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Newsletter Number 60 The Palaeontology Newsletter Contents 60 Association Business 2 Association Meetings 6 From our correspondents A module on modularity in Evo-Devo 10 Museum as Muse 13 Scotoma of Systematics 18 Cladistics for Palaeontologists 26 Palaeo-math 101: Factor Analysis 38 Mystery Fossil 52 Obituaries: Norman Dennis Newell 53 Nancy Kirk 56 Exhibition: Creatures of the Burgess Shale 59 Meeting Reports 60 Future meetings of other bodies 66 Progressive Palaeontology 2006 72 Book Reviews 73 Discounts for PalAss members 99 Palaeontology vol 48 parts 5 & 6 100–101 Palaeontologia Electronica 8,2 102 Oxford abstracts following page 104 Reminder: The deadline for copy for Issue no 61 is 20th February 2006. On the Web: <http://palass.org/> ISSN: 0954-9900 Newsletter 60 2 Newsletter 60 3 Association Business Grants in aid for IPC 2006, Beijing The Palaeontological Association wishes to show its support for the International Palaeontological Reviving the Annual Association field Congress to be held in Beijing on 17–21 June 2006, by making a number of travel grants available to meeting? students. The awards will be up to £500 (pounds sterling) each and will be made payable to the student’s This item comes under the disguise of market research. A number of members have expressed Department, specifically for the support of his or her attendance at the meeting. The awards will be concern that the Association field meeting has disappeared from our calendar of events. In the past made to students who are members of the Palaeontological Association, about which more can be this meeting provided a forum for members to discuss our science, in the best place, by the outcrop. found at <http://www.palass.org/> I am therefore seeking: The on-line Membership site is at <https://www.palass.org/catalog>. a) your views on re-establishing this meeting, Awards will only be made to those who are making a presentation at the Conference, and the b) volunteers who might offer a weekend field excursion in 2006. selection of the award recipients will be made on the basis of the Abstract for the presentation, as Please send responses to <[email protected]>. well as on such other criteria as the selection panel may think important. Application for the awards should be made by e-mail. The application should arrive by Reminder about web awards 1st December 2005 in the first instance. It cannot be guaranteed that the application period will be extended if a sufficient number of applications are received by this date. The number of websites nominated for the “Golden Trilobite Award” was disappointing this year. If you wish to apply, please send the following information, in an e-mail entitled ‘IPC 2006 grant There were no professional sites nominated and all the amateur sites were focused on trilobites. application’, to <[email protected]>: This is a reminder that nominations can be submitted at any time during the year; decisions are made in September. (See <http://www.palass.org/> for rubric.) 1. Your name, institutional address, phone number, and e-mail. Howard Armstrong 2. A brief statement (not more than 50 words) saying what you are researching into, the research Secretary degree that you are hoping to obtain, when you expect to obtain it, and the name of your <[email protected]> research supervisor(s) / advisor(s). 3. A copy of the Abstract for your presentation at the IPC Beijing conference. 4. A brief statement of your estimated travel costs. 5. The name, address, phone number and e-mail of the financial administrator at your institution with whom we can communicate if the application is successful. Tim Palmer Executive Officer <[email protected]> Newsletter 60 4 Newsletter 60 5 SYNTHESYS SYNTHESYS Project funding is available to provide scientists based in European Member and Associated States to undertake short visits to utilize the infrastructure at one of the 20 partner institutions for the purposes of their research. The 20 partner institutions are organised into 11 national Taxonomic Facilities (TAFs). The 11 TAF institutions represent an unparalleled resource for taxonomic research offering: • Collections amounting to over 337 million natural history specimens, including 3.3 million type specimens. • Internationally renowned taxonomic and systematic skill base. • Chemical analysis. Palaeontology: • Molecular and imaging facilities. CALL FOR SHORT PAPERS! SYNTHESYS is able to meet the users’ costs for research costs, international travel, local accommodation, and a per diem to contribute towards living costs. From January 2005 Palaeontology is published in A4 size with a new Forthcoming deadlines: 17th March 2006 layout. In line with this development, space will be reserved for rapid 15th September 2006 publication of short papers on topical issues, exceptional new discoveries and major developments that have important implications for evolution, For more information visit <http://www.synthesys.info/> or contact <[email protected]>. palaeoclimate, depositional environments and other matters of general interest to palaeontologists. Papers, which should not exceed six printed pages, should