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	Evolutionary biology -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Evolutionary biology is a subfield of (The science that studies living organisms) biology concerned with the origin and descent of ((biology) taxonomic group whose members can interbreed) species, as well as their change over time, i.e.
		Evolutionary biology as an (additional info and facts about academic discipline) academic discipline in its own right emerged as a result of the (additional info and facts about modern evolutionary synthesis) modern evolutionary synthesis in the (The decade from 1930 to 1939) 1930s and (The decade from 1940 to 1949) 1940s.
		Now, evolutionary researchers are taking advantage our extensive understanding of microbial physiology, the ease of microbial (The branch of genetics that studies organisms in terms of their genomes (their full DNA sequences)) genomics, and the quick generation time of some microbes to answer evolutionary questions.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/e/ev/evolutionary_biology.htm (733 words)

	Evolutionary biology - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Evolutionary biology is something of a meta field because it includes scientists from many traditional taxonomically-oriented disciplines.
		Evolutionary biology's frameworks of ideas and conceptual tools are now finding application in the study of a range of subjects from computing to nanotechnology.
		Now, evolutionary researchers are taking advantage our extensive understanding of microbial physiology, the ease of microbial genomics, and the quick generation time of some microbes to answer evolutionary questions.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Evolutionary_biology (613 words)

	Ernst Mayr - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		His work contributed to the conceptual revolution that led to the modern evolutionary synthesis of Mendelian genetics and Darwinian evolution, and to the development of the biological species concept.
		As a traditionally trained biologist with little mathematical experience, Mayr was often highly critical of early mathematical approaches to evolution such as those of J.
		In many of his writings, Mayr rejected reductionism in evolutionary biology, arguing that evolutionary pressures act on the whole organism, not on single genes, and that genes can have different effects depending on the other genes present.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ernst_Mayr (1445 words)

	Evolutionary biologist: race in humans a social, not biological, concept
		Evolutionary biologist: race in humans a social, not biological, concept
		In the 50th year since the discovery of DNA, Washington University evolutionary and population biologist Alan Templeton says that there are not enough genetic differences between groups of people to say that there are sub-lineages (races) of humans.
		Templeton is a renowned evolutionary and population biologist who has analyzed billions of genetic pairings called base pairs for numerous evolution and population biology studies.
	news-info.wustl.edu /tips/page/normal/184.html (683 words)

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		He may be the best-known evolutionary biologist since Darwin, as the obit says, but is not the only one with a claim to such eminence.
		Evolutionary biologists had always ascribed such difficulties to the famous incompleteness of the fossil record.
		John Maynard Smith, evolutionary biologist at University of Sussex in England, wrote that other evolutionary biologists "tend to see him as a man whose ideas are so confused as to be hardly worth bothering with." Sometimes these criticisms descended into so-called "Gould-bashing" where the charges were as personal as intellectual.
	www-personal.umich.edu /~twod/xray/alas/source/web/source/itd/emergence/research_website/punct_equilibria.mai (1703 words)

	Position 10: Empreical Evolutionary Biology (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		We propose a position in empirical evolutionary biology for a evolutionary biologist with a strong experimentally based program who would complement the expertise in theory and molecular phylogenetics already in place in the Departments of Zoology and Botany at UBC.
		We propose hiring an empirical evolutionary biologist with emphasis in the selection process choosing the individual with the most exciting research program with a strong field-based component.
		Evolutionary biologists at UBC are attached to several departments, including Zoology, botany, forest genetics and mathematics, and represent several sub-fields of the discipline.
	www.zoology.ubc.ca /~berger/Academic_Plan/Hiring%20Plan/Pos10_Emperical_Evolution.htm (355 words)

	Evolutionary Theory: Bridging the Contributions of Evolutionary Archaeology and Evolutionary Ecology (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The discovery of proximate cause is the goal of the functionalist biologist-"What makes behavior happen at a given moment?"-whereas the goal of the evolutionary biologist is to discover the ultimate cause-"Why did the trait come about?" Like biology, anthropology falls into two largely separate fields-functional anthropology and evolutionary anthropology.
		The evolutionary anthropologist, on the other hand, is interested in why some cultural trait evolved with the focus on historical process and a desire to know what caused change in cultural traits (ultimate causation).
		In evolutionary biology, natural selection is defined as "a statistical measure of the difference in survival or reproduction among entities that differ in one or more characteristics.
	www.csulb.edu /~larson/Evolution (818 words)

	Metanexus Institute
		He describes himself as an evolutionary biologist with a wide range of interests, including natural selection as a hierarchical process, the nature of intraspecific variation, the evolution of ecological communities and human evolutionary biology.
		A number of developments in evolutionary biology during the last few decades are leading to a conception of cultural evolution that might prove robust and moreover converges with central themes of social constructivism.
		For sociobiology and evolutionary psychology to end up with any serious substantive morality requires smuggling in auxiliary assumptions and commitments that are alien to its own intellectual system....Sociobiology and evolutionary psychology's case might be merely amusing, were it not for the monumentally misanthropic practical consequences that should follow any widespread embrace of its program.
	www.metanexus.net /metanexus_online/show_article.asp?9167 (8441 words)

