Lee, M.S.Y. 2012. Dinosaurs of a feather: meet T-Rex’s fluffy cousin

http://theconversation.edu.au/dinosaurs-of-a-feather-meet-t-rexs-fluffy-cousin-6279

Popular Commentary on Nature paper by Xing Xu et al. 2012

Hutchinson M.N., Skinner A., Lee M.S.Y. 2012. Tikiguania and the antiquity of squamate reptiles (lizards and snakes). Biology Letters [advance online. doi: 10.1098/rsbl.2011.1216]

For some media coverage see here:
http://www.cosmosmagazine.com/node/5216
http://www.reptiles.swelluk.com/blog/42/triassic-parks-bearded-dragon

Lee, M. S. Y. 2012. Is it a bird or a dinosaur? Australasian Science 33 (1): 16-17 [& cover]

Article on Archaeopteryx for popular audience

Paterson JR, Garcia-Bellido DC, Lee MSY, Brock GA, Jago JB, Edgecombe GD. 2011. Acute vision in the giant Cambrian predator Anomalocaris and the origin of compound eyes. Nature 480: 237-240 [Cover Story]

For a video summary see here...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a1fNidLedEA

For coverage by the New York Times, National Geographic etc see here...
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/13/science/anomalocaris-fossil-reveals-eyes-with-16000-lenses.html
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2011/11/111212-shrimp-vision-eyes-predator-ancient-animals-science-oceans/
http://news.sciencemag.org/sciencenow/2011/12/scienceshot-hide-and-seek-in-the.html
http://www.nature.com/news/an-eye-opening-fossil-1.9586
http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2011/dec/07/predator-compound-eyes-stalks-cambrian?newsfeed=true
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn21251-first-top-predator-was-giant-shrimp-with-amazing-eyes.html
http://www.cosmosmagazine.com/news/5067/ancient-killer-had-excellent-vision
http://www.abc.net.au/science/articles/2011/12/08/3385661.htm
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/notrocketscience/2011/12/07/anomalocaris-sharp-eyes-predator/
http://www.adelaidenow.com.au/news/south-australia/ancient-fossilised-eyes-found-on-kangaroo-island/story-e6frea83-1226216822949
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ukpress/article/ALeqM5iL6eLQuVAMLpnIT1-WUJuV7NPouw?docId=N0312111323262686001A
http://www.examiner.com/paelenotology-science-news-in-national/my-what-big-eyes-you-have-the-better-to-eat-you-with-my-dear
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/45587188/ns/technology_and_science-science/#.TuL9HUqrYrU
http://www.csmonitor.com/Science/2011/1208/Ancient-predator-had-eyes-with-16-000-lenses
http://news.discovery.com/animals/superpredator-eyes-111207.html
http://www.canberratimes.com.au/news/lifestyle/technology/science/the-eyes-have-it-worlds-oldest-predator-found/2385621.aspx
http://theconversation.edu.au/ancient-super-predator-had-excellent-vision-4650
http://www.metro.co.uk/news/world/884230-eyes-of-earths-first-super-predator-found-in-australia
http://www.sciencecodex.com/read/worlds_first_super_predator_had_remarkable_vision-82733

Lee, M.S.Y., Paterson, J. 2011. Rapid Evolution? The eyes have it. Australasian Science 32 (10): 28-30.

Article for General Audience

Lee, M.S.Y., Worthy, T.H. 2011. Likelihood reinstates Archaeopteryx as a bird. Biology Letters (advance online)

For coverage in Nature see here...
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v479/n7371/full/479008a.html

For coverage by popular media see here...
http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2011/oct/26/archaeopteryx-bird-family-tree
http://www.abc.net.au/science/articles/2011/10/26/3347625.htm
http://www.cosmosmagazine.com/news/4903/archaeopteryx-regains-status-primitive-bird
http://www.sciencealert.com.au/news/20112610-22764.html
http://www.science.unsw.edu.au/news/archaeopteryx-was-first-bird-after-all/

