The first clip is a series of responses to the question “Should evolution be taught in school?” by the 2011 Miss USA contestants. If you can’t get through the whole thing (I couldn’t), don’t worry — you’ll get the gist of it quickly enough. The second clip is a spoof of the first. Enjoy! [...]
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Baba Brinkman, evo-rapper extraordinaire, is looking for support to finish an exciting project to create videos for his Rap Guide to Evolution. Most of the funding has come from the Wellcome Trust, but the last of the production costs are being assembled through Crowdfunder. Help if you can! Here’s the pitch: And an [...] Evolution: Education and Outreach Volume 3, Number 4 / December 2010 489-490 Editorial Niles Eldredge and Greg Eldredge 491-494 How Systematics Became “Phylogenetic” Niles Eldredge 495-498 Introduction to the Special Issue Sagas of the Children of Time: The Importance of Phylogenetic Teaching in Biology Daniel R. Brooks 499-505 Why Trees Are [...] I am very pleased to note that my former undergraduate thesis advisor and influential early mentor, Dr. Chris Wood, has been named a winner of the prestigious Nature award for mentorship. I wrote about my experience in the lab in a blog post last year here. Now that it’s all official, I don’t mind [...] [Note: This post was inspired by a comment on this earlier post] The title of this post is sure to upset lots of readers. Before you react, let me put the statement into context. “Professional”, in the sense I intend it, refers to having a “profession” — as in, a career. “Scientist”, in the [...] Rich Miesel has a nice paper soon to appear in Evolution: Education and Outreach which further explores ways to help students grasp tree-thinking in evolutionary biology. It’s the latest in a series of papers on this topic in E:EO and other journals and covers misconceptions that can’t be clarified too often. Miesel, R.P. Teaching [...] For the past year, I have been working with several colleagues to completely redesign our first year biology program at the University of Guelph. One of the aspects of the new “Discovering Biodiversity” course (which complements courses in human health and molecular and cellular biology) that I am most excited about is the use [...] The latest issue of Evolution: Education and Outreach is now available online. This is a special issue dedicated to Dr. Eugenie Scott of the National Center for Science Education on the occasion of her [redacted]th birthday! A few of the papers are free online, but others require a subscription. Some positive news announced in [...] Jonathan Eisen has pointed out some rather significant misinterpretation of evolutionary relationships in a recent New York Times article. Of course, misconceptions about evolutionary trees, the evolution of complex organs, the mechanism of natural selection, and even the nature of the terms “fact” and “theory” are rampant. I have tried to tackle these in [...] My latest online project: Hackademe! Hack: A clever use of technology, software, or modified items to solve a problem or increase efficiency. Academe: The community of scholars and students engaged in higher education and research; also known as academia or acadème. Hackademe: A website devoted to sharing clever uses of technology, software, or modified [...] |
T. Ryan Gregory 
I am an evolutionary biologist specializing in genome size evolution at the University of Guelph in Canada.
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