Check out this movie that uses Play Doh to explain the evolution of single-celled microbes to multicellular animals. It’s from Creature Cast, a very promising blog on biology from Casey Dunn of Brown University and his compadres.
CreatureCast Episode 2 from Casey Dunn on Vimeo.
Carl Zimmer writes about science regularly for the New York Times and magazines such as Discover, where he is a contributing editor and columnist.
He is the author of seven books, the most recent of which is The Tangled Bank: An Introduction To Evolution. His website is carlzimmer.com and his address is [ blog at carlzimmer dot com ].
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October 16th, 2009 at 12:01 am
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October 16th, 2009 at 1:08 pm
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October 19th, 2009 at 11:54 am
Am thrilled that a young assistant professor of evolutionary biology at a prominent Ivy League university has time to create a blog. Terrific!
October 21st, 2009 at 4:50 pm
Charming and straightforward, and Play Doh is the perfect medium to make it so. I’m sure a lot of people didn’t know before how important the segregation of germ cells is to the evolution of multicellularity!
October 22nd, 2009 at 9:28 am
I am recommending this series to a few TAs who might find it helpful with their undergrad students. What a wonderful project!
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