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 Important

  Edward O. Wiley

• 506-519

  How to Read a Phylogenetic Tree

  Deborah A. McLennan

• 520-525

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

  Marcus Kumala

• 526-531

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

  Marcus Kumala

• 532-538

  A Natural History of You

  Marcus Kumala

• 539-547

  Characters Are Key: The Effect of Synapomorphies on Cladogram Comprehension

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

• 548-557

  Sociobiology and the Comparative Approach: One Way to Study Ourselves

  Deborah Ann McLennan

• 558-562

  The Biodiversity Crisis: Lessons from Phylogenetic Sagas

  Daniel R. Brooks and Deborah A. McLennan

• 563-572

  Evolutionary Trees from the Tabloids and BeyondAnastasia Thanukos

• 573-575

  Why Are There Still Monkeys?

  William Eric Meikle and Eugenie C. Scott

• 576-584

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

  Stefano Dominici and Niles Eldredge

• 585-594

  Brocchi’s Subapennine Fossil Conchology

  Stefano Dominici

• 595-604

  College Students’ Perceptions of Intelligent Design

  Craig Tollini and Jess White

• 605-613

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

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

• 614-620

  Creationism and the Teaching of Evolution in PolandBartosz Borczyk

• 621-628

  Teaching Tree-Thinking to Undergraduate Biology Students

  Richard P. Meisel

• 629-632

  Do Americans Believe Modern Earth Science?

  Allan Mazur

• 633-640

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

  Sean A. Rands

• 641-660

  Scientific Authority in the Creation–Evolution Debates

  Finn R. Pond and Jean L. Pond

• 661-667

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

  Antonio Lazcano and Juli Peretó

• 668-674

  Exploring Phylogeny at the Tree of Life Web Project

  Adam M. Goldstein

• 675-676

  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

• 677-678

  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

• 679-686

  Other Media Reviews

  Paleontology and Evolution in the News

  Sidney Horenstein

A few of the papers are free online, but others require a subscription.  Some positive news announced in the editorial by Niles and Greg Eldredge, though:

We have great news! After a temporary hiatus, when Evolution: Education and Outreach became no longer completely free online at www.springer.com, we are poised to come back free online—the better to serve our educational outreach mission.

Thanks to the imagination, dedication, and hard work of Andrea Macaluso, Editorial Director, Springer Science + Business Media (and the founding genius behind this journal in the first place), we have made arrangements with the National Institutes of Health online library PubMed Central (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/) to provide our journal once again completely free online.

As we write, the backlog at PubMed Central will require another month or so for E:E&O to appear. Our arrangement with PubMed Central requires a one-year embargo—meaning that as soon as the backlog clears, our entire Volumes 1 and 2 will appear on their website. In March of 2011, all four issues of Volume 3 (2010) will be added, and so forth.

But there is more. We are currently offering John Thompson’s and Rodrigo Medel’s stellar issue on Co-evolution (Volume 3 #1) free online at the Springer site indefinitely. Editorial and educational articles will continue to be free online at the Springer site in perpetuity.

And, in addition, we have begun to post issues from the archives, starting with Volume 1 #1, for three-month intervals at our journal’s website at www.Springer.com/12052. And be sure to keep following us on MySpace and Facebook for more resources as well. Also, many of our articles are supported for free online access through the authors or their institutions.

Finally, most institutions of higher learning, as well as research centers in the natural sciences, provide subscriptions to E:E&O available to their immediate community. And a subscription to E:E&O, which includes four handsome printed issues, remains only $40.00. For subscriptions, consult our website or write to Andrea Macaluso (Andrea.Macaluso@Springer.com) directly.

Rest assured—E:E&O will continue to be available to all, and we are particularly happy that teachers of the primary and secondary grade levels will be able to continue to utilize our articles and educational resources as they prepare their lessons on the complete gamut of evolution-related topics.

This is a great step, and a testament to the dedication of the editors. Sadly, my special issue on eye evolution remains inaccessible online — however, it sounds like this will be rectified in time.  I definitely miss being part of the journal, but I have to stick with my decision to leave unless/until free access is reinstated.  It’s fantastic that my friends at the journal seem to have found a potential solution.

