Press, 2002. Trands in Ecol. Evol. 18(5): 217-218.

Wiley, E. O. 2003. (Review of) Cladistics: A Practical Primer on CD-ROM by P. Skelton and A. Smith, with accompanying booklet by N. Monks, published by Cambridge University Press, NY. Quart. Rev. Biol. 78(4): 475-476.

Wiley, E. O., K. M. McNyset, A. T. Peterson, C. R. Robins, and A. M. Stewart. 2003. Niche modeling and geographic range predictions in the marine environment using a machine-learning algorithm. Oceanography 16(3):120-127.

Wiley, E. O., and A. T. Peterson. 2003. Distributed information systems and predictive biogeography: Putting natural history collections to work in the 21st Century. In: The New Panorama of Animal Evolution. Proc. 18th Int. Congress of Zoology (Legakiws, A., et al., eds.). Pensoft, Publ. Sofia, Bulgaria.: 619-624.

Wiley, E. O. 2003. On species and speciation. In: The New Panorama of Animal Evolution. Proc. 18th Int. Congress of Zoology (Legakiws, A., et al., eds.). Pensoft, Publ. Sofia, Bulgaria: 15-18. Invited.

Wiley, E. O. and M. J. Ghedotti. 2003. Cyprinodontidae. In: The Living Marine Resources of the Western Central Atlantic (K Cartender, ed.). Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations, Rome. Vol. 2:1158-1161.

Ghedotti, M. J., and E. O. Wiley. 2003. Poeciliidae. In: The Living Marine Resources of the Western Central Atlantic (K Cartender, ed.). Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations, Rome. Vol. 2:1154-1157.

Ghedotti, M. J. and, E. O. Wiley. 2003. Anablepidae. In: The Living Marine Resources of the Western Central Atlantic (K Cartender, ed.). Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations, Rome. Vol. 2:1152-1153.

Wiley, E. O. and M. J. Ghedotti. 2003. Fundulidae. In: The Living Marine Resources of the Western Central Atlantic (K Cartender, ed.). Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations, Rome. Vol. 2: 1147-1151.

Ghedotti, M. J., and E. O. Wiley. Ruvilidae. 2003. In: The Living Marine Resources of the Western Central Atlantic (K Cartender, ed.). Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations, Rome. Vol. 2:1145-1146.

Wiley, E. O. 2003. Lepisosteidae. In: F.A.O. Species Identification Sheets for Fisheries Purposes, Western Central Atlantic (K Cartender, ed.). Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations, Rome. Vol. 2: 672-678 R

Krishtalka, L., A.T. Peterson, D.A. Vieglais, J.H. Beach, and E.O. Wiley. 2002. The Green Internet: A Tool for Conservation Science. In: Conservation in the Internet Age: Strategic Threats and Opportunities (J. N. Levitt, ed.). Island Press, Washington, D.C.: 143-164.

Wiley, E.O. 2002. On species and speciation with reference to the fishes. Fish and Fisheries 3:1-10.

Grose, M.J., and E.O. Wiley. 2002. Phylogenetic relationships of the Hybopsis amblops species group (Teleostei: Cyprinidae). Copeia 2002(4): 1092-1097.

Wiley, E.O. 2002. Biological Classification. In: Life on Earth, Vol. 1 (N. Eldredge, ed.). ABC-CLIO, Inc. Santa Barbara, CA: 226-229.

Wiley, E.O. 2002. Linnaean hierarchy. In: Life on Earth, Vol. 2 (N. Eldredge, ed.). ABC-CLIO, Inc. Santa Barbara, CA: 475-479.

Wiley, E.O. 2002. Biological Classification. In: Life on Earth, Vol. 1 (N. Eldredge, ed.). ABC-CLIO, Inc. Santa Barbara, CA: 226-229.

Wiley, E.O. 2002. Phylogeny. In: Life on Earth, Vol. 2 (N. Eldredge, ed.). ABC-CLIO, Inc. Santa Barbara, CA: 556-558.

Wiley, E.O. 2002. Systematics. In: Life on Earth, Vol. 2 (N. Eldredge, ed.). ABC-CLIO, Inc. Santa Barbara, CA: 681-687.