	The Third Culture - Part I Introduction
		The principal debates are concerned with the mechanism of speciation; whether natural selection operates at the level of the gene, the organism, or the species, or all three; and also with the relative importance of other factors, such as natural catastrophes.
		Among the evolutionary biologists, George C. Williams is the senior figure in the book.
		She is, in turn, an outspoken critic of mainstream evolutionary biologists for what she sees as a failure to adequately consider the importance of chemistry and microbiology in evolution.
	www.edge.org /documents/ThirdCulture/g-Pt.1Intro.html (1329 words)

	Memetics: An Evolutionary Theory of Cultural Transmission
		The aim of sociobiology and its latest offspring, evolutionary psychology, is to close the gap between the natural and the social sciences, bringing about a general -- and, according to their followers, long overdue -- «Darwinization» of the study of the human being.
		This stance leads sociobiologists and evolutionary psychologists to regard certain widespread behaviours, «backfiring» from the evolutionary point of view (such as the use of contraceptives), as the maladaptive result of the clash between the Stone Age instincts hardwired into our brains and our current technological environment.
		A further argument is that the evolutionary character of cultural transmission is not compromised by the definition of its inheritance mechanism as other than replication.
	www.sorites.org /Issue_15/alvarez.htm (1641 words)

	Criticisms of Evolutionary Psychology Aren’t Necessarily Specific to Evolutionary Psychology
		We evolutionary biologists cannot generate a Cretaceous Park to observe exactly what killed the dinosaurs; and, unlike "harder" scientists, we usually cannot resolve issues with a simple experiment, such as adding tube A to tube B and noting the color of the mixture.
		The byproduct theory may justify the view of rape as an evolutionary pathology, an indirect consequence of male sexuality and aggression; and the byproduct theory may also justify the feminist view that rape is simply a way for males to dominate and humiliate females.
		Evolutionary psychology is an embarrassment to UltraDarwinian biology simply because it makes it possible for non-scientists to see the type of argument that so often permeates this thinking.
	www.idthink.net /back/coyne (2703 words)

	Harvard Gazette: Ernst Mayr, giant among evolutionary biologists, dies at 100
		Ernst Mayr, the Harvard University evolutionary biologist who has been called "the Darwin of the 20th century," died yesterday morning (Feb. 3) at a retirement community in Bedford, Mass.
		Widely considered the world's most eminent evolutionary biologist and even one of the 100 greatest scientists of all time, Mayr joined Harvard's Faculty of Arts and Sciences in 1953 as Alexander Agassiz Professor of Zoology and led Harvard's Museum of Comparative Zoology from 1961 to 1970.
		Driven by a lifelong interest in the "why" of evolutionary biology, he also pioneered the study of the philosophy and history of biology.
	www.news.harvard.edu /gazette/daily/2005/02/04-mayr.html (888 words)

	Open Directory - Science: Social Sciences: Psychology: Evolutionary Psychology (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Evolutionary Psychology: An Emerging Integrative Perspective within the Science and Practice of Psychology - A article on the theory and implications of this theory by Leif Edward Ottesen Kennair.
		Evolutionary Psychology Challenges the Current Social Sciences - This article attempts to describe evolutionary psychology and the challenge it poses to traditional social science, and then discusses opportunities evolutionary psychology opens for Christian apologetics.
		Evolutionary Psychology Primer by Leda Cosmides and John Tooby - An invaluable primer written by two of the founders of the field.
	dmoz.org /Science/Social_Sciences/Psychology/Evolutionary_Psychology (1803 words)

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		A number of his papers on evolutionary theory have been published in international science journals in recent years, and he is the author of the book "Evolution's Arrow: The Direction of Evolution and the Future of Humanity", Canberra: The Chapman Press, 2000.
		The motivations and volitions (moral or otherwise) that were favoured by Darwinian selection in their evolutionary past are highly unlikely to be optimal for their successful survival throughout the next million years.
		For example, if an individual chooses to pursue evolutionary success as her ultimate goal, she will be able to align her internal reward system with evolutionary goals [9].
	www.metanexus.net /archives/printerfriendly.asp?archiveid=8330 (4882 words)

	Destructive Engagement Policy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		A large source of opposition to the teaching of Creation in publich schools comes from evolutionary biologists, geologists, and other scientists at colleges, universities, and liberal think tanks.
		In these situations it is unusually effective for several members to log in as "teachers in search of help", which draws in evolutionary biologists, for hours, like helpless moths.
		More broadly, more and more evolutionary biologists feel compelled to write large books critiquing Creationism, Intelligent Design, and other ideas that undermine their beliefs in scientism.
	home.comcast.net /%7Evanandel1/engage.htm (299 words)

