Today will be the second meeting of our Honors Evolution class. We started off discussing the (loose!) structure of the class, and today we'll discuss Bill McKibben's excellent piece in Rolling Stone regarding the fossil fuel industry and the inevitability of significant climate change, along with the initial white paper developed by the ECCO workgroup pulled together by NSF in 2009. Here is where the rubber meets the road: starting today, the class will be reading papers related to how evolution affects the response trajectory of species as their environment changes rapidly, and hopefully we'll be building an interesting and useful resource here on this webpage. Stay tuned!
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