Don’t call it Darwinism

For those of you who still are not reading Evolution: Education and Outreach, here’s another reason to check it out.

Eugenie Scott and Glenn Branch of the National Center for Science Education have a nice article coming out in the next issue entitled “Don’t call it Darwinism“. It is already free to access in [...]


Evolutionary gems — Nature.

Nature recently provided a list of “15 evolutionary gems“. …the document summarizes 15 lines of evidence from papers published in Nature over the past 10 years. The evidence is drawn from the fossil record, from studies of natural and artificial habitats, and from research on molecular biological processes.

In a year in which Darwin [...]


The peppered moth.

The peppered moth, Biston betularia, has been used as a classic example of natural selection in action. This moth (like many others) includes both light and dark forms that change in frequency under conditions of higher or lower pollution. Anti-evolutionists have challenged this, and unfortunately they gained ammunition in this regard from a book [...]


Special issue of the Lancet.

From The Evolution & Medicine Review, a notification about the special issue of the Lancet on evolution. (And don’t forget the special issue of E:EO!).

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Charles Darwin did not know much about medicine (and neither did any of [...]


All about eye evolution.

The most recent issue of Evolution: Education and Outreach is now available free online. This is a special issue devoted to the evolution of eyes. Enjoy.

Evolution: Education and OutreachVolume 1 Issue 4The evolution of eyesEdited by T. Ryan Gregory

Editorial351. Editorial by Gregory Eldredge and Niles Eldredge (PDF)

352-354. Introduction by T. Ryan [...]


E:EO 1(3).

I have previously been pleased to announce on Genomicron the release of the first two issues of Volume 1 of Evolution: Education and Outreach. I am equally pleased to point out that Issue 3 is now available free online.

As a special treat, I note that editors-in-chief Greg and Niles Eldredge mention Genomicron in [...]


Evolution: Education and Outreach, issue 2.

The second issue of Evolution: Education and Outreach is available online and the various papers are free to download. The actual hard copy of the issue will be out sometime next month.

My contribution is called “Understanding evolutionary trees“, which I hope will clarify some misunderstandings of this important topic.

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Evolutionary trees for Darwin Day.

In time for Darwin Day, my article on “Understanding evolutionary trees” in the forthcoming issue of Evolution: Education and Outreach is now freely available as a preprint online.

Here is the article abstract: Charles Darwin sketched his first evolutionary tree in 1837, and trees have remained a central metaphor in evolutionary biology up to [...]


Journal list.

The following is not a complete list, and I freely admit to an evolutionary, genetic, and zoological bias in my research interests, but perhaps someone else will find these bookmarks useful too. American Naturalist Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution, and Systematics Annual Review of Genetics Annual Review of Genomics and Human Genetics BioEssays [...]