UNCW's Evolution Learning Community presents "Darwin: Discovering the Tree of Life" by Dr. Niles Eldredge at the UNCW Burney Center on (Campus Map) Wednesday, September 17, 2008 at 7:30 pm.
Dr. Niles Eldredge has been a paleontologist on the curatorial staff of the American Museum of Natural History since 1969. His specialty is the evolution of trilobites-a group of extinct arthropods that lived between 535 and 245 million years ago.
Eldredge's main professional passion is evolution. Throughout his career, he has used repeated patterns in the history of life to refine ideas on how the evolutionary process actually works. The theory of "punctuated equilibria," developed with Stephen Jay Gould in 1972, was an early milestone. Eldredge went on to develop a hierarchical vision of evolutionary and ecological systems, and in his book The Pattern of Evolution (1999) he has developed a comprehensive theory (the "sloshing bucket") that specifies in detail how environmental change governs the evolutionary process. (more ...)
Tuesday, August 26, 2008
A Teacher on the Front Line as Faith and Science Clash
A Teacher on the Front Line as Faith and Science Clash - (By Amy Harmon, New York Times)
David Campbell is bringing Florida’s mandate to teach evolution to many students raised to take the biblical creation story as fact.
From: Dr. Tom Schmid (UNCW Department of Philosophy and Religion)
David Campbell is bringing Florida’s mandate to teach evolution to many students raised to take the biblical creation story as fact.
From: Dr. Tom Schmid (UNCW Department of Philosophy and Religion)
Wednesday, August 20, 2008
Darwin to the rescue
There is an interesting article “Darwin to the Rescue: a group of scholars thinks evolutionary science can reinvigorate literary studies” in the Chronicle Review. http://chronicle.com/free/v54/i47/47b00701.htm.
From: Dr. Tom Schmid (UNCW Department of Philosophy and Religion)
From: Dr. Tom Schmid (UNCW Department of Philosophy and Religion)
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