Florida State E. O. Wilson talks and E. O. Wilson’s Biophilia center
Penny Gilmer, Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry at Florida State University, passes along some information about how to access video of talks by the E. O. Wilson, among others, who spoke at a Florida State Darwin Year conference.
At FSU we had an Origins ‘09 event, with a series of speakers on evolution, all in remembrance of Darwin. See this link for the main page: http://origins.fsu.edu/. Then look at the schedule link from that page. Also from the main page you can see a retrospective video of all the events.
GEOSET has the full talks of three of the speakers: E. O. Wilson, Sean Carroll, and Don Johanson, in two screen set-up so you can see the Powerpoints
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“Evolution in Extreme Environments” Symposium to be Webcast Live from NABT Conference in Denver
Even if you can’t make it to the Denver conference of the National Association of Biology Teachers, you can still take part by way of the WWW. Jory Weintraub, EE&O editorial board member and Science Education and Outreach Program Manager at NESCent, the National Evolutionary Synthesis Center, reports the following.
Are you interested in evolution, but unable to attend this year’s National Association of Biology Teachers (NABT) conference in Denver? Would you and your students like to learn more about how life evolves, adapts and flourishes in some of the most extreme environments on Earth, such as high altitude, in the deep-sea, or in caves? If so, you will be excited to learn that for the first
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Follow the EE&O blog on Twitter
The EEO Blogger now tweets as @eeoblogger. So, if you are on twitter, sign up to follow the blog! Tweets will include evolution news, links to web pages about events, people, institutions, places, educational resources and other material of interest to those curious and excited about evolution.
Blog posts have been slow in coming lately—there’s one coming up about Philip Kitcher’s recent talk at Yeshiva University about the evolution of ethics.
A mistaken—and racist—image of evolution
A familiar image is often used to represent human evolution. At the far left of the image, there is a small monkey-like creature, usually depicted walking on hands and knees. To the right of this creature, there is another, standing more upright, shorter than the next creature, to its right. At the far right of the picture, there is a human being, standing upright, with a familiar profile. Images of this kind have been copied into this posting. Note that the second comes from the Scientificblogging.com web site, where it is a permanent banner display marking out the section of the Life Sciences page about evolution.
It’s clear what this image is supposed …
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The blog is back online
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For a few days, this blog was not working. Now it does.
I will have to put up some new posts soon, I mean, some substantial ones, not just about the blog working or not working.
Look for a posting about a misleading pictorial representation of evolution, and one about the importance of studying human evolution, generated from some reflections on recent articles in EE&O.
EvoS Journal’s First Article
Rose Chang writes the following:
Hi everyone:
Issue 1 has its newest piece:
Fisher, M., Goetz, A., Hill, S., Kruger, D., Michalski, R., Osipowicz,
K., Platek, S. M., & Salmon, C. (2009). Voices from the field: Current
trends and experiences in Evolutionary Psychology. EvoS Journal: The
Journal of the Evolutionary Studies Consortium, 1(1), 11-33.While you are checking it out at (http:evostudies.org/vol1.html)
please also sign up for the RSS feed for EvoS Journal. Then you will
be first to learn of new articles!Thanks,
Rose Chang
Editor, EvoS Journal: The Journal of the Evolutionary Studies
Consortium
This is sure to be interesting and controversial, since it’s on the topic of Evolutionary Psychology, which is often divisive—some people think its main ideas are virtually self-evident as an approach to human thought and behavior, while …
Evolution in Biology Education: Sparking Imaginations and Supporting Learning
by Jenkins, Kristin P.
DOI: 10.1007/s12052-009-0158-8
Online Date: 8/8/2009
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Why Science Standards are Important to a Strong Science Curriculum and How States Measure Up
by Mead, Louise S.; Mates, Anton
In 2000, Lawrence Lerner and the Thomas B. Fordham Foundation reviewed state science standards in 49 states and the District of Columbia, specifically with respect to the coverage of evolution. We repeat his survey for all current standards publicly available as of May 2009 and discuss the history and role of state science standards in American public education. Our survey indicates that science standards tend to cover evolution more extensively than they did a decade ago, and that the average quality of the treatment has increased. However, certain types of creationist language are also becoming more common in state standards. We also discuss the history and role of state science standards in …
Why I Teach Evolution
by Eldredge, Greg
DOI: 10.1007/s12052-009-0160-1
Online Date: 8/7/2009
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