Controls on the Evolution of Organism Size over the Past Four Billion Years
Jonathan Payne - Professor of Geological Sciences
Bio-X Affiliated Faculty
Dr. Payne's research group studies the relationship between environmental change and biological evolution in the fossil record.
Stanford Bio-X Seed Grants
Understanding Pterosaur Flight An Interdisciplinary Study of Flight and Wing Dynamics
Interdisciplinary Initiatives Program Round 3 – 2006
Environmental control of cell and genome size: A case study of Foraminifera
Interdisciplinary Initiatives Program Round 5 – 2010
Research News
Oxygen-starved oceans held back life's recovery after the Great Dying, Stanford researchers find
February 17, 2016 - Stanford Report
Under Bio-X affiliate Jonathan Payne, analysis of ancient seabed rocks from disparate locations reveal that...
Animals tend to evolve toward larger sizes over time, Stanford study finds
February 19, 2015 - Stanford Report
New Stanford research under Bio-X affiliated faculty member Jonathan Payne shows that animals tend to evolve...
Stanford researchers discover that animal functional diversity started out poor, became richer over time
March 4, 2015 - Stanford Report
A study by Bio-X affiliated faculty member Jonathan Payne refutes a hypothesis by the famed evolutionary biologist...