"I'm Gene McCarthy, the Director of Macroevolution.net. I'm a geneticist and my wife, Rebecca, and I live in Athens, Georgia with our two little girls, Clara and Margaret. Rebecca is the the editor-in-chief of the local online newspaper Athens & Oconee Patch. I spent a lot of my life in the Department of Genetics at the University of Georgia, here in Athens. I hold a masters and a PhD in genetics, and an undergraduate degree in mathematics, all from the University of Georgia. During my years at the department, I studied molecular evolution, taught biology and genetics, and did genetic research. I have also spent years collecting information about fossils.
"In addition, I've made an ongoing study of hybridization, and a special study of hybridization in birds. My magnum opus, Handbook of Avian Hybrids of the World (Oxford University Press, 2006), a reference book for both birders and professional biologists, provides information on about 4,000 distinct types of hybrid crosses among birds and cites more than 5,000 publications. Currently, I'm writing a similar book on hybridization among mammals, a version of which I'm making available on the website. I'm also working on a second edition of Handbook of Avian Hybrids.
"During my years at the genetics department, I became increasingly dissatisfied with the standard explanation of evolution. The more I read about fossils, the more convinced I became that Darwin's account of the evolutionary process was fundamentally flawed. Moreover, in my study of hybrids I became aware that an alternative way of thinking about evolution, what I now call "stabilization theory," could do a better job of explaining the available data... blah blah blah...