Re: Discussion topic: "evo-devo"

Brian D Harper (harper.10@osu.edu)
Fri, 11 Jul 1997 08:35:45 -0400

At 11:05 AM 7/9/97 -0600, Terry Gray wrote:
>Got my new issue of _Science_ today (July 4, 1997) and on pages 34-39 there
>is a special news report entitled "Developing a New View of Evolution"
>subtitled "Evolutionary and developmental biologists have joined forces to
>create a new field, unraveling the mysteries of evolution by studying the
>genes that control how an embryo develops".
>
>Perhaps as a change of pace for the group, we could read this material and
>discuss it--comments, questions for clarification, insights, critique, etc.
>You can get to it on-line through http://www.sciencemag.org, although I
>think you have to pay something to get access to the full articles.
>

This sounds like a great topic for discussion. Unfortunately, the
July 4th issue of <Science> hasn't arrived yet at our Library.
Hopefully it will get here *before* the collapse of Darwinism ;-).

Brian Harper
Associate Professor
Applied Mechanics
The Ohio State University

"If cucumbers had anti-gravity,
sunsets would be more interesting"
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