Editorial
Niles Eldredge and Gregory Eldredge

What’s a Nice Midwestern Girl Like You Doing in a Place Like This?
Andrew J. Petto

The Theory of Evolution is Not an Explanation for the Origin of Life
Justin W. Rice, Daniel A. Warner, Clint D. Kelly, Michael P. Clough and James T. Colbert

Three Wishes for Genie
Glenn Branch

The Evolution of Creationist Movements
Nicholas J. Matzke

Should Students Be Able to Opt Out of Evolution? Some Philosophical Considerations
Robert T. Pennock

It’s Déjà Vu All Over Again: The Intelligent Design Movement’s Recycling of Creationist Strategies
Barbara Forrest

Lessons from the Social Psychology of Evolution Warfare: Good Science Alone is not Enough
Raymond Arthur Eve, Susan Carol Losh and Brandon Nzekwe

Cosmic Evolution
Lawrence M. Krauss

How Old is Earth, and How Do We Know?
Robert M. Hazen

How to Win the Evolution War: Teach Macroevolution!
Kevin Padian

From the Classroom to the Courtroom: Intelligent Design and the Constitution
Jay D. Wexler

Evolution—by the (Text) Book
Kenneth R. Miller

Apprehension and Pedagogy in Evolution Education
Brian Alters

Evolution and the Media
Carl Zimmer

Listening to Teachers
Eugenie C. Scott

Complete Bibliography of Eugenie C. Scott
Adam M. Goldstein and Glenn Branch

Communicating Evolution as Science
Anastasia Thanukos

Problem Concepts in Evolution Part II: Cause and Chance
Louise S. Mead and Eugenie C. Scott

Biosemantics: An Evolutionary Theory of Thought
Crystal L’Hôte

Darwinian Morality
Catherine Wilson

Geology as Theater: The Earth on Show: Fossils and the Poetics of Popular Science, 1802–1856, by Ralph O’Connor
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2007. Pp. xiii + 541. H/b $45.00.
Steven Newton

A Bulldog of Your Owen: The Philosophies Behind the Huxley–Owen Debate
Owen’s Ape and Darwin’s Bulldog: Beyond Darwinism and Creationism, by Christopher E. Cosans. Indiana University Press: Bloomington, 2009. Pp. xxvi + 166 P/b $21.95
David M. Lovelace

Richard Owen’s “Most Interesting Department of Natural History … Its Very Soul”
On the Nature of Limbs: A Discourse, by Richard Owen, edited by Ron Amundson, with a preface by Brian K. Hall, and introductory essays by Amundson, Kevin Padian, Mary P. Winsor, and Jennifer Coggon. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2007. Pp. cii + 119. S/b $20.00.
Adam M. Goldstein

Thirteen Essays on Evolution and Creationism in Modern Debates
Stephen C. Barton and David Wilkinson (eds): Reading Genesis after Darwin. New York: Oxford University Press, 2009. pp. xiv + 254. S/b $24.95
Kim Paffenroth

Not Just for Ornithologists
Speciation in Birds, by Trevor Price. Greenwood Village, CO: Roberts and Company, 2007. Pp. x + 470. S/b $59.95
Beatrice Kondo

Paleontology and Evolution in the News
Sidney Horenstein

We’ve submitted EE&O to PubMed Central, the U.S. National Institutes of Health’s free digital archive of biomedical and life sciences journals. What this means is that EE&O will be free to all, on the PMC site, after a 12 month embargo period (a 12 month “moving wall“). There is quite a long ‘waiting list’ at PMC. While the paperwork has all been submitted, we are looking at around a 6 month wait until all backfiles are up and visible.

While we would love to open up the content on SpringerLink, PMC will not allow us to have EE&0 opened in full on more than one repository.

You can also get a personal print subscription for $40, which isn’t bad at all.

I have officially resigned as Associate Editor and member of the editorial board of Evolution: Education and Outreach.

This was a painful decision, and not one that I took lightly, given how much I had invested in getting the journal going from the start. Not to go into detail, but the simple answer is that this was due to differences in opinion over content access policies. I will continue to contribute however I can to evolution education in other ways, and I wish the journal and my friends who have worked so hard on it all the best.

