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Tag Archives: Biological Evolution
Natural Rejection: Addressing Student Resistance to Evolution Education
Reposted from the Teaching Evolution in Action blog By Ian Zaback It’s a moment that we’ve all dreaded in one way or another. A student approaches you at the end of class clutching a note, and as the paper changes … Continue reading
BEACON Researchers at Work: Carnivore Skull Evolution
This week’s BEACON Researchers at Work blog post is by MSU graduate student Nikki Cavalieri. Why? Why do tree frogs stick to glass but toads don’t? Why are baby skinks tail’s blue but adult’s not? Why are puppies and kittens … Continue reading
BEACON Researchers at Work: The Age of Phage
This week’s BEACON Researchers at Work blog post is by MSU faculty member Kristin Parent, with John Dover. This year marks the 100th anniversary of the discovery of viruses that infect bacteria—the bacteriophages. One may think (as many do) that … Continue reading
BEACON Researchers at Work: An Adventure in Thailand
This week’s BEACON Researchers at Work blog post is by MSU postdoc Eben Gering. I. The Land of the Leech This spring I received a last-minute invitation to join a French film crew in Thailand, which left me a) totally … Continue reading
BEACON Researchers at Work: The Social Lives of Bacteria
This week’s BEACON Researchers at Work blog post is by MSU faculty member Chris Waters. “Nature red in tooth and claw”-Lord Alfred Tennyson Tennyson’s famous phrase eloquently describes the adversarial nature (pun intended) that arises from Darwin’s concepts of natural … Continue reading
BEACON Researchers at Work: What ice cream and biofuels have in common: vanillin and the microbes that eat it
This week’s BEACON Researchers at Work blog post is by University of Idaho postdoc Jessica Audrey Lee. Greetings, BEACON fans. I’m writing from beautiful Moscow, ID, where I work as a postdoctoral researcher in the Marx Lab at the University … Continue reading
Tortoises, hares, and topography: how fitness landscape structure affects the speed of adaptation
Hello fellow BEACONites and interested members of the public, I’m Josh Nahum, a postdoctoral fellow, who was at the University of Washington during the early years of the Beacon Center, but now I’m doing research at Michigan State University (more … Continue reading
BEACON Researchers at Work: Listening to the hyenas
This week’s BEACON Researchers at Work blog post is by MSU graduate student Kenna Lehmann. Have you ever seen a group of hyenas take down a zebra? Or fight off a pride of lions? Ok, probably not, so you’ll have … Continue reading
BEACON Researchers at Work: The Original Social Gaming
This week’s BEACON Researchers at Work blog post is by University of Texas at Austin postdoc Tessa Solomon-Lane. I can trace the beginning of my fascination with social behavior to the summer I was ten. That summer, I started volunteering … Continue reading
BEACON Researchers at Work: Same behavior, same genes?
This week’s BEACON Researchers at Work blog post is by University of Texas at Austin research associate Rebecca Young. From an early age I spent my time outside – chasing lizards, riding horses, and begging to go to a zoo. … Continue reading