Rutgers Journal Club in Evolution focusing on Darwin this spring

 The Rutgers Journal Club in Evolution is focusing on Darwin this spring:

Please join us and read:

Darwin's The Origin of Species

in Journal Club in Evolution Spring 2012
on Tuesdays 9:15-10:35, 145 ENR, Cook Campus

We will read and discuss one chapter a week, paired with a modern
research paper that addresses similar questions in evolution.

The Origin of Species is available for free online, and the modern
paper will be posted on the Rutgers’ Evolution Mailing List
(subscribe at https://email.rutgers.edu/mailman/listinfo/evolution_ru).

Preliminary schedule and what to read
Jan 17: Introduction, Chapter 1 - Variation under Domestication
Jan 24: Chapter 2 - Variation under Nature
Jan 31: Chapter 3 - Struggle for Existence
Feb 7: Chapter 4 - Natural Selection
Feb 14: Chapter 5 - Laws of Variation
Feb 21: Chapter 6 - Difficulties on Theory
Feb 28: Chapter 7 - Instinct
March 6: Chapter 8 - Hybridism
March 20: Chapter 9 - On the Imperfection of the Geological Record
March 27: Chapter 10 - On the Geological Succession of Organic Beings
April 3: Chapter 11 - Geographical Distribution
April 10: Chapter 12 - Geographical Distribution /continued
April 17: Chapter 13 - Mutual Affinities of Organic Beings
April 24: Chapter 14 - Recapitulation and Conclusion

For questions, contact Lena Struwe & Siobain Duffy
struwe@aesop.rutgers.edu / duffy@aesop.rutgers.edu

Link to flyer here.