Dr. McIntosh is Reader in Combustion Theory, Department of Fuel and Energy, University of Leeds in the United Kingdom. He holds a B.S. with first class honors in applied mathematics from the University of Wales, a Ph.D. in the theory of combustion from the Cranfield Institute of Technology, and a D.Sc. in mathematics from the University of Wales. He has contributed chapters to 10 textbooks dealing with combustion theory and published over 80 research papers
Well he certainly seems the chap to go to to find out about the evolution of birds.
What part of D.Sc. in mathematics and B.S. in applied mathematics did you not understand?
Considering evolution is nothing if not a grand study in the mathematics of probability, I think he's eminently qualified to comment on the mathematical probabilities involved in various evolutionary just-so stories biologists bandy about.
I wonder if he believes in phlogiston.