Wiley, E.O. 2001. Biological classification. Kansas Biology Teacher 10(1): 14-17.

Wiley, E.O. 2001. Homology. Encyclopedia of Genetics. Academic Press, London.

Wiley, E.O. 2001. Eight shorter articles or entries. (Analogy, Apomorphy, Cladistics, Cladogram, Homoplasy, Plesiomorphy, Primitive Character Symplesiomorphy). Enclycopedia of Genetics, Academic Press, London.

Coleman, K.A., and E.O. Wiley. 2001. On species individualism: A new defense of the species-as-individuals hypothesis. Philo. Science 68:498-517.

Wiley, E.O. 2001. Biological classification. Kansas Biology Teacher 10(1): 14-17. (Invited)

Vieglais, D., E.O. Wiley, C.R. Robins, and A.T. Peterson. 2000. Harnessing museum resources for the Census of Marine Life: The FishNet project. Oceanography 13(3): 10-13.

Wiley, E.O., G.D. Johnson, and W.W. Dimmick. 2000. The relationships of acanthomorph fishes: A total evidence approach using molecular and morphological data. Biochemical Systematics and Ecology 28: 319-350.

Wiley, E.O., and R.L. Mayden. 2000a. The Evolutionary Species Concept. In: Species Concepts and Phylogenetic Systematics (Q. Wheeler and R. Meier, eds.). Columbia University Press, New York: 70-89.

Wiley, E.O., and R.L. Mayden. 2000b. A critique from the Evolutionary Species Concept perspective. In: Species Concepts and Phylogenetic Systematics (Q. Wheeler and R. Meier, eds.). Columbia University Press, New York: 146-158.

Wiley, E.O., and R.L. Mayden. 2000c. A defense of the Evolutionary Species Concept. In: Species Concepts and Phylogenetic Systematics (Q. Wheeler and R. Meier, eds.). Columbia University Press, New York: 198-208.

Tang, K.L., P.B. Berendzen, E.O. Wiley, J.F. Morrissey, R. Winterbottom, and G.D. Johnson. 1999. The phylogenetic relationships of the suborder Acanthuroidei (Teleostei: Perciformes) based on morphological and molecular evidence. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 11(3):415-425.

Titus, T.A., E.O. Wiley, and M. Allen. 1999. Allozyme variation in the longnose shiner, Hybopsis longirostris (Teleostei: Cyprinidae), a preliminary study. Bull. Alabama Mus. Nat. Hist.: 11-17.

Shaw, K., A.M. Simons, and E.O. Wiley. 1999. Re-examination of the phylogenetic relationships of the sand darters (Teleostei: Percidae). Occas. Pap. Mus. Nat. Hist. University of Kansas 12: 1-16

Wiley, E.O., G.D. Johnson, and W.W. Dimmick. 1998. The phylogenetic relationships of lampridiform fishes (Teleostei:Acanthomorpha), based on a total evidence analysis of morphological and molecular data. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 10(3): 417-425.

Wiley, E.O., and R.H. Hagen. 1997. Mitochondrial DNA sequence variation among the sand darters (Percidae: Teleostei). In: Molecular Evolution of Fishes (T. Kocher and C. Stepian, eds.) Academic Press, New York.

Reilly, S.M., E.O. Wiley, and D.J. Meinhardt. 1997. An integrative approach to heterochrony: The distinction between interspecific and intraspecific phenomena. Biol. J. Linnean Soc. London.

Shaw, K., E.O. Wiley, and T.A. Titus. 1995. A phylogenetic analysis of the Hybopsis amblops group. Occas. Pap. Nat. Hist. Mus. Univ. Kansas 172: 1-27.

Wiley, E.O., and D. Siegel-Causey. 1994. A phylogenetic analysis of the Lythrurus roseipinnis species group (Teleostei: Cyprinidae), with comments on the relationships of other Lythrurus. Occas. Pap. Nat. Hist. Mus. Univ. Kansas 171: 1-22.

