Great idea: Thought this was a pretty-important finding...
New evolution/microbe-related smoking gun for Permian mass extinction: http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2014/03/26/1318106111 Links to both evolution, ecology, and climate change. Dave On 5/7/14 12:52 PM, "David Inouye" <[email protected]> wrote: >I'm planning to end my ecology/evolution courses this semester with a >section on what we have learned as recently as this year, which might >cause the course to be taught differently next year. Some examples >I've thought of already: > >- increased recognition of the problem of antibiotic resistance, and >some efforts to address it (e.g., large meat producers announcing >they will stop prophylactic use of antibiotics) > >- discovery of new human (and other) fossils that will probably >result in changes in how we understand the history of our species > >- new results from genomic analysis of hominids such as Homo >neanderthalensis, and the discovery of 20% of their genome in our species. > >- increased information about the consequences of climate change; >e.g., the report yesterday of the National Climate Assessment > >- A greater understanding of the significance of gut microbiomes > >What other examples should I include that will help document how >rapidly and significantly ecological science and evolution are changing? > >David Inouye >.