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 as an information source and the Editor’s choice is final. The papers chosen may contain radical ideas, but may be judged acceptable so long as they are coherent and clearly expressed. The authors’ responsibility for the integrity, precision and accuracy of their work is paramount.

I once (yes, once, when I was naive and assumed that a journal from a major publisher would be legit) reviewed a paper for them, and was just about to write an angry email to the editor asking something like “Is it your objective to publish utter speculation?” before I checked the website and saw that, indeed, that is their objective (see also this and this).

Anyway, I am pleased to note that this “journal” may soon be tanked.

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 KB)HTML	590-601
	Article The Argument from Design: A Guided Tour of William Paley’s Natural Theology (1802) T. Ryan Gregory PDF (175.7 KB)HTML	602-611
	Article How the Adaptation Got its Start Anastasia Thanukos PDF (134.9 KB)HTML	612-616
	Article Homology: Why We Know a Whale Is Not a Fish Andrew J. Petto and Louise S. Mead PDF (238.7 KB)HTML	617-621
	Article Why We Need to Teach the Evolution of Morality Douglas Allchin PDF (135.2 KB)HTML	622-628
	Article Teaching the Evolution of Morality: Status and Resources Douglas Allchin PDF (148.7 KB)HTML	629-635
	Article Texas Biology and Biological Anthropology Faculty Express Their Views on Teaching Evolution Shelley L. Smith and Raymond A. Eve PDF (158.1 KB)HTML

	Article Lessons from EEO: Toward a Universal Evolutionary Curriculum Niles Eldredge and Gregory Eldredge PDF (184.7 KB)HTML	643-654
	Article Acceptance of Evolution Increases with Student Academic Level: A Comparison Between a Secular and a Religious College Guillermo Paz-y-Miño C. and Avelina Espinosa PDF (557.6 KB)HTML	655-675
	Article Why “Sudden Appearance” Is Not as It Appears James E. Platt PDF (77.5 KB)HTML	676-678
	Article “Virtual Inquiry”: Teaching Molecular Aspects of Evolutionary Biology Through Computer-Based Inquiry Eva Erdosne Toth, Sarah K. Brem and Geza Erdos PDF (300.6 KB)HTML	679-687
	Article Darwin’s Philosophical Imperative and the Furor Theologicus U. Kutschera PDF (468.3 KB)HTML	688-694
	Article Paleontology and Evolution in the News Sidney Horenstein PDF (100.9 KB)HTML	695-699
	Article Print Reference Sources about Evolution Adam M. Goldstein PDF (201.4 KB)HTML	700-707
	Article Tracing the ELF: Joyful Excursions in Search of Evolution Emanuele Serrelli PDF (156.4 KB)HTML	708-717
	Article Fearfully and Wonderfully Made: An Evo-Devo Perspective on Human Anatomy Quirks of Human Anatomy: An Evo-Devo Look at the Human Body, by Louis I. Held, Jr. Cambridge University Press: New York, Pp. Xii + 260, P/b $34.99 Andrew J. Petto PDF (58.0 KB)HTML	718-719
	Article The Ever-Flowing Rush of Scientific Literature Evolution: The First Four Billion Years, Edited by Michael Ruse and Joseph Travis with a foreword by Edward O. Wilson. Cambridge, MA and London, UK: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2009. Pp. Xii + 979. H/b $39.95 Stephen W. Paddock PDF (58.0 KB)HTML

	Article Evolution and University-level Anthropology Textbooks: The “Missing Link”? Jess White, Craig D. Tollini, W. Aaron Collie, Meredith B. Strueber, Linda H. Strueber and Jonathan W. Ward PDF (202.5 KB)HTML	722-737
	Article Not “Just a Theory” Why Evolution Is True, by Jerry A. Coyne. New York: Viking, 2009. Pp. xx + 282. H/b $27.95 Paula Ann Spaeth PDF (59.8 KB)HTML	738-739
	Article Milner’s Encyclopedic Un-Encyclopedia Darwin’s Universe: Evolution from A to Z, by Richard Milner. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2009, Pp. 487, H/b $39.95. Adam M. Goldstein PDF (128.9 KB)HTML	740-741
	Article Using Avida-ED for Teaching and Learning About Evolution in Undergraduate Introductory Biology Courses Elena Bray Speth, Tammy M. Long, Robert T. Pennock and Diane Ebert-May PDF (35.3 KB)HTML