	Ernst Mayr -- evolutionary biologist / Harvard professor was key modernizer of Darwin's theory
		Between the world wars and for decades afterward, Harvard Professor Mayr played a key role in developing the modern "synthesis" of evolutionary theory, which hybridized Charles Darwin's classical 19th century model of the evolution of terrestrial life with modern research in fields ranging from genetics to statistics.
		He "retired" in 1975 but remained astonishingly active as a researcher, writer and debater, and he maintained close connections with younger generations of evolutionary biologists such as Stephen Jay Gould, who died in 2002, and Niles Eldredge.
		Previously, Darwin's theory of extremely gradual evolutionary change had long been out of favor, and the dominant notion was that species could undergo sudden, radical changes that produce "hopeful monsters" almost overnight.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2005/02/05/BAGDGB6HN81.DTL&type=printable (647 words)

	Biologist's find alters the bacteria family tree
		The bacteria family tree may be facing some changes due to the recent work of an evolutionary biologist at Washington University in St. Louis.
		As an evolutionary biologist, Blank said she is, "really interested in the view of the earth and microorganisms and how they come together." She uses elements of biology and geology to understand how the earth and its inhabitants co-evolved.
		Blank, an assistant professor of geomicrobiology in the Department of Earth & Planetary Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis, used an evolutionary analysis technique pioneered by Carl Woese, Ph.D., professor emeritus of microbiology at the University of Illinois, to construct evolutionary trees of the bacteria.
	www.eurekalert.org /pub_releases/2004-04/wuis-bfa041304.php (995 words)

	Columbia Earth Institute -- News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The study, reported Monday in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences by Joe Thornton, a research scientist and evolutionary biologist at Columbia's Earth Institute, completes a piece of a deep evolutionary puzzle by explaining the emergence of new hormones and other molecules that are parts of complex biological systems.
		Steroid hormones are critical to a wide range of biological processes, but their evolutionary origins have been a mystery.
		Thornton then used molecular phylogenetic methods to reconstruct the evolutionary relationships among the lamprey receptors and those of other dozens of other vertebrate species based on their gene sequences.
	www.earthinstitute.columbia.edu /news/story5_1_01.html (1245 words)

	Amazon.com: Evolutionary Biology: Books: Douglas J. Futuyma (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Previous editions of Evolutionary Biology, widely used and translated into five other languages, were praised for their broad scope, synthetic overview, and even-handed treatment of controversial topics.
		After introducing the historical, ecological, and genetic foundations of evolutionary study, the text progresses from the history of evolution as inferred from phylogeny and paleobiology, through the genetic mechanisms of evolutionary change and speciation, to the large, challenging themes of macroevolution, the evolution of diversity, and human evolution.
		As a teacher and an Evolutionary Biologist, it's disappointing that there aren't many textbooks or scholarly works, particularly in the field of evolution, that are both accessible and scientifically rigorous.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0878931899?v=glance (1742 words)

	Boston.com / News / Local / Mass. / Ernst Mayr, evolutionary biologist, dead at 100 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Ernst Mayr, one of the world's leading evolutionary biologists, died at a retirement community in Bedford.
		Mayr was so influential that he's credited with making the origin of species diversity the central question of evolutionary biology that it is today.
		He also was known for pioneering the accepted definition of a biological species, which is an interbreeding population that can't breed with other groups.
	www.boston.com /news/local/massachusetts/articles/2005/02/04/ernst_mayr_evolutionary_biologist_dead_at_100 (427 words)

	John Maynard Smith; noted British evolutionary biologist; 84 \| The San Diego Union-Tribune
		John Maynard Smith, an evolutionary biologist who revolutionized the study of animal behavior by applying the principles of game theory, died April 19 at his home in Sussex, England.
		His work helped to answer a wide variety of perplexing questions, explaining, for example, why animals seeking dominance rarely actually fight for it and why parents sometimes stay around to raise their offspring yet other times leave the burden to a mate.
		Influential in a wide variety of areas within evolutionary biology, Dean Maynard Smith is best known for his work involving game theory, which was originally inspired by the study of poker and which attempts to explain why strategies are more or less successful in different game situations.
	www.signonsandiego.com /uniontrib/20040504/news_1m4smith.html (705 words)

	Darwinian Medicine
		He's an evolutionary biologist at Amherst College in Massachusetts and perhaps the world's leading expert on how infectious diseases and the organisms that cause them evolve.
		The earliest suggestion of a Darwinian approach to medicine came in 1980, when George Williams, an evolutionary biologist at the State University of New York at Stony Brook, read an article in which Ewald discussed using Darwinian theory to illuminate the origins of certain symptoms of infectious disease things like fever, low iron counts, diarrhea.
		Seattle biologist Margie Profet points to menstruation as another "symptom" that may be more properly viewed as an evolutionary defense.
	www.people.virginia.edu /~rjh9u/darwmed.html (3334 words)

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