Wiley, E.O. 1994. Bichirs and Their Allies. In: Encyclopedia of Animals: Fishes (J. Paxton, ed.). Weldon Owen Publ. Co., Sidney: 75-79. (Note: This is not a primary research paper, but I was glad to be invited to participate because of the authors involved.)

Wiley, E.O., and D. Siegel-Causey. 1994. A phylogenetic analysis of the Lythrurus roseipinnis species group (Teleostei: Cyprinidae), with comments on the relationship of other Lythrurus. Occas. Pap. Mus. Nat. Hist. Univ. Kansas No. 171: 1-20.

Wiley, E.O., and Tom A. Titus. 1992. Phylogenetic relationships among members of the Hybopsis dorsalis species group (Teleostei: Cyprinidae). Occas. Pap. Mus. Nat. Hist. Univ. Kansas. 152: 1-18.

Wiley, E.O. 1992. Phylogenetic relationships of the Percidae (Teleostei: Perciformes): A preliminary hypothesis. In: Systematics, Historical Ecology, and North American Freshwater Fishes (R. L. Mayden, ed.). Stanford University Press, Stanford, CA.: 247-267.

Mayden, R.L., and E.O. Wiley. 1992. The fundamentals of phylogenetic systematics. In: Systematics, Historical Ecology, and North American Freshwater Fishes (R.L. Mayden, ed.). Stanford University Press, Stanford, CA.: 114-185.

Gilbert, C.R., R.C. Cashner, and E.O. Wiley. 1992. Taxonomic and nomenclatural status of the banded topminnow, Fundulus cingulatus. Copeia 1992(3): 747-759.

Wiley, E.O., and Tom A. Titus. 1992. Phylogenetic relationships among members of the Hybopsis dorsalis species group (Teleostei: Cyprinidae). Occas. Pap. Mus. Nat. Hist. Univ. Kansas. 219: 1-18

Wiley, E.O., D. Siegel-Causey, D.R. Brooks, and V.A. Funk. 1991. The Compleat Cladist, A Primer of Phylogenetic Systematics. . 158pp. (Note: translated into Japanese in 1992 and into Chinese in 1996)

Wiley, E.O., A. Comuzzie, and M. Bamshad. 1990. More on human phylogeny and linguistic theory. Current Anthro. 31(3): 314-315.

Titus, Tom A., T. Schmidt, and E.O. Wiley. 1990. Soluble isocitrate dehydrogenase expression in ostariophysan fishes. Isozyme Bull. 23: 101.

Titus, Tom A., and E.O. Wiley. 1990. Cryptic variation in creatine kinase A in members of the Hybopsis dorsalis species group. Isozyme Bull. 23: 100.

Brooks, D.R., J. Collier, B.A. Mauer, J.D. Smith, and E.O. Wiley. 1989. Entropy and information in evolving biological systems. Biol. Philol. 4: 407-432.

Wiley, E.O. 1989. Kinds, individuals, and theories. In: What the Philosophy of Biology Is (M. Ruse, ed.). Kluwer Academic Publ., Dordrecht: 289-300.

Wiley, E.O. 1989. Entropy, evolution and progress. In: Evolutionary Progress (M. H. Nitecki, ed.), University of Chicago Press: 275-291.

Cloutier, R., H.-P. Schultze, E.O. Wiley, J.A. Musick, et al. 1988. Recent radiologic imaging techniques for morphological studies of Latimeria chalumnae. Environ. Biol. Fishes 23(4): 281-282.

Wiley, E.O. 1988. Parsimony analysis and vicariance biogeography. Syst. Zool. 37: 271-290.

Wiley, E.O. 1988. Vicariance Biogeography. Ann. Rev. Ecol. Syst. 19: 513-542.

Wiley, E.O. 1988. Entropy and evolution. In: Entropy, Information, and Evolution (B.H. Weber, D.J. Depew, and J.D. Smith, eds.). MIT Press, Cambridge, MA : 173-188.

Brooks, D.R., and E.O. Wiley. 1988. Evolution as Entropy. Second Edition. University of Chicago Press, Chicago. 415pp.

Wiley, E.O. 1987. (review of) Evolution and Classification: The Reformation of Cladistics by Mark Ridely. Quart. Rev. Biol. 62: 293-295.