Journal of Effective Teaching

Volume 9, Issue 2, September 2009
Special Issue – Teaching Evolution in the Classroom

Full Issue – PDF

CONTENTS

Letter from the Editor-in-Chief:: Origins …………………………………………………………………………………………….. 1-3
Russell L. Herman …………………………………….. HTML, PDF

ARTICLES

The Influence of Religion and High School Biology Courses on Students’ Knowledge of Evolution

When They Enter College ……………………………………………………………………………………………………………. 4-12
Randy Moore, Sehoya Cotner, and Alex Bates ………………………. Abstract, HTML, PDF

Teaching Evolution in the Galápagos ……………………………………………………………………………………………. 13-28
Katherine E. Bruce, Jennifer E. Horan, Patricia H. Kelley, Mark Galizio ……………….. Abstract, HTML, PDF

A College Honors Seminar on Evolution and Intelligent Design: Successes and Challenges ……………………… 29-37
Patricia H. Kelley …………………………………………….. Abstract, HTML, PDF

Clearing the Highest Hurdle: Human-based Case Studies Broaden Students’ Knowledge
of Core Evolutionary Concepts …………………………………………………………………………………………………… 38-53
Alexander J. Werth ………………………………….. Abstract, HTML, PDF

Evolution in Action, a Case Study Based Advanced Biology Class at Spelman College ………………………….. 54-68
Aditi Pai ……………………………………………………. Abstract, HTML, PDF

Preparing Teachers to Prepare Students for Post-Secondary Science:
Observations From a Workshop About Evolution in the Classroom ………………………………………………….. 69-80
Caitlin M. Schrein, et al. …………………………… Abstract, HTML, PDF

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 time, with new discoveries in genetics and the mathematical basis of natural selection providing ever growing evidence for the theory. This focus issue of Nature Reviews Neuroscience — sponsored by the Wellcome Trust — celebrates the contribution of Darwin’s ideas to our current understanding of the evolution of the nervous system. The articles in this special issue discuss the molecular, cellular and structural changes that have contributed to CNS evolution and their functional consequences.

The origin and evolution of synapses

Tomás J. Ryan & Seth G. N. Grant

Nature Reviews Neuroscience 10, 701-712 (2009)

Tracing the phylogeny of the molecular components of synapses, Ryan and Grant speculate on the core components of the last common ancestor of all synapses and posit that the diversification of upstream signalling components contributed to increased signalling complexity later in evolution.

• Abstract
• Full Text
• PDF (1,249 KB)
• Supplementary information

Considering the evolution of regeneration in the central nervous system

Elly M. Tanaka & Patrizia Ferretti

Nature Reviews Neuroscience 10, 713-723 (2009)

What allows some species, but not others, to regenerate their nervous system? In this Review, the authors compare CNS regeneration among vertebrates looking for clues that might explain how this ability might have emerged or been restricted through evolution.

• Abstract
• Full Text
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Evolution of the neocortex: a perspective from developmental biology

Pasko Rakic

Nature Reviews Neuroscience 10, 724-735 (2009)

Focusing on mammalian species, Pasko Rakic uses evo–devo studies to model how gene mutations may have affected neuron number and neuronal migration, which in turn may have contributed to the species-specific expansion and elaboration of the cerebral cortex.

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Chordate roots of the vertebrate nervous system: expanding the molecular toolkit

Linda Z. Holland

Nature Reviews Neuroscience 10, 736-746 (2009)

By comparing developmental gene expression and neuroanatomy of vertebrates and the basal chordate amphioxus, Linda Holland sheds light on the molecular changes that may have facilitated the evolution of the vertebrate brain.

