Comments on: Darwin meets the citizen scientists http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/loom/2011/04/29/darwin-meets-the-citizen-scientists/ Mon, 04 Feb 2013 17:13:44 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 By: Darwin Meets the Citizen Scientists at science-society.com http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/loom/2011/04/29/darwin-meets-the-citizen-scientists/#comment-16148 Darwin Meets the Citizen Scientists at science-society.com Mon, 23 May 2011 12:45:04 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/loom/?p=4482#comment-16148 [...] To Read More… « It’s Even Less in Your Genes [...] [...] To Read More… « It’s Even Less in Your Genes [...]

]]> By: John Emerson http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/loom/2011/04/29/darwin-meets-the-citizen-scientists/#comment-16147 John Emerson Sun, 08 May 2011 17:26:07 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/loom/?p=4482#comment-16147 Henry Davi Thoreau was a collector for Agassiz. He also criticized Agassiz's theistic interpretation of biology. Henry Davi Thoreau was a collector for Agassiz. He also criticized Agassiz’s theistic interpretation of biology.

]]> By: ping? http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/loom/2011/04/29/darwin-meets-the-citizen-scientists/#comment-16146 ping? Sun, 08 May 2011 09:58:58 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/loom/?p=4482#comment-16146 How about Georges Cuvier as the original crowdsource researcher? He had arranged for building contractors to seek fossil bones for him. How about Georges Cuvier as the original crowdsource researcher? He had arranged for building contractors to seek fossil bones for him.

]]> By: I’ve got your missing links right here (7 May 2011) | Not Exactly Rocket Science | moregoodstuff.info http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/loom/2011/04/29/darwin-meets-the-citizen-scientists/#comment-16145 I’ve got your missing links right here (7 May 2011) | Not Exactly Rocket Science | moregoodstuff.info Sat, 07 May 2011 18:36:06 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/loom/?p=4482#comment-16145 [...] “Charles Darwin was the original crowd-sourced scientist.” Carl Zimmer on the wonderfully named “Evolution Megalab” [...] [...] “Charles Darwin was the original crowd-sourced scientist.” Carl Zimmer on the wonderfully named “Evolution Megalab” [...]

]]> By: What if Darwin had access to the Internet? | Immortal Coils http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/loom/2011/04/29/darwin-meets-the-citizen-scientists/#comment-16144 What if Darwin had access to the Internet? | Immortal Coils Sun, 01 May 2011 21:41:24 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/loom/?p=4482#comment-16144 [...] Carl Zimmer provides the story: This research on Cepaea snails helped establish natural selection as a powerful force in evolution–although bird-driven natural selection turns out to be http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10983823“>not the sole force at work. Studies across Europe revealed, for example, that southern European snails are more likely to have yellow shells than their darker northern cousins. The difference is probably due to the climate: yellow shells bounce sunlight away and keep the southern snails cool. [...] [...] Carl Zimmer provides the story: This research on Cepaea snails helped establish natural selection as a powerful force in evolution–although bird-driven natural selection turns out to be http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10983823“>not the sole force at work. Studies across Europe revealed, for example, that southern European snails are more likely to have yellow shells than their darker northern cousins. The difference is probably due to the climate: yellow shells bounce sunlight away and keep the southern snails cool. [...]

]]> By: David Dobbs http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/loom/2011/04/29/darwin-meets-the-citizen-scientists/#comment-16143 David Dobbs Sat, 30 Apr 2011 18:16:25 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/loom/?p=4482#comment-16143 Ah, this is really nice. When I researched Darwin and other contemporaries for Reef Madness (http://amzn.to/DobbsReef), I found that many of them — Darwin, Louis Aggasiz, Asa Gray — had wide networks of collectors, some of whom were sort of merceneary collectors, who lived partly on income from selling animals or plants, and others of whom appeared to be citizen scientists. Louis Agassiz stuffed the Harvard Museum of Comparative Zoology with samples obtained from such people, and Asa Gray did likewise to stock his Herbarium at Harvard. Those collections both played a key role in the debate between Gray and Darwin over Darwin's theory of evolution ((see http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2011/04/how-charles-darwin-seduced-asa-gray/). Crowdsourcing didn't start with the Internet! Alas, no vids of this work are on YouTube. One more reason to love the MegaLab. Ah, this is really nice. When I researched Darwin and other contemporaries for Reef Madness (http://amzn.to/DobbsReef), I found that many of them — Darwin, Louis Aggasiz, Asa Gray — had wide networks of collectors, some of whom were sort of merceneary collectors, who lived partly on income from selling animals or plants, and others of whom appeared to be citizen scientists. Louis Agassiz stuffed the Harvard Museum of Comparative Zoology with samples obtained from such people, and Asa Gray did likewise to stock his Herbarium at Harvard. Those collections both played a key role in the debate between Gray and Darwin over Darwin’s theory of evolution ((see http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2011/04/how-charles-darwin-seduced-asa-gray/). Crowdsourcing didn’t start with the Internet!

Alas, no vids of this work are on YouTube. One more reason to love the MegaLab.

]]> By: kirk http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/loom/2011/04/29/darwin-meets-the-citizen-scientists/#comment-16142 kirk Fri, 29 Apr 2011 17:08:37 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/loom/?p=4482#comment-16142 At about this same time the OED was crowdsourced. Volunteers were assigned a reading list of books covering a certain era - the object to find earliest minting of a word in print. One of the best volunteers was an mental patient with OCD locked in an asylum. Amazon mistakenly sent me the book 'The Professor and the Madman' so three cheers for the hand of providence. At about this same time the OED was crowdsourced. Volunteers were assigned a reading list of books covering a certain era – the object to find earliest minting of a word in print. One of the best volunteers was an mental patient with OCD locked in an asylum. Amazon mistakenly sent me the book ‘The Professor and the Madman’ so three cheers for the hand of providence.

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