Category Archives: Science History

By association

Posted on 27 Jan, 2022 by Jeremy Yoder

Update, February 1, 2022: Less than a week after I published this post, Stacy Farina — an evolutionary biologist at Howard University — and her husband Matthew Gibbons published an extensive look through E. O. Wilson’s correspondence with, and active … Continue reading →

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Introducing The Molecular Ecologist Podcast

Posted on 17 Mar, 2020 by Jeremy Yoder

The Molecular Ecologist is trying out a new medium for the first time since we launched: audio! That’s right, TME contributors, talking about the science we’ve been reading and writing about, recorded for easy listening on any internet-capable device. As … Continue reading →

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The brief history of African Americans in Evolutionary Biology, and why that is the case.

Posted on 17 Feb, 2020 by R Shawn Abrahams

Update, 11 June 2020: This post has been edited to clarify attributions. I remember the first day I met a Black faculty member in evolutionary biology. I had just finished my first year of graduate school and was attending the Workshop … Continue reading →

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