Daily Archives: March 10th, 2008

Evolution: Education–new issue!

March 10, 2008 – 8:41 pm

Just wanted to give everyone a heads up that the latest issue of Evolution: Education and Outreach is now online, and open access! [Volume 1, Number 2 / April, 2008]
There was a very nifty article on teaching evolution with skulls, in addition to other scholarly articles and a news round up.
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Indian “Biopiracy”

March 10, 2008 – 10:38 am

I am catching up on my journal reading, and was shocked to read this in Nature:
“An international collaboration to study insects in the Western Ghats mountains in southern India has been unable to get off the ground because of government concerns over biopiracy…the project has stalled because India’s National Biodiversity Authority (NBA) has denied the [...]

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