Wiley, E.O. 1987. Historical ecology and coevolution. In: Systematics and evolution: a matter of diversity (P. Hovenkamp, ed.). Univ. Utrecht: 331-341.

Wiley, E.O. 1987. Methods in vicariance biogeography. In: Systematics and evolution: a matter of diversity (P. Hovenkamp, ed.). Univ. Utrecht: 283-306.

Wiley, E.O. 1987. Process and pattern. Cladograms and trees. In: Systematics and evolution: a matter of diversity (P. Hovenkamp, ed.). Univ. Utrecht: 233-247.

Wiley, E.O. 1987. Approaches to outgroup comparison. In: Systematics and evolution: a matter of diversity (P. Hovenkamp, ed.). Univ. Utrecht: 173-191.

Wiley, E.O. 1987. The evolutionary basis for phylogenetic classification. In: Systematics and evolution: a matter of diversity (P. Hovenkamp, ed.). Univ. Utrecht: 55-64.

Wiley, E.O. 1987. La sistematica en la revolution Darwiniana. An. Mus. Nat. Valparaiso (1986): 25-31.

Wiley, E.O., and D.R. Brooks. 1987. A response to Professor Morowitz. Biol. Philo. 2: 369-374.

Wiley, E.O. 1986. Phylogenetic systematics. McGraw-Hill Yearbook of Science and Technology. McGraw-Hill, NY: 343-346.

Brooks, D.R., and E.O. Wiley. 1986. Evolution as Entropy: Toward a Unified Theory of Biology. Univ. of Chicago Press, Chicago. 335pp.

Brooks, D.R., J. Collier, and E.O. Wiley. 1986. Definitions of terms and the essence of theories: A reply to J. S. Wicken. Syst. Zool. 35: 640-647.

Brooks, D.R., R.T. O'Grady, and E.O. Wiley. 1986. A measure of the information content of phylogenetic trees, and its usefulness as an optimality criterion. Syst. Zool. 35: 571-581.

Wiley, E.O., and D. Kornet. 1986. (review of) The Structure of Biological Science by Alexander Rosenberg. Syst. Zool. 35: 262-265.

Hocutt, C.H., and E.O. Wiley (eds.). 1986. The Zoogeography of North American Freshwater Fishes. Wiley-Interscience, NY. 865 pp.

Wiley, E.O., and R.L. Mayden. 1985. Species and speciation in phylogenetic systematics, with examples from the North American fish fauna. Ann. Missouri Bot. Gard. 72: 596-635.

Wiley, E.O. 1985. A study of the evolutionary relationships of Fundulus topminnows (Teleostei: Fundulidae). Amer. Zool 26: 121-130.

Churchill, S.P., E.O. Wiley, and L.A. Hauser. 1985. Biological realities and the proper methodology: A reply to Duncan. Taxon 34: 124-130.

Brooks, D.R., and E.O. Wiley. 1985. Theories and different approaches to systematics. Cladistics 1: 1-14.

Brooks, D.R., and E.O. Wiley. 1985. Nonequilibrium thermodynamics and evolution.-Responses to Bookstein and Wicken. Syst. Zool. 34: 89-97.

Schultze, H.-P., and E.O. Wiley. 1984. The neopterygian Amia as a living fossil. In: Casebook on Living Fossils (N. Eldredge and S. Stanley, eds.). Springer-Verlag, NY: : 153-159.

Wiley, E.O., and H.-P. Schultze. 1984. Family Lepisosteidae (Gars) as living fossils. In: Casebook on Living Fossils (N. Eldredge and S. Stanley, eds.). Springer-Verlag, NY: 160-165.

Mayden, R.L., and E.O. Wiley.1984. A method for preparing disarticulated skeletons of small fishes. Copeia 1984: 230-232.

Churchill, S.P., E.O. Wiley, and L.A. Hauser. 1984. A critique of Wagner Ground-Plan studies and a comparison with other methods of phylogenetic analysis. Taxon 33: 212-232.

Brooks, D.R., and E.O. Wiley. 1984. Evolution as an entropic phenomenon. In: Evolutionary Theory, Paths Into the Future (J. W. Pollard, ed.). John Wiley & Sons, London: 141-171.