be submitted in the normal way, but they will be refereed rapidly and fast tracked, on acceptance, for publication in the next available issue. Submission of longer review papers is also encouraged, and these too will be given priority for rapid publication. While Palaeontology maintains its reputation for scientific quality and presentation, these developments will ensure that the Impact Factor of the journal reflects its status as a leading publication in the field (rising to 1.19 in 2003). Newsletter 5609 6 Newsletter 6059 7 ASSOCIATION MEETINGS Outline programme Sunday 18th December Seminar: Ediacaran biotas, Oxford University Museum of Natural History. Talks will be given by: 49th Annual Meeting Doug Erwin (Smithonian Institution, Washington): The origin and relationships of early animals. Oxford, UK 18 – 21 December 2005 Guy Narbonne (Queen’s University, Kingston): Earth’s earliest Ediacarans. The 49th Annual Meeting of the Palaeontological Association will be held in the Oxford University Mary Droser (Riverside University, California): Palaeoecology of the Ediacaran biota. Museum of Natural History, under the auspices of the University Museum and the Department of Shuhai Xiao (Virginia Polytechnic Institute, Virginia): Palaeobiology of the Doushantuo Earth Sciences. Formation: the first 80 million years of the Ediacaran Period. Before the main meeting, on the afternoon of Sunday 18th December, there will be a seminar in Martin Brasier (University of Oxford, UK): Decoding the Ediacaran enigma. the University Museum on Ediacaran biotas. This seminar will be free to conference participants. It Evening reception: Oxford University Museum of Natural History will be followed on Sunday evening by a reception in the University Museum to welcome delegates. Monday 19th December The technical sessions will consist of two days of talks on 19th and 20th December in the lecture theatre of the University Museum, together with poster presentations situated adjacent to the Scientific sessions, Oxford University Museum of Natural History lecture theatre. The talks and posters will be open to all aspects of palaeontology. The talks will Annual address: William Buckland and the dawning of palaeoecology, by W.J. Kennedy (Oxford be scheduled for 15 minutes inclusive of questions and there will not be any parallel sessions. University, Museum of Natural History) Depending on submissions for oral presentations, some talks may have to be re-scheduled as posters. On Wednesday 21st December there will be a field excursion to the Mesozoic of Oxfordshire. Reception, Blackwell’s Bookshop, Oxford Venue and travel Annual Dinner, Christ Church College Information about the city can be obtained on <http://www.oxfordcity.co.uk/>, and about the University on <http://www.ox.ac.uk/>. Oxford is easily reached from London airports, as well as Tuesday 20th December those of Birmingham, Bristol and many other regional centres. It has frequent transport services Scientific Sessions, Oxford University Museum of Natural History from central London, from where it is reached in about an hour by train, and about one and a half hours by coach. Presentation of awards Accommodation Wednesday 21st December This will be in St Anne’s College, which is situated about five minutes’ walk from the University Post-Conference field excursion to the Jurassic and Cretaceous of Oxfordshire Museum. There will be a range of accommodation with different facilities and prices. Travel grants to help student members (doctoral and earlier) to attend the Oxford Meeting in Booking for accommodation, the field excursion and abstract submission must be received by order to present a talk or poster Friday 9th September 2005. After this date abstracts will not be considered, and registration for The Palaeontological Association runs a programme of travel grants to assist student members the meeting will incur an extra administration cost of £15. The final deadline for registration and presenting talks or posters at the Annual Meeting. For the Oxford Meeting, grants of up to £100 (or for booking accommodation is Friday 25th November. The maximum number of participants for the Euro equivalents) will be available to student presenters who are travelling from outside the UK. the meeting is 300, and bookings will be taken on a strictly first come, first served basis. The amount payable is dependent on the number of applicants. Payment of these awards is given Registration details and online registration as a disbursement at the meeting, not as an advance payment. Students interested in applying for a Registration, abstract submission and payment (by credit card) are by online forms at Palass travel grant should contact the executive officer, Dr Tim Palmer, by email to <palass@palass. th <http://palass.org/>. org> once the organisers have confirmed that their presentation is accepted, and before 9 December 2005. Newsletter 5609 8 Newsletter 6059 9 Annual Address Fossil footprints were an area of fascination for Buckland, notably those from the New Red This year’s annual address of the Palaeontological Association will be given by Prof.
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