{"id":33,"date":"2014-02-18T15:28:14","date_gmt":"2014-02-18T15:28:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/synergy.st-andrews.ac.uk\/cbd\/?page_id=33"},"modified":"2022-02-25T14:37:03","modified_gmt":"2022-02-25T14:37:03","slug":"rt2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/biology.st-andrews.ac.uk\/biodiversity\/research-overview\/rt2\/","title":{"rendered":"The Evolutionary Origins of Biological Diversity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Theodosius Dobzhansky famously wrote that \u201cnothing in biology makes sense except in the light of evolution\u201d. This is especially true for understanding biological diversity: research in the Centre for Biological Diversity focuses on how diversity is generated, and the evolutionary forces that maintain or erode it. The Centre for Biological Diversity has world-leading research programmes in the study of population diversification and speciation, which is the ultimate origin of biodiversity at the level of the species and above.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Find Out More: Research Groups<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/synergy.st-andrews.ac.uk\/cbd\/person\/mgr\/\" target=\"blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Prof. Michael Ritchie<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/synergy.st-andrews.ac.uk\/cbd\/person\/oeg\/\" target=\"blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Prof. Oscar Gaggiotti<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/synergy.st-andrews.ac.uk\/cbd\/person\/nwb3\/\" target=\"blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Dr. Nathan Bailey<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Associated Degree Programmes<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/biology.st-andrews.ac.uk\/undergraduate\/\" target=\"blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Undergraduate Degree Programmes<\/a><br \/>\nUndergraduate Field Courses<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/biology.st-andrews.ac.uk\/postgraduate\/\" target=\"blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Masters Programmes<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Key Publications<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Theodosius Dobzhansky famously wrote that \u201cnothing in biology makes sense except in the light of evolution\u201d. This is especially true for understanding biological diversity: research in the Centre for Biological Diversity focuses on how diversity is generated, and the evolutionary forces that maintain or erode it. The Centre for Biological Diversity has world-leading research programmes&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"parent":29,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-33","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/biology.st-andrews.ac.uk\/biodiversity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/33","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/biology.st-andrews.ac.uk\/biodiversity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/biology.st-andrews.ac.uk\/biodiversity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biology.st-andrews.ac.uk\/biodiversity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biology.st-andrews.ac.uk\/biodiversity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/biology.st-andrews.ac.uk\/biodiversity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/33\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biology.st-andrews.ac.uk\/biodiversity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/29"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/biology.st-andrews.ac.uk\/biodiversity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}