Wiley, E.O., and D.R. Brooks. 1983. Nonequilibrium thermodynamics and evolution: A response to Løvtrup. Syst. Zool. 32: 209-219.

Wiley, E.O., and D.R. Brooks. 1982. Victims of history -- A nonequilibrium approach to evolution. Syst. Zool. 31: 1-24.

Wiley, E.O. 1981. Preface. Advances in Cladistics, vol. 1. New York Bot. Grad., NY: vii-ix.

Wiley, E.O. 1981. Phylogenetics. The Theory and Practice of Phylogenetic Systematics. Wiley-Interscience, New York. 439pp. (Note: translated into Japanese in 1991)

Wiley, E.O. 1981. Convex groups and consistent classifications. Syst. Bot. 6(4): 346-358.

Wiley, E.O. 1980. The metaphysics of individuality and its consequences for systematic biology. Behavioral and Brain Sci. 4(2): 302-303.

Wiley, E.O., and J.D. Stewart. 1980. Urenchelys abditus, the first undoubted eel from the Cretaceous of North America. J. Vert. Paleont. 1(1): 43-47.

Wiley, E.O. 1980. Must phylogenetic classification be so complicated? Syst. Zool. 29: 309-313.

Wiley, E.O. 1980. Is the evolutionary species fiction?-- A consideration of classes, individuals and historical entities. Syst. Zool. 29: 76-80.

Wiley, E.O. 1980. Phylogenetic systematics and vicariance biogeography. Syst. Bot. 5(2): 195-220.

Wiley, E.O. 1979. Ventral gill arch muscles and the phylogenetic relationships of Latimeria. Occ. Pap. California Acad. Sci. 134: 56-67.

Wiley, E.O. 1979. individual species accounts of) Atractosteus spatula (p. 47), Lepisosteus oculatus (p. 48), Lepisosteus osseus (p. 49), Fundulus blairae (p. 508), Fundulus escambiae (p. 515), Fundulus lineolatus (p. 519), and Fundulus nottii (p. 522). In: Atlas of North American Freshwater Fishes (Lee et al., eds). North Carolina State Museum of Natural History, Raleigh.

Fink, W.L., and E.O. Wiley. 1979. "Cladism defended" (a letter). Nature 280: 542.

Wiley, E.O. 1979. Ventral gill arch muscles and gnathostome phylogeny, with a new classification of vertebrates. Zool. J. Linnean Soc. 67: 149-179.

Wiley, E.O. 1979. An annotated Linnean hierarchy, with comments on natural taxa and competing systems. Syst. Zool. 28: 308-337.

Wiley, E.O. 1979. Cladograms and phylogenetic trees. Syst. Zool. 28: 88-92.

Wiley, E.O. 1979. Ancestors, species and cladograms.-- Remarks on the symposium. In: Phylogenetic Analysis and Paleontology (J. Cracraft and N. Eldredge, eds.). Columbia University Press, NY: 211-225.

Wiley, E.O. 1978. Family Lepisosteidae. Family Cyprinodontidae. Family Poecilidae. Family Anablepidae. In: F.A.O. Species Identification Sheets for Fisheries Purposes, Western Central Atlantic (W. Fisher, ed.). Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations, Rome.

Wiley, E.O. 1978. The evolutionary species concept reconsidered. Syst. Zool. 27: 17-26.

Wiley, E.O., and J.D. Stewart. 1977. A gar (Lepisosteus sp.) from the marine Niobrara Formation of western Kansas. Copeia 1977: 761-762.

Wiley, E.O. 1977. Are monotypic genera paraphyletic? -- A response to Norman Platnick. Syst. Zool. 26: 352-355.

Wiley, E.O. 1977. (review of) Epigenetics, a Treatise on Theoretical Biology by Søren Løvtrup. Syst. Zool. 26: 238-243.

Wiley, E.O. 1977. The phylogeny and systematics of the Fundulus nottii species group (Teleostei: Cyprinodontidae). Occas. Pap. Mus. Nat. Hist. Univ. Kansas. 67: 1-31.

