History and Rationale
This website is born from a blog by Nussaibah R. Schoob and Adam T. Kocsis, which was put inplace in 2019 to help illustrate the use of some tools (R packages) that were developed at paleontology institute of the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg (FAU).
Over the past 5 years of working with the practical education of coding examples, a number of issues regarding changes of software implementations surfaced, including major version changes in platforms and frameworks.
After multiple iterations of implementation, the project is still in development, with a more explicit focus: to teach researchers about the possible implementation of quantitative methods and help with the integration of the global community. $Evolv-ED$ serves as a platform for sharing and publishing educational content for FAU’s International Master’s in Geosciences - Paleobiology and the Analytical Paleobiology School.
Philosophy
The purpose of Evolv-ED is to be an unbiased platform where the use of all data and software items can be demonstrated to showcase the general necessity of quantitative approaches. Evolv-ED is firmly devoted to the idea of promoting reproducibility in the analysis of evolutionary data, which includes the proper archival of material to ensure their future accessibility and historic utility.