Editorial

Niles Eldredge and Greg Eldredge

How Systematics Became “Phylogenetic”

Niles Eldredge

Introduction to the Special Issue

Sagas of the Children of Time: The Importance of Phylogenetic Teaching in Biology

Daniel R. Brooks

Why Trees Are Important

Edward O. Wiley

How to Read a Phylogenetic Tree

Deborah A. McLennan

The Gummy Tree Challenge—Building Connections One Treat at a Time

Marcus Kumala

The Neverending Story—Using the Narrative as a Fundamental Approach to Teaching Biology and Beyond

Marcus Kumala

A Natural History of You

Marcus Kumala

Characters Are Key: The Effect of Synapomorphies on Cladogram Comprehension

Laura R. Novick, Kefyn M. Catley and Daniel J. Funk

Sociobiology and the Comparative Approach: One Way to Study Ourselves

Deborah Ann McLennan

The Biodiversity Crisis: Lessons from Phylogenetic Sagas

Daniel R. Brooks and Deborah A. McLennan

Evolutionary Trees from the Tabloids and BeyondAnastasia Thanukos

Why Are There Still Monkeys?

William Eric Meikle and Eugenie C. Scott

Brocchi, Darwin, and Transmutation: Phylogenetics and Paleontology at the Dawn of Evolutionary Biology

Stefano Dominici and Niles Eldredge

Brocchi’s Subapennine Fossil Conchology

Stefano Dominici

College Students’ Perceptions of Intelligent Design

Craig Tollini and Jess White

“Force-Talk” in Evolutionary Explanation: Metaphors and Misconceptions

Ross H. Nehm, Meghan A. Rector and Minsu Ha

Creationism and the Teaching of Evolution in PolandBartosz Borczyk

Teaching Tree-Thinking to Undergraduate Biology Students

Richard P. Meisel

Do Americans Believe Modern Earth Science?

Allan Mazur

Considering Adaptation and the “Function” of Traits in the Classroom, Using Wiki Tools

Sean A. Rands

Scientific Authority in the Creation–Evolution Debates

Finn R. Pond and Jean L. Pond

Should the Teaching of Biological Evolution Include the Origin of Life?

Antonio Lazcano and Juli Peretó

Exploring Phylogeny at the Tree of Life Web Project

Adam M. Goldstein

Book Review

A Specialized Reference and Then Some: Chronology of the Evolution-Creationism Controversy
Chronology of the Evolution-Creationism Controversy, by Randy Moore, Mark Decker, and Sehoya Cotner. Santa Barbara, CA: Greenwood Press, 2010. pp. xx+455. H/b $85.00.

Lawrence S. Lerner

Book Review

God Versus the Human Genome
Inside the Human Genome: A Case for Non-Intelligent Design, by John C. Avise. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010. Pp. xi + 222. H/b $19.95.

Adam M. Goldstein

Other Media Reviews

Paleontology and Evolution in the News

Sidney Horenstein