Engelmann, G.F., and E.O. Wiley. 1977. The place of ancestor-descendant relationships in phylogeny reconstruction. Syst. Zool. 26: 1-11.

Bailey, R.M., and E.O. Wiley. 1976. Identification of the cyprinodontid fish Hydrogira swampina Lec�pede. Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington 89(4): 475-478.

Wiley, E.O. 1976. The systematics and biogeography of fossil and Recent gars (Acintopterygii: Lepisosteidae). Misc. Publ. Mus. Nat. Hist. Univ. Kansas 64: 1-111.

Wiley, E.O. 1975. (review of) Darwin Retried by Norman Macbeth. Syst. Zool. 24: 269-270.

Wiley, E.O. 1975. Karl R. Popper, systematics and classification: A reply to Walter Bock and other evolutionary taxonomists. Syst. Zool. 24: 233-243.

Wiley, E.O., and D.D. Hall. 1975. Fundulus blairae, a new species of the Fundulus nottii complex. Amer. Mus. Nov. 2577: 1-14.

Wiley, E.O. In Press. Phylogenetics. The Theory and Practice of Phylogenetic Systematics. 2nd Edition. Wiley-Interscience, New York.

Presentations from 1994 - present

13 September 2001. Invited Presentation. Predictive Niche Modeling and Biogeography in the Ocean Environment: Examples from the Fishes. U.S. National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution. Washington, D.C.

4 April 2001. Reference Conditions and Landscape-Scale Bioassessment Workship. Invited paper: "Predictive Biogeography: Putting Natural History Collections to Work in the 21st Century." Lawrence, KS.

27 August 2000. XVIIIth International Congress of Zoology. Opening Lecture: "On Species and Speciation." Athens, Greece.

24 February 2000. International Symposium on Diversity of Fishes. Invited Lecture: "Fishes and Phylogenetics." Tokyo, Japan.

3 November 1999. Census of Marine Life: Workshop on the Ocean Biogeographic Information System. Invited Presentation: "FISHNET and OBIS." Washington, D.C.

10 July 1999. UN FAO Workshop on Western Central Atlantic Fishes. Invited Lecture: "A Predictive Data Network for Marine Fish Diversity."

4 December 1998. Virginia Institute of Marine Sciences. Invited Lecture: "Species as Individuals. A Matter of Ontology."

17 April 1998. University of Toronto. C.H. Atwood Lecture: "Hierarchies, Evolution, Natural Kinds, and Individuals: Why It Matters."

29-30 January 1997. Michigan State University. Invited Lecture. "A history of Hennigian systematics in the U.S." Seminar: "Mitochondrial DNA sequence variation among the sand darters (Percidae: Teleostei)."

27-28 January 1997. University of Michigan. Invited Seminar: "Mitochondrial DNA sequence variation among the sand darters (Percidae: Teleostei)." Informal Talk: "DNA variation and acanthomorph relationships."

18 June 1996. American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists Symposium: "Systematics and Genetics of Fishes: Mitochondrial DNA sequence variation among the sand darters (Percidae, Teleostei)." (With R. H. Hagen)

17 June 1995. American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists Symposium: "The Interrelationships of Fishes Revisited. Interrelationships of Acanthomorph Fishes: A Total Evidence Approach." (With W. W. Dimmick and G. D. Johnson)

10 March 1995. Kansas State University. "Pattern and Process in Speciation. An Example from North American Fishes."

6 March 1995. University of New Orleans. Seminar: "Studying Speciation in North American Freshwater Fishes: An Example from the Northern Gulf Coast."

10 February 1995. Kansas State University. Seminar:"Studying Speciation."

6 February 1995. Southwest Texas State University.Seminar: "Species and Speciation in North American Freshwater Fishes" Informal Seminar: "Phylogenetic Systematics and Evolution."

4 June 1994. American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists Symposium: Evolution of Fishes Inferred from DNA Sequences. Los Angeles, CA. "Phylogenetic Relationships of Acanthomorph Fishes Using DNA Sequencing: A Progress Report"

27-28 April, 1994. University of Chicago. Invited lecture. "Evolution as an Entropic Process."