The latest issue of Evolution: Education and Outreach is now online. This is a special issue on transitional forms edited by Don Prothero, author of Evolution: What the Fossils Say and Why It Matters. The papers are available without charge. Remember to also check out the special issue on the evolution of eyes edited [...]
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Readers of this blog will soon notice some changes. This is because the Evolver Zone site has now been launched, and Genomicron will be fit within it. For now, it will remain a separate blog at this same location, but the look will be updated shortly. Meanwhile, have a look at the resource of [...] I feel very strongly that scientists should know the history of their discipline, as this is of substantial importance in guiding new research and preventing the same tired arguments from continually resurfacing (case in point, the myth that “junk DNA” was dismissed as totally nonfunctional or that epigenetics represents “neo-Lamarckism”). In this sense, the [...] My most recent paper in Evolution: Education and Outreach, which is part of a series on natural selection, is available in preprint form. Understanding natural selection: essential concepts and common misconceptionsT. Ryan Gregory Natural selection is one of the central mechanisms of evolutionary change and is the process responsible for the evolution of adaptive [...] From a comment by Linda Lin on my Nature Network blog: Nevertheless, there is a habit of teaching the way we ourselves were taught, even if this is not the most efficient approach. I went to a workshop for TAs and instructors addressing the issue of sort of flying blind in teaching. They emphasized [...] We often hear the stereotype that good researchers are not good teachers and vice versa. I think this is vastly overstated, and in actuality many people who seek to excel at research also are driven to be effective instructors. Nevertheless, there is a habit of teaching the way we ourselves were taught, even if [...] Those of you who have read Darwin will know that he had a strong interest in domestication and artificial selection. People have argued about how important this was in his development of the idea of natural selection, but there is no doubt that it was at least relevant in his explanation of the mechanism. [...] This year, Evolution: Education and Outreach will have a special (but not exclusive) focus on Darwin in celebration of the 200th anniversary of his birth and the 150th anniversary of the Origin of Species. The first issue in volume 2 is now available, once again free online. Evolution: Education and OutreachVolume 2, Issue 1 [...] |
T. Ryan Gregory 
I am an evolutionary biologist specializing in genome size evolution at the University of Guelph in Canada.
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