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Turkey Drops Evolution From Curriculum, Angering Secularists

A chapter on evolution will no longer appear in ninth graders’ textbooks because it is considered too “controversial” an idea, an education official said.

From the NYTimes News-2017-6-23:20:6:1

Review: In ‘Food Evolution,’ Scientists Strike Back

Scott Hamilton Kennedy’s documentary gives G.M.O. opponents their say, but leaves the last word to food technologists, who insist on reviewing the data.

From the NYTimes News-2017-6-22:20:6:1

Koalas 'facing extinction' in some Australian states

The conservation group WWF is warning that koalas could be wiped out in some Australian states amid deforestation and increasing attacks by livestock.

From the BBC News-2017-6-22:8:5:1

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Evolution 4th Ed, by D.J.Futuyma and M.Kirkpatrick, from Oxford Univ Press (Jun 23).

The Evolution Underground by A.J. Martin, from Pegasus Books (Jun 21).

Evolution of the Rodents Advances in Phylogeny, Functional Morphology and Development Editors: Philip G. Cox, et al. from Cambridge Univ Press (Jun 15).

Floral Mimicry by S.D. Johnson and F.P. Schiestl from Oxford Univ Press (May 31).

Royal Society Publishing has recently published a special issue of Philosophical Transactions B entitled Animal coloration edited by Tim Caro, Mary Caswell Stoddard and Devi Stuart-Fox. Content is open. (May 26).

T.Werner and J.Jaenike have published a guidebook to the Drosophilids of the Midwest and Northeast, which can be downloaded as a free eBook. (May 14).

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SELECTED FORTHCOMING ARTICLES

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Jun 24 08:00	Evolution of cytochrome c oxidase in hypoxia tolerant sculpins (Cottidae, Actinopterygii) - Gigi Y. Lau, Milica Mandic, Jeffrey G. Richards (MBE)
Jun 24 08:00	Small RNA activity in archaeological barley shows novel germination inhibition in response to environment - Oliver Smith et al. (MBE)
Jun 23 08:00	Transposable Elements Mediate Adaptive Debilitation of Flagella in Experimental Escherichia coli Populations - Gordon R. Plague et al. (JME)
Jun 23 08:00	Using viral gene sequences to compare and explain the heterogeneous spatial dynamics of virus epidemics - Simon Dellicour et al. (MBE)
Jun 22 16:00	Evolution of nonspectral rhodopsin function at high altitudes - Gianni M. Castiglione et al. (PNAS)
Jun 22 08:00	Mutational biases influence parallel adaptation - Arlin Stoltzfus, David M. McCandlish (MBE)
Jun 22 08:00	Genomic reconstruction of the history of native sheep reveals the peopling patterns of nomads and the expansion of early pastoralism in East Asia - Yong-Xin Zhao et al. (MBE)

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http://www.asianevo.org/html/programme/topics.html

Dear Colleagues:

We are inviting proposals for symposia for the 1st Asian Evolutionary
Conference to be held at Shenzhen, China on April 18th-20th. The
currently confirmed speakers include, Shigeru Kuratani (RIKEN),
Wen-Hsiung Li (Academia Sinica), Manyuan Long (University of Chicago),
Nori Satoh (Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology), Zhonghe Zhou
(Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology), Xing Xu
(Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology).

We launch this platform to connect Asian researchers to the rest of the
world for their common interest in evolution. We expect the conference
to promote cross-disciplinary collaboration among countries,
particularly to nurture the new generation of evolutionary scientists.

The selected symposia will receive substantial financial support to
cover at most three invited speakers' registration, travel and
accommodation. To encourage young researchers to attend the conference,
we will also offer fellowships for five postdocs and five PhD students.

The symposium submission deadline is August 15th, 2017. More details of
the conference can be found at http://www.asianevo.org/html/index.html

Qi Zhou

Conference Committee:
- Hiroshi Akashi, Department of Population Genetics, National Institute
  of Genetics at Japan
- Shu-Miaw Chaw, Biodiversity Research Center, Academia Sinica
- Qiaomei Fu,Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology,
  Chinese Academy of Sciences
- Naoki Irie, University of Tokyo
- Antonia Monteiro, National University of Singapore
- Kinya Ota, Academia Sinica
- Uma Ramakrishnan, National Centre for Biological Sciences at India
- Chau-Ti Ting, National Taiwan University
- Zhiheng Wang, Peking University
- Xing Xu, Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology,
  Chinese Academy of Sciences
- Jr-Kai Yu, Institute of Cellular and Organismic Biology,
  Academia Sinica
- Guojie Zhang, BGI & Kunming Institute of Zoology
- Qi Zhou, Zhejiang University

Zhou Qi <zhouqi1982@zju.edu.cn>

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