Folmer Bokma

Folmer Bokma is a Senior Lecturer in Zoology at Karlstad University, Sweden. His research focuses on resolving the 'paradox of stasis' in long-term biological evolution, contrasting rapid short-term adaptation with slow geological-scale changes. He also investigates extinction dynamics, metabolic allometry, and the application of DNA in lake sediments for ecological reconstructions.

Education: MSc and PhD in Animal Ecology from the University of Oulu, Finland (2004). Docent in Evolutionary Biology at Umeå University (2011). Teaching roles include Zoology, Biological Methods and Analyses, and Evolution courses at Karlstad University.

Research highlights include pioneering work on avian extinction rates (showing rates 5× higher than previous estimates), and challenging assumptions about universal metabolic scaling laws in animals. His studies often combine empirical data with statistical models to address macroecological and evolutionary questions.

Publications span topics from primate brain-body coevolution to speciation mechanisms in plants, and his work has been featured in BBC Wildlife, Der Spiegel, and Nature. He has held academic positions at multiple European universities, including Oulu, Groningen, Umeå, Oslo, and Karlstad.