Wayne Paul Maddison is a professor and Canada Research Chair at the departments of zoology and botany at the University of British Columbia

University of British Columbia

The University of British Columbia is a public research university. UBC’s two main campuses are situated in Vancouver and in Kelowna in the Okanagan Valley...

, and a Scientific Co-Director of the Beaty Biodiversity Museum

Beaty Biodiversity Museum

The Beaty Biodiversity Museum is a natural history museum in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Its collections include over two million specimens, including a 25-metre skeleton of a female blue whale buried in Tignish, Prince Edward Island.-Location:...

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His research concerns the phylogeny, biodiversity, and evolution of jumping spider

Jumping spider

The jumping spider family contains more than 500 described genera and about 5,000 described species, making it the largest family of spiders with about 13% of all species. Jumping spiders have some of the best vision among invertebrates and use it in courtship, hunting and navigation...

s (Salticidae), of which he has discovered new species and genera.

He has also done research in phylogenetic theory and, in collaboration with David Maddison, worked on the Mesquite open-source phylogeny software, the MacClade program, and the Tree of Life Web Project

Tree of Life Web Project

The Tree of Life Web Project is an ongoing Internet project providing information about the diversity and phylogeny of life on Earth. This collaborative peer reviewed project began in 1995, and is written by biologists from around the world....

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External links

• Wayne Maddison Lab