Kim Dolphin has successfully defended her dissertation, Proximate and Ultimate Mechanisms of Plasticity in Mating Strategies in the Trinidadian Guppy. Dr. Dolphin will soon become a faculty member at Hutchinson Community College in Hutchinson, Kansas to pursue her passion in teaching.
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Our primary goal is to understand the processes that shape evolutionary trajectories. We focus on the mechanisms of convergent evolution of behavioral and morphological traits. We link molecular, neural, and developmental mechanisms to their consequences for organismal phenotypes, and we investigate the neural and hormonal mechanisms of context- or experience-dependent changes in behavior.
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