Com vostès ja saben - Darwin està tenint un gran any en 2009. Tots els increïbles recursos estan proporcionant grans oportunitats per aprendre i ensenyar més sobre l'evolució. Em ha enumerat alguns dels meus favorits aquí i espero que s'inclouen altres que han trobat útils en la secció de comentaris a continuació. Aquí està una llista dels materials que s'examina a continuació:
Aquesta és una línia completa que inclou les obres publicades de Darwin, els seus quaderns de recerca, i materials relacionats. Té els recursos per començar (has llegit l'Sobre l'origen de les espècies?), I materials per a l'estudiós seriós (es pot trobar aquí les 6 edicions). He gaudit especialment de la col lecció de Darwin esbossos dels seus espècimens i la BBC, el format d'àudio llibre de Darwin Diario de Beagle.
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Robert Pennock, President, Comitè d'Educació SSE Thomas Meagher, President, SSE Darwin 200 Grup de Treball A:
Evolució Directori (EvoDir) llista de correu
Esperem que tots hagin tingut una bonica festa d'aniversari de Charles Darwin el 12 de febrer. Et convidem a veure les salutacions d'aniversari SSE YouTube en el següent enllaç: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jn7zLGJE9EY.
Aquesta és una divertida col lecció de cants i biòleg evolutiu dient feliç aniversari a Chuck.
He trobat que sovint les vagues Scientific American el to adequat per a la introducció de contingut científic difícil establir audiències. The January 2009 issue has a diverse collection of Darwin and evolution related articles includeing:
- Diversity Revealed: From Atoms to Traits . By David M. Kingsley Charles Darwin saw that random variations in organisms provide fodder for evolution. Modern scientists are revealing how that diversity arises from changes to DNA and can add up to complex creatures or even cultures .
- The Science of Spore–The “Evolution” of Gaming . By Ed Regis A computer game illustrates the difference between building your own simulated creature and real-life natural selection .
- The Evolutionary Origins of Hiccups and Hernias . By Neil H. Shubin How biological hand-me-downs inherited from fish and tadpoles evolved into human maladies.
- Putting Evolution to Use in the Everyday World . By David P. Mindell Understanding of evolution is fostering powerful technologies for health care, law enforcement, ecology, and all manner of optimization and design problems .
You can see the entire TOC here and all the articles are available online.
The Year of Science 2009 (YoS09) is a national, year-long celebration of science. The goals of the project include engaging the public and improving public understanding about how science works, why it matters, and who scientists are. Each month has a different science theme and Evolution takes center stage in February . As an attempt to raise public awareness, I think the section call “ Exploring Evolutionary Thought ” is particularly useful. It includes brief interviews with more than 20 scientists in which they describe the role that evolution plays in their work.
Science is celebrating the 150th anniversary of the publication of Charles Darwin’s On the Origin of Species and the 200th anniversary of the author’s birth with a variety of news features, scientific reviews and other special content, all collected here . The materials include:
- An ongoing companion blog titled “Origns: A History of Beginnings” which is organized into the categories, “All Things Darwin”, “Evolution and Culture”, “Origin Essays”, and “The Science of Origins”.
- Podcasts, book reviews and essays related to Darwin and evolution.
- Links to the February 6th issue which focuses on speciation (some of this content requires a subscription).
It should be interesting to watch this collection grow throughout the year.
From a very useful compendium of popular press coverage of Darwin’s Anniversary at the National Center for Science Edcuation:
In recognition of Darwin’s 200th birthday, February 12, 2009, the mass media are again taking notice of Darwin’s life, accomplishments, and importance and influence. Writing to Charles Lyell in 1860, Darwin was wryly amused at the sort of newspaper coverage he was receiving in the wake of the publication of the Origin of Species : “I have received in a Manchester Newspaper a rather … good squib, showing that I have proved ‘might is right’, & therefore that Napoleon is right & every cheating Tradesman is also right.” Fortunately, today’s journalists exhibit a higher degree of accuracy than their Victorian colleagues at the Manchester Guardian ! Herewith a sampling of the recent coverage of the Darwin bicentennial.
Click here to read the full post at the NCSE web site. I includes information about and links to content from Science News, National Public Radio, BBC, CBC, The New York Times and several more.
