Owls Count

When writing about the Wokingham Half Marathon I mentioned that I had arrived back in the UK, from Santa Fe, shortly before the race, but I failed to mention why I had been away.

At the beginning of February I started a new job, in the Evolutionary Biology Group, which is in the School of Biological Sciences at the University of Reading. The project I am researching is concerned with the evolution of phoneme use across sets of related languages. This research is in conjunction with researchers at the Santa Fe Institute and to learn more about the project I spent two weeks visiting them.

It was a good trip and I also had opportunity to spend time exploring the local area. While there I did some running – all of which was either up or down hill and at an altitude of over 2000m.