Bio Note: Alexander Vargas is an evolutionary biologist whose main contributions are about the origin and early evolution of birds, especially regarding their developmental evolution. He also revived interest in the neo-Lamarckian experimentalist Paul Kammerer (1880-1926), after pointing out specific resemblances between his experiments and modern experiments in transgenerational epigenetic inheritance. Since 2008, Vargas has run the laboratory of Ontogeny and Phylogeny at the Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, University of Chile. Since 2013, he has directed the Red Paleontológica U. Chile (Paleontological Network of U. Chile), whose members have described several fossil vertebrates new to science

Affiliation: Universidad de Chile, Chile