Eric G. Ekdale, Ph.D.
NEWS & UPDATES
February 27, 2023 – New Book Chapter! Park, T., E. G. Ekdale, R. A. Racicot, and F. G. Marx. 2023. Testing for convergent evolution in baleen whale cochlea. In V. Bells and A. P. Russell (Eds.) Convergent Evolution. New York: Springer.
July 28, 2022 РNew Publication! Gatesy, J., E. G. Ekdale, T. A. Dem̩r̩, A. Lanzetti, J. Randall, A. Berta, J. J. El Adli, M. Springer, and M. R. McGowen. 2022. Anatomical, ontogenetic, and genomic homologies constrain reconstructions of the teeth-to-baleen transition in mysticete whales. Journal of Mammalian Evolution.
January 19, 2022 – New Course! Beginning Spring Semester 2022, I will be teaching a new course in the Biology Department at San Diego State University entitled "Evolution and Ecology of Marine Mammals". The course will be an upper division organismal biology course for majors and will complement the suite of organismal biology classes that SDSU offers.
May 24, 2021 – New Publication! Ekdale, E. G. and T. A. Deméré. 2021. Neurovascular evidence for a co-occurrence of teeth and baleen in an Oligocene mysticete and the transition to filter feeding in baleen whales. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society.
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January 20, 2021 – New Course! Beginning Spring Semester 2021, I will be teaching a new course in the Biology Department at San Diego State University entitled "The World of Dinosaurs". The course will be a general education course for non-science majors, and it will be the first offering of a course on dinosaurs in several decades. I'm excited to continue the tradition of paleontology education at SDSU!
September 16, 2020 – New Publication! Arnaudo, M. E., M. Arnal, and E. G. Ekdale. 2020. The auditory region of a caviomorph rodent (Hystricognathi) from the early Miocene of Patagonia (South America) and evolutionary considerations. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology
October 1, 2016 – New Publication! Ekdale (2016) Morphological Variation Among the Inner Ears of Extinct and Extant Baleen Whales (Cetacea: Mysticeti). Journal of Morphology.
April 25, 2015 – New Publication! Ekdale (2015) Form and function of the mammalian inner ear. Journal of Anatomy.
March 23, 2015 – New Publications! Anatomical Investigations of the California Gray Whale. Special Issue: Thematic Papers of the Anatomical Record.
