Robert Asher

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This is the youtube channel for Robert J. Asher, an evolutionary biologist based in the Department of Zoology and at Trinity Hall, University of Cambridge.

Latest Videos

Skulls, latitude, and race historical attempts to understand human cranial variation

How Christian is Decolonisation

From Kin-based to Impersonal Institutions The Church's Role in Europe's Developmental Divergence

How reliable are fossilizable data in phylogenyreconstruction

Group Selection and the Legacy of Ronald Aylmer Fisher

Animation of Congosorex phillipsorum CT scan

The hyoid apparatus and chrysochlorid evolution presentation at the 2024 meetings of the SVPCA

CT volume animations #2, adding labels and exporting to movie format using Drishti and ImageJ

Making animations of CT scans with Drishti

How to extract elements of plain text files with R, with examples from the phylogeny program TNT

Mind-altering parasites and the case against domestic cats

Tips for CT virtual dissection & other aspects of Drishti hires mode

Thrinaxodon skull

Canis ear and jaw

Canis jaw and braincase

Molar occlusion in the domestic dog

Zalambdodonty in Potamogale and Limnogale

Platypus jaw

Meckel's cartilage in Elephantulus

Meckel's groove in a modern dog and a Mesozoic fossil

Platypus skull

Some skeletal differences between monotremes and placental mammals

Calcaneal anatomy in australidelphian vs. most American marsupials

Anatomical xenarthry

Some cranial differences in catarrhine vs. platyrrhine primates

Skull morphology in the pangolin vs. giant anteater

Skull and dental formula of the opossum

Jaw closing muscles in Aplodontia compared to guinea pig

Jaw closing muscles in a squirrel compared to a muroid

Anatomy of the astragalus (= talus) in placental mammals