Jacob (Jake) Berv is an evolutionary biologist interested in building and deciphering the tree of life. His research integrates data from natural history, ecology, genomics, and paleontology—often through the application of novel computational tools—in order to understand the links between micro- and macroevolution.
He is the lead developer of bifrost and a contributor to janus; explore featured tools on the Software page.
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bifrost R Package Released on CRAN
Invited Keynote at the GSA Pardee Symposium
Genome and life-history evolution link bird diversification to the end-Cretaceous mass extinction
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The banner shows a portion of Salvador Dalí’s Persistence of Memory. Art historian Dawn Adès described the melting clocks as “an unconscious symbol of the relativity of space and time.” In evolutionary biology, time is also relative — and, outside paleontology, rarely absolute. Dalí’s pruned olive tree, overtaken by time, echoes the challenge of reconstructing the tree of life. In the upper left is a nod to Charles Darwin’s note, “I think,” from his famous sketch of a phylogenetic tree.