Lee, M.S.Y. Jago, J.B., García-Bellido, D.C., Edgecombe, G.D., Gehling, J.G., Paterson, J.R. 2011. Modern optics in exceptionally preserved eyes of Early Cambrian arthropods from Australia. Nature 474: 631-634

For the movie version, see here!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WQE3x8zp3jc

For coverage by National Geographic and other media see here:
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2011/07/pictures/110711-fossil-eyes-advanced-shrimp-predator-science-lenses/
http://www.cosmosmagazine.com/news/4460/scientists-see-rapid-evolution-ancient-eyes
http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2011/06/complex_eyes_in_the_cambrian.php
http://www.australiangeographic.com.au/journal/complex-vision-evolved-earlier-than-thought.htm
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/national-affairs/kangaroo-island-discovery-opens-eyes-to-cambrian-life/story-fn59niix-1226084469988
http://www.adelaidenow.com.au/ipad/cambrian-eye-fossil-find-revealed-in-science-journal-nature/story-fn6bqphm-1226084493013

Lee, M.S.Y. 2011. Macroevolutionary consequences of "spatial sorting". PNAS 108: E347

The point made in this paper (short-term nature of spatial sorting) is mentioned in this popular article...

http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21028102.200-unnatural-selection-introducing-invaders.html

Scanlon, J. D. and Lee, M.S.Y. 2011. The major clades of snakes: Morphological Evolution, Molecular Phylogeny, and Divergence Dates.

Chapter 3 In Reproductive Biology and Phylogeny of Snakes (R. D. Aldridge and D. M. Sever, Eds). CRC Press/Taylor and Francis.

Lee, M.S.Y., Skinner, A. 2011. Testing fossil calibrations for vertebrate molecular trees. Zoologica Scripta 40:538-543.

Phillips, M.J., Lee, M.S.Y. 2010. How recently did modern monotremes diversify? Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences PNAS 107(4): E13

Sanders, K.L., Lee, M.S.Y. 2010. Arthropod molecular divergence times and the Cambrian origin of pentastomids. Systematics and Biodiversity 8:1, 63 - 74

Skinner, A., Lee, M.S.Y. 2010. Plausibility of inferred ancestral phenotypes and the evaluation of alternative models of limb evolution in scincid lizards. Biology Letters 6: 354-358.

Oliver, P.M., Lee, M.S.Y. 2010. The botanical and zoological codes impede biodiversity research by discouraging publication of unnamed new species. Taxon 59: 1201-1205.

Sanders, K.L., Mumpuni, Lee, M.S.Y. 2010. Uncoupling ecological innovation and speciation in sea snakes (Elapidae, Hydrophiinae, Hydrophiini) . Journal of Evolutionary Biology 23: 2685-2693.

Lee, M.S.Y., Oliver, P. Hutchinson, M.N. 2009. Phylogenetic uncertainty and molecular clock calibrations: A case study of legless lizards (Pygopodidae, Gekkota) Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 50: 661-666.

Skinner, A., Lee, M.S.Y. 2009. Body form evolution in the scincid lizard clade Lerista and the mode of macroevolutionary transitions. Evolutionary Biology 36: 292-300

Lee, M.S.Y., Camens, A. B. 2009. Strong and surprising morphological support for the molecular evolutionary tree of mammals. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 22: 2243-2257

Garcia-Bellido, D., Paterson, J. R., Edgecombe, G.D., Jago, J., Gehling, J.G., Lee, M.S.Y. 2009. Bivalved arthropods Tuzoia and Isoxys with soft part tissue preservation from the Cambrian Emu Bay shale (Kangaroo Island, Australia). Palaeontology 52: 1221-1241

For coverage of the general excavation see here:
http://www.abc.net.au/rn/scienceshow/stories/2010/2949557.htm
http://scienceblogs.com/evolvingthoughts/2008/08/precambrian_fossils_at_kangaro.php
http://www.abc.net.au/btn/story/s2364705.htm
http://www.cosmosmagazine.com/node/4106/full
http://www.abc.net.au/catalyst/stories/2347748.htm

Lee, M.S.Y., 2009. Hidden support from unpromising datasets strongly unites snakes and anguimorph lizards. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 22: 1308-1316.

