Category: South America
Did Past Climate Changes Promote Speciation in the Amazon? Any time you've got a whopping big river like the Amazon (or a mountain chain like the Andes, or an ocean, or whatever), you've gotta figure that it will be a biogeographical barrier. Depending on the...
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Category: Evolutionary Biology
A recent article in PLoS examines the possibility that disease is spreading from domestic to wild bees. Osmia ribifloris...
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Category: Insects
Continuing with our discussion of the Evolution 2008 conference ... Karen Oberhauser talked about the "single species" approach to pedagogy. This involves focusing on a single species and using it throughout an entire course. Karen has taught classes on this approach for teachers' professional development...
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