Daily Newsletter March 12, 2012
Administrative Note: Upon the recommendation of a colluege, you are going to try a different peer review service. You will be given an opportunity after this review to comment on which you found more useful and esier to use.
More information about the service will come when the site opens after 5pm tonight. You will have until Wednesday night to upload your papers. You can continue to review until Sunday night (you must review all papers given you to).
Today's Topic: Bacterial Evolution
What do you remember about evolution?
Think for a minute. Could you define evolution? If someone asked you to explain evolution, could you? Today, I want you to do an evolution refresher.
Go through the tutorial sections An Introduction to Evolution and Mechanisms: The Process of Evolution. This tutorial entitled Evolution 101 is part of an effort by Berkeley University to increase awareness and understanding of evolution. It is an excellent resource to refresh your understanding of evolutionary theory and a great place to find out about modern evolutionary research.
I would also recommend reading Problem Concepts in Evolution, for a good discussion of misconceptions and rebuttal against perceived problems with evolutionary theory. The Evolution FAQ from PBS is another excellent resource. A final site of interest is the Index of Creationist Claims, which includes rebuttals to each claim.
Take time to consider evolution. You will need a good foundation for what we will be talking about this week.
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Daily Challenge: During a debate on whether Evolution should be taught in high schools, you have been asked to provide a 10 minute explaination on how biologists view evolution and why the concept of evolution is considered central to biology. NOTE: your doing this from the perspective of a biologist. If you hold religious opinions, you may share them, but only after you explain the scientific theory of evolution. (Remember a theory is a robustly supported hypothesis, and thus it is based on accumulated data, i.e., facts.)
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