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HT: Evolving Thoughts

The evolution of phototransduction and eyes
edited by Trevor D. Lamb, Detlev Arendt, and Shaun P. Collin
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, vol. 364, issue 1531, Oct. 19, 2009

The evolution of phototransduction and eyes
Trevor D. Lamb, Detlev Arendt, and Shaun P. Collin

Evolution of phototaxis
Gáspár Jékely

The ‘division of labour’ model of eye evolution
Detlev Arendt, Harald Hausen, and Günter Purschke

Eye evolution: common use and independent recruitment of genetic components
Pavel Vopalensky and Zbynek Kozmik

The evolution of eyes and visually guided behaviour
Dan-Eric Nilsson

The evolution of irradiance detection: melanopsin and the non-visual opsins
Stuart N. Peirson, Stephanie Halford, and Russell G. Foster

Evolution of vertebrate rod and cone phototransduction genes
Dan Larhammar, Karin Nordström, and Tomas A. Larsson

Evolution of opsins and phototransduction
Yoshinori Shichida and Take Matsuyama

Evolution and the origin of the visual retinoid cycle in vertebrates
Takehiro G. Kusakabe, Noriko Takimoto, Minghao Jin, and Motoyuki Tsuda

Evolution of vertebrate retinal photoreception
Trevor D. Lamb

The evolution of early vertebrate photoreceptors
Shaun P. Collin, Wayne L. Davies, Nathan S. Hart, and David M. Hunt

Evolution and spectral tuning of visual pigments in birds and mammals
David M. Hunt, Livia S. Carvalho, Jill A. Cowing, and Wayne L. Davies

Evolution of colour vision in mammals
Gerald H. Jacobs

The evolution of eyes
edited by T. Ryan Gregory
Evolution: Education and Outreach, vol. 1, issue 4, Oct. 2008

Editorial

351. Editorial by Gregory Eldredge and Niles Eldredge (PDF)

352-354. Introduction by T. Ryan Gregory (PDF)

355-357. Casting an Eye on Complexity by Niles Eldredge (PDF)

Original science / evolution reviews

358-389. The Evolution of Complex Organs by T. Ryan Gregory (PDF)
(Blog: Genomicron)

390-402. Opening the “Black Box”: The Genetic and Biochemical Basis of Eye Evolution by Todd H. Oakley and M. Sabrina Pankey (PDF)
(Blog: Evolutionary Novelties)

403-414. A Genetic Perspective on Eye Evolution: Gene Sharing, Convergence and Parallelism by Joram Piatigorsky (PDF)

415-426. The Origin of the Vertebrate Eye by Trevor D. Lamb, Edward N. Pugh, Jr., and Shaun P. Collin (PDF)

427-438. Early Evolution of the Vertebrate Eye—Fossil Evidence by Gavin C. Young (PDF)

439-447. Charting Evolution’s Trajectory: Using Molluscan Eye Diversity to Understand Parallel and Convergent Evolution by Jeanne M. Serb and Douglas J. Eernisse (PDF)

448-462. Evolution of Insect Eyes: Tales of Ancient Heritage, Deconstruction, Reconstruction, Remodeling, and Recycling by Elke Buschbeck and Markus Friedrich (PDF)

463-475. Exceptional Variation on a Common Theme: The Evolution of Crustacean Compound Eyes by Thomas W. Cronin and Megan L. Porter (PDF)

476-486. The Causes and Consequences of Color Vision by Ellen J. Gerl and Molly R. Morris (PDF)

487-492. The Evolution of Extraordinary Eyes: The Cases of Flatfishes and Stalk-eyed Flies by Carl Zimmer (PDF)
(Blog: The Loom)

493-497. Suboptimal Optics: Vision Problems as Scars of Evolutionary History by Steven Novella (PDF)
(Blog: NeuroLogica)

Curriculum articles

498-504. Bringing Homologies Into Focus by Anastasia Thanukos (PDF)
(Website: Understanding Evolution)

505-508. Misconceptions About the Evolution of Complexity by Andrew J. Petto and Louise S. Mead (PDF)
(Website: NCSE)

509-516. Losing Sight of Regressive Evolution by Monika Espinasa and Luis Espinasa (PDF)

Book reviews

548-551. Jay Hosler, An Evolutionary Novelty: Optical Allusions by Todd H. Oakley (PDF)

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