Student and Post-Doc Travel Grants - International Biogeography Society
The International Biogeography Society is awarding travel grants for
students and post-docs to attend the 2009 biennial meeting, which
will be held January 8-12, 2009 in Merida, Mexico. The U.S. National
Science
The fact that Gov. Palin laughed off this line of research isn't
surprising. After all, Sen. McCain had his go at bear research, and
that was a large charismatic mammal project.
The political implications alone are troubling. The larger issue in my
mind is that this is a real reflection of
It isn't just the public Joes that pose a problem. Governments too tend to
dump basic research when funding gets tight, failing to realise that this is
the resource on which all our scientific advances are based. The past few
decades have seen drastic cuts in research funding around the globe,
Colleagues:
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Hi all
I have a question on the temperature dependant sex determination of
reptiles. What is the evolutionary or ecological advantage of such a
phenomena, especially in reptiles when the females are produced under both
low and high temperature extremities?
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Thilina Dilan Surasinghe (BS in
Most of these things are not stupidity or lack of exposure, they are
simply ignorance. People in general have better science educations
now than they did 20 yrs ago. That is why these kinds of comments
seem to be hurting McCain's campaign. Just a few elections ago, a
rudimentary understanding
Thilina asks:
I have a question on the temperature dependant sex determination of
reptiles. What is the evolutionary or ecological advantage of such a
phenomena, especially in reptiles when the females are produced under both
low and high temperature extremities?
The simple answer is that no