Phillips, M.J., Bennett, T., and Lee, M.S.Y. 2009. Molecules and morphology suggest a recent, amphibious ancestry for echidnas. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 106: 17089-17094

For some press coverage, see here:

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=extreme-monotremes
http://sue-cartledge.suite101.com/echidna-and-platypus-may-have-common-ancestor-a156437

Lee, M.S.Y., Hutchinson M.N., Trevor H. Worthy , T.H., Michael Archer M. Tennyson A.J.D. , Worthy J.P., Scofield R.P. 2009. Miocene skinks (Lygosominae) and geckos (Diplodactylidae) reveal long-term conservatism of New Zealand's lizard fauna. Biology Letters 6: 833-837

Featured on the Cover (Thanks to Rod Morris for the nice image)
http://rsbl.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/5/6.cover-expansion

For general coverage of the excavation see here...
http://www.nzgeographic.co.nz/issue-107/st-bathans
http://www.radionz.co.nz/national/programmes/ourchangingworld/audio/1905804/st-bathans-fossil-site

Skinner, A., Lee, M.S.Y. 2009. Body form evolution in the scincid lizard clade Lerista and the mode of macroevolutionary transitions. Evolutionary Biology 36: 292-300 (doi:10.1007/s11692-009-9064-9)

Oliver, P.M., Adams, M., Lee, M.S.Y, Hutchinson, M.N., Doughty, P., 2009. The taxonomic impediment in vertebrates: DNA sequence, allozyme and chromosomal data double estimates of species diversity in a lineage of Australian lizards (Diplodactylus, Gekkota). Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, B. 276: 2001-2007

For related coverage, see here!

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2009-03-04/genes-check-leads-to-gecko-discovery/1608474
http://www.australasianscience.com.au/article/issue-june-2011/cryptic-clues-species-diversity.html
http://www.adelaidenow.com.au/news/in-depth/lizard-species/story-fn34ojgi-1225799393040

Sanders, K.L., Lee M.S.Y., Leijs, R., Foster, R., Keogh, J.S. 2008. Molecular Phylogeny and Divergence Dates for Australasian Elapids and Sea Snakes (Hydrophiinae): Evidence from Seven Genes for Rapid Evolutionary Radiations. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 21: 682-695.

For some coverage see here...
http://www.cnah.org/slowinskiaward.asp
http://www.reptilesdownunder.com/arod/reptilia/Squamata/Elapidae/

Kear, B. P., Lee, M. S. Y., Gertz, W. R. & Flannery, T. F., 2008. The evolution of hind limb proportions in kangaroos (Marsupialia: Macropodoidea). In Mammalian Evolutionary Morphology: A Tribute to Frederick S. Szalay, (E. Sargis & M. Dagasto, eds.). Kluwer/Plenum Academic Publishers. Pages 25-35.

Worthy, T. Lee, M.S.Y. 2008. Affinities of Miocene waterfowl (Anatidae: Manuherikia, Dunstanetta and Miotadorna) from the St Bathans Fauna, New Zealand. Palaeontology 51: 677-708.

Lee, M.S.Y., Skinner, A. 2008. Hierarchy and clade definitions in phylogenetic taxonomy. Organisms, Diversity and Evolution 8: 17-20.

Paterson, J. R., Jago, J. B., Gehling, J. G., Garcia-Bellido, D. C., Edgecomb, G. D. and Lee, M.S.Y. 2008. Early Cambrian arthropods from the Emu Bay shale Lagerstatte, South Australia. I. Rabano, R. Gozalo and D. Garcia-Bellido (eds). Advances in Trilobite Research. Spanish Institude of Geology and Mineralogy, Madrid. pp319-326.

