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Darwinian medicine's drawn-out dawn

Twenty years ago, evolutionary biologists began urging physicians to embrace evolutionary thinking to help understand why we get sick. Where are we now? NESCent scientists and colleagues reflect on the state of evolutionary medicine in Science Magazine. READ MORE>>

Ancient crickets hint at the origins of insect hearing

How did insects get their hearing? A new study of 50 million year-old cricket and katydid fossils — sporting some of the best preserved fossil insect ears described to date— help trace the evolution of the insect ear. READ MORE>>

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Evoci toolkit: concept inventories to assess conceptual understanding of evolution
6-Feb-2012 ~ 9-Feb-2012  Meeting
Using Community Detection to Construct Social Networks
15-Feb-2012  Seminar
Large-scale demographic, network and behavioral trait analyses of sociality
17-Feb-2012 ~ 20-Feb-2012  Meeting
Selective Attention in Peahens During Courtship
22-Feb-2012  Seminar
Phenotype Ontology RCN Summit
23-Feb-2012 ~ 25-Feb-2012  Meeting