talk.origins as "Nic Tamzek". He has also written articles on such topics for the popular press. He is the author of the 2013 R package BioGeoBEARS, which enables statistical comparison of probabilistic models of how the geographic ranges of species evolve on phylogenies, such as models that include or exclude founder-event speciation, geographic distance, or dispersal-influencing traits. He also authored a 2015 paper in the journal Science conducting a dated, Bayesian phylogenetic analysis of antievolution legislation proposed or passed in the United States in the decade following Kitzmiller v. Dover. References Primary Secondary External links Living people Science bloggers Valparaiso University alumni University of California, Berkeley alumni Year of birth missing (living people)