For coverage of the general excavation see here:
http://www.abc.net.au/rn/scienceshow/stories/2010/2949557.htm
http://scienceblogs.com/evolvingthoughts/2008/08/precambrian_fossils_at_kangaro.php
http://www.abc.net.au/btn/story/s2364705.htm
http://www.cosmosmagazine.com/node/4106/full
http://www.abc.net.au/catalyst/stories/2347748.htm

Skinner, A., Lee, M.S.Y. and Hutchinson, M. 2008. Rapid and repeated limb loss in lizards (Lerista). BMC Evolutionary Biology 8 (310 ): 1-23

For some media coverage see here!
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/11/081110223331.htm
http://www.hoxfulmonsters.com/2008/11/limb-loss-in-australian-lizards-provides-evidence-for-rapid-evolution/

Kupriyanova, E.K, Bastida-Zavala, R, Halt, M.N., Lee, M.S.Y. and Rouse, G.W. 2008. Phylogeny of the Serpula-Crucigera-Hydroides clade (Serpulidae, Annelida) using molecular and morphological data: implications for operculum evolution. Invertebrate Systematics 22: 425-437.

Lee, M.S.Y., Skinner, A. 2008. Hierarchy and clade definitions in phylogenetic taxonomy. Organisms, Diversity and Evolution 8: 17-20.

Sanders, K.L., Lee M.S.Y. 2008. Molecular evidence for a rapid late-Miocene radiation of Australasian venomous snakes (Elapidae, Colubroidea). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 46: 1165-1173.

Hugall, A. F., Foster, R., Hutchinson, M. Lee, M.S.Y. 2007. The evolution of Australasian agamid lizards based on nuclear and mitochondrial genes, and the affinities of the thorny devil (Moloch horridus). Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 93: 343-358..

Hugall, A. F, Foster, R., Lee, M.S.Y. 2007. Calibration Choice, Rate Smoothing, and the Pattern of Tetrapod Diversification According to the Long Nuclear Gene RAG-1. Systematic Biology 56: 543-563.

Hugall, A. and Lee, M.S.Y. 2007. The likelihood node density effect and consequences for evolutionary studies of molecular rates. Evolution 61: 2293-2307.

Lee, M.S.Y, Hugall, A. F., Lawson, R., Scanlon, J. D. 2007. Snake phylogeny based on multiple morphological and molecular data sets. Systematics and Biodiversity 5: 371-389.

Sanders, K.L., Lee M. S. Y. 2007. Evaluating molecular clock calibrations using Bayesian analyses with soft and hard bounds. Biology Letters 3: 275-279.

Lee, M.S.Y., Skinner, A. 2007. Stability, ranks and the Phylocode. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 52: 643-650.

Lee, M.S.Y. 2006. Morphological phylogenetics and the universe of possible characters. Taxon 55: 5-7.

Lee, M. S. Y. and Hugall, A. F. 2006. Model type, implicit data weighting, and model averaging in phylogenetics. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 38:848-857..

Lee, M.S.Y. and Anderson, J. A. 2006. Molecular clocks and the origin of living amphibians. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 40: 635-639.

Kear, B., Schroeder, N., Lee, M.S.Y. 2006. An archaic crested plesiosaur in opal from the Lower Cretaceous high latitude deposits of Australia. Biology Letters 2:615-619.

For some media coverage see here!
http://www.abc.net.au/science/articles/2006/07/27/1698381.htm
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2006/07/060711-dinosaur.html
http://www.savesurface.com/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=99&t=625&start=0&st=0&sk=t&sd=a&sid=93ade72e6f862e760cbd18395d60e4d9&view=print
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/13753060/ns/technology_and_science-science/t/sea-monster-dates-back-dinosaur-era/

Kear, B., Lee, M.S.Y. 2006. A primitive protostegid from Australia and early turtle evolution. Biology Letters 2: 116-119.

For media coverage see here...
http://www.abc.net.au/science/articles/2005/02/21/1303111.htm
http://www.adelaide.edu.au/adelaidean/issues/5501/news5548.html
http://www.ideacenter.org/contentmgr/showdetails.php/id/823

Lee, M. S. Y. 2005. Choosing stable reference taxa in phylogenetic nomenclature. Zoologica Scripta 34: 313-318.

Lee, M.S.Y. 2005. Squamate phylogeny revisited: taxon sampling, character analysis, and data congruence. Organisms, Diversity and Evolution 5: 25-45.

