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 [...]
I wasn’t going to discuss this because I’m not officially affiliated with the journal anymore, but I see it has been posted on the E:EO blog. Some good news about access to the journal. Still not satisfactory in my opinion, and doesn’t address the principle of how this all went down (which was my [...]
Medical Hypotheses takes a deliberately different approach to review: the editor sees his role as a ‘chooser’, not a ‘changer’, choosing to publish what are judged to be the best papers from those submitted. The Editor sometimes uses external referees to inform his opinion on a paper, but their role is [...]
The latest issue of Evolution: Education and Outreach is now online:
Article Editorial Mick Wycoff PDF (53.8 KB)HTML 579-580 Article How Can English Tell the Story? Douglas Reed Eldredge PDF (70.4 KB)HTML 581-583 Article Becoming Modern Homo sapiens Ian Tattersall PDF (109.3 KB)HTML 584-589 Article The Evolution of Morality Douglas Allchin PDF (202.8 [...]
To the list of special issues dealing with the evolution of eyes (E:EO, Phil Trans R Soc B), you can now add one on nervous systems in Nature Reviews Neuroscience. Nature Reviews Neuroscience
Vol. 10, Oct. 2009
Charles Darwin’s theory of descent with modification by means of natural selection has stood the test of [...]
Those of you who have been following this blog will know about the special issue of Evolution: Education and Outreach on the evolution of eyes that I edited last year (see below). There is now another excellent collection of papers on this subject in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, edited by eye [...]
Some time ago, I put together a list of websites for the journals I am most interested in. It occurred to me that this could be useful for others. (I am also planning to post some information on how to aggregate journal tables of contents, automatic index searches, and science news).
The most recent issue of Evolution: Education and Outreach (vol. 2, issue 3) is now available online. I decided to sit this one out after six consecutive contributions (links below), but I will be back in the next issue with a follow-up to my previous article on selection.