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Alexander F. Schier, a developmental biologist known best for his work tracking the development of vertebrae in zebrafish will join the department beginning July...
...anti-elitism” in favor of a legitimate peer review system, one which displays a genuine respect for authority. If, for example, there’s a dispute over the evolutionary development of women, shouldn’t we hasten to give more credit to a noted biologist than to an economist? And at any rate, shouldn’t either researcher be considered more worthy of trust than a 13 year-old doing a science fair project...
Evolutionary biologist Ernst Mayr, often called the “Darwin of the 20th century,” died last Thursday at his retirement community in Bedford, Mass...
DIED. ERNST MAYR, 100, leading evolutionary biologist of the 20th century; in Bedford, Mass. Born in Germany, he became an avid bird watcher and turned away from a planned medical career to natural history. In the 1930s and '40s, he integrated the newly emerging field of genetics with Darwin's insights on evolution, showing how species arise when groups of similar organisms become separated--often by geography--and then accumulate genetic differences that no longer allow them to interbreed...
...press unfortunately followed one person’s lead and not Larry’s lead,” she said, referring to MIT biologist Nancy Hopkins ’64, who walked out of the conference halfway through Summers’ remarks...