Wilson, N. G., Lee, M.S.Y. 2005. Molecular phylogeny of Chromodoris (Mollusca, Nudibranchia) and the identification of a planar spawning clade Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 36: 722-727.

Lee, M. S. Y. 2004. The molecularisation of taxonomy. Invertebrate Systematics 18:1-6.

Lee, M.S.Y. 2005. Molecular evidence and snake origins. Biology Letters 1: 227-230.

Lee, M.S.Y. 2004. Molecular and morphological data sets have similar numbers of relevant characters. Taxon 53: 1019-1022.

Caprette C.C., Lee M.S.Y., Shine R., Mokaney A., Downhower J.F. 2004. The origin of snakes as seen through eye anatomy. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society (London) 81: 469-482.

Scanlon, J.D. and Lee, M.S.Y.. 2004. The phylogeny of Australasian venomous snakes (Elapidae, Hydrophiidae) based on phenotypic and molecular evidence. Zoologica Scripta 33: 335-366.

Lee, M. S. Y., Doughty, P. 2003. The geometric meaning of macroevolution. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 18: 263-266

Lee, M.S.Y., Hugall, A.F. 2003. Partitioned likelihood support and the evaluation of data set conflict. Systematic Biology 52: 11-22.

Doughty, P., R. Shine and M. S. Y. Lee. 2003. Energetic costs of tail loss in a montane scincid lizard. Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology A 135: 215-219.

Lee, M. S. Y. 2003. Species concepts and species reality: Salvaging a Linnaean rank. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 16: 179-188.

Scanlon, J.D., Archer, M., Lee, M.S.Y. 2003. Mid-Tertiary elapid snakes from northern Australia: early steps in a continent-wide adaptive radiation. Geobios 36: 573-601.

Lee, M.S.Y., Wolsan, M. 2003 (for 2002). Cohesion, individuality, and the nature of species. Biology and Philosophy 17: 651-660.

Lee, M.S.Y. 2002. Divergent evolution, hierarchy and cladistics. Zoologica Scripta 31: 217-220.

Lee, M.S.Y. 2002. Species and phylogenetic nomenclature. Taxon 51:507-510.

Lee, M.S.Y. 2002. Online database could end taxonomic anarchy [Correspondence]. Nature 417: 787-788.

Scanlon, J.D. and Lee, M.S.Y. 2002. Varanoid-like dentition in primitive snakes (Madtsoiidae). Journal of Herpetology 36: 100-106.

Bromham, L., Woolfit, M., Lee, M.S.Y., Rambaut, A. 2002. Testing the relationship between morphological and molecular rates of change along phylogenies. Evolution 56: 1921-1930.

Lambkin, C.L., Lee, M.S.Y., Winterton, S., Yeates, D.K. 2002. Partitioned branch support and the problem of multiple trees. Cladistics 18: 436-444.

Lee, M.S.Y., Scanlon, J.D. 2002. The Cretaceous marine reptile Mesoleptos and the origin of snakes. Bulletin of the British Museum of Natural History, Zoology 68: 131-142.

Lee, M.S.Y., Scanlon, J.D. 2002. Snake phylogeny based on osteology, soft anatomy and behaviour. Biological Reviews 77: 333-401.

Lee, M.S.Y. 2001. Unalignable sequences and molecular evolution. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 16: 681-686

Lee, M.S.Y. 2001. On recent arguments for phylogenetic taxonomy. Taxon 50: 175-180.

Caldwell, M. W. and Lee, M. S. Y. 2001. Live-bearing in Cretaceous marine lizards (Mosasauroidea). Proceedings of the Royal Society of London: Biological Sciences 268: 2397-2401.

For press coverage see here...
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1134/is_4_111/ai_85281566/
http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2011/08/polycotylus-the-good-mother-plesiosaur/

Lee, M.S.Y. 2001. Snake origins and the need for scientific agreement on vernacular names. Paleobiology 27: 1-6.

Scanlon, J.D. and Lee, M.S.Y. 2001. Snakes from the serpent dreamtime. Nature Australia 27(3):36-45.

Lee, M.S.Y. 2001. Uninformative characters and apparent conflict between molecules and morphology. Molecular Biology and Evolution 18: 676-680.

Lee, M.S.Y. and Scanlon, J.D. 2001. On the lower jaw and intramandibular septum of snakes and anguimorph lizards. Copeia 2001: 531-535.

Lee, M.S.Y. 2001. Molecules, morphology and the monophyly of diapsid reptiles. Contributions to Zoology 70: 1-22.

Lee, M.S.Y. 2001. Scutosaurus karpinskii (Amalitskii, 1922): proposed conservation of generic and specific names. Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature 58: 220-223

Underwood, G. and Lee, M.S.Y. 2001. The egg teeth of gekkotan and dibamid lizards. Amphibia-Reptilia 21: 507-511.

Lee, M.S.Y. 2000. Soft anatomy, diffuse homoplasy, and the affinities of lizards and snakes. Zoologica Scripta 29: 101-130.

Lee, M.S.Y., Scanlon, J.D., Caldwell, M. W., Greene, H.W., Cundall, D. 2000. Snake origins. Science 288: 1343-1345.

Lee, M.S.Y. 2000. A worrying systematic decline. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 15:346.

Lee, M.S.Y. 2000. Tree robustness and clade significance. Systematic Biology 49: 829-836.

Scanlon, J. D. and Lee, M.S.Y. 2000. The Pleistocene serpent Wonambi and the early evolution of snakes. Nature 403: 416-420.

Featured on the cover

Spencer, P.S. and Lee, M.S.Y. 2000. A juvenile Elginia and early growth in pareiasaurs. Journal of Paleontology 74; 1191-1195

Lee, M.S.Y. and Caldwell, M.W. 2000. Adriosaurus and the affinities of mosasaurs, dolichosaurs and snakes. Journal of Palaeontology 74: 915-937.

Lee, M.S.Y. 2000. Waiting for post-postmodernism. (Reviews of Mystery of Mysteries: Is Evolution a Social Construction by M. Ruse and The Darwin Wars: How Selfish Genes Became Stupid Gods by A. Brown). Journal of Evolutionary Biology 13: 348-351.

Lee, M.S.Y. 1999. Molecular phylogenies become functional. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 14: 177-178.

Lee, M.S.Y. 1999. Reference taxa and phylogenetic nomenclature. Taxon 48: 31-34.

Cantino, P.D., Bryant, H., deQueiroz, K., Donoghue, M., Eriksson, T., Hillis, D., Lee, M.S.Y. 1999. Species names in phylogenetic nomenclature. Systematic Biology 48: 790-807.

Lee, M.S.Y., Bell, G.L. Jr, and Caldwell, M.W. 1999. The origin of snake feeding. Nature 400: 655-659.

Lee, M.S.Y., Caldwell, M.W., and Scanlon, J.D. 1999. A second primitive marine snake: Pachyophis nopcsai from the Cretaceous of Bosnia-Herzegovina. Journal of Zoology 248: 509-520.

Lee, M.S.Y. 1999. Molecular clock calibrations and metazoan divergence dates. Journal of Molecular Evolution 49: 385-391.

Lee, M.S.Y. 1999. Circularity, evolution, systematics ... and circularity. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 12: 724-734.

Shine, R. and Lee, M.S.Y. 1999. A reanalysis of the evolution of viviparity in squamate reptiles. Herpetologica 55: 538-549.

Lee, M.S.Y. 1999. Measuring support for phylogenies: the proportional support index. Cladistics 15: 173-176

Lee, M.S.Y. 1999. New developments in ontogeny and phylogeny. (Review of Shapes of Time: The Evolution of Growth and Development by K. J. MacNamara). Journal of Evolutionary Biology 12:199-200.

Lee, M.S.Y., Cooper, A., and Fortey, R. 1998. Shortening the phylogenetic fuse [comment and reply]. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 13: 323-324.

Lee, M.S.Y. 1998. Ancestors and taxonomy. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 13: 26.

Lee, M.S.Y. 1998. Phylogenetic uncertainty, molecular sequences, and the definition of taxon names. Systematic Biology 47: 719-726.

Lee, M.S.Y. 1998. Similarly, parsimony, and conjectures of homology. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 11: 379-387.

Lee, M.S.Y. and Caldwell, M.W. 1998. Anatomy and relationships of Pachyrhachis, a primitive snake with hindlimbs. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London: Biological Sciences 353: 1521-1552.

Lee, M.S.Y. 1998. Convergent evolution and character correlation in burrowing reptiles: towards a resolution of squamate phylogeny. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 65: 369-453.

Lee, M.S.Y. and Shine, R. 1998. Reptilian viviparity and Dollo's law. Evolution 52: 1441-1450.

Lee, M.S.Y. 1998. From fins to limbs and back again (Review of At the Water's Edge: Macroevolution and the Transformation of Life by Carl Zimmer) Nature 395: 558-559

Lee, M.S.Y. 1997. The phylogeny of varanoid lizards and the affinities of snakes. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London: Biological Sciences 352: 53-91.

Lee, M.S.Y. 1997. Pareiasaur phylogeny and the origin of turtles. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 120: 197-280.

Lee, M.S.Y. 1997. Documenting present and past biodiversity: conservation biology meets palaeontology. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 12: 132-133.

Lee, M.S.Y., Gow, C., and Kitching, J.W. 1997. Anatomy and relationships of Pareiasuchus nasicornis (Pareiasauridae: Amniota), a large Permian reptile from Zambia. Palaeontology 40: 307-335.

Lee, M.S.Y. 1997. Reptile phylogeny turns turtle. Nature 389: 214-215.

Lee, M.S.Y. 1997. Molecules, morphology, and amniote phylogeny. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 7: 394-395.

Lee, M.S.Y. 1997. The evolution of the reptilian hind foot and the homologies of the hooked fifth metatarsal. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 10: 253-263.

Lee, M.S.Y. 1997. The evolution of beaks in reptiles: a proposed evolutionary constraint. Evolutionary Theory 11: 249-256.

Lee, M.S.Y. 1997. Snake-like tooth replacement in mosasaurian lizards. Journal of Natural sHistory 31: 303-314.

Lee, M.S.Y. and Doughty, P. 1997. The relationship between evolutionary theory and phylogenetic analysis. Biological Reviews 72: 471-495.

Lee, M.S.Y. 1996. The phylogenetic approach to biological taxonomy: practical aspects. Zoologica Scripta 25: 187-190.

Lee, M.S.Y. 1996. On the emergent properties of species and ecosystems. Journal of Natural History 30: 629-631.

Lee, M.S.Y. 1996. The homologies and early evolution of the shoulder girdle in turtles. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London: Biological Sciences 263: 111-117.

Lee, M.S.Y. 1996. Correlated progression and the origin of turtles. Nature 379: 812-815.

Lee, M.S.Y. 1995. Historical burden in systematics and the interrelationships of "parareptiles". Biological Reviews 70: 459-547.

Lee, M.S.Y. 1995. Species concepts and the recognition of ancestors. Historical Biology 10: 329-339.

Lee, M.S.Y. 1994. The turtles' long lost relatives. Natural History 103(6): 63-65.

Jamieson, B. G. M., Lee, M. S. Y., and Long, K. 1993. Ultrastructure of the spermatozoon of the internally fertilizing frog Ascaphus truei (Ascaphidae: Anura: Amphibia) with phylogenetic considerations. Herpetologica 49: 52-65.

Lee, M. S. Y. 1993. The origin of the turtle body plan: bridging a famous morphological gap. Science 261: 1716-1720.

Lee, M. S. Y., and Jamieson, B. G. M. 1993. The ultrastructure of the spermatozoa of bufonid and hylid frogs (Anura, Amphibia): implications for phylogeny and fertilization biology. Zoologica Scripta 22: 309-323.

Foote M, Gould SJ, Lee MSY. 1992. Cambrian and Recent morphological disparity. Science 258: 1816-1818

An undergrad essay which I naively sent to Science - who published it alongside a similar piece by Steve Gould.