The insistence by some biologists that we must halt economic growth in order to save the environment has bothered me for some time, but I was prompted to write about it now because yet another, albeit minor, group has adopted a policy statement on the issue. That a naturalist group has agreed to this nonsense […]
From climate change to species extinctions, ecology has joined economics among the ranks of dismal sciences, and evolution may not be far behind. A short piece in this week’s edition of Science summarizes numerous studies across many species demonstrating the sinister impacts of fishing, and what it means for optimal management. It has […]
As I don’t have time tonight to finish an entire entry, let me briefly introduce myself to the reader and give her a flavor for what I will be writing about on the MP Blog. Currently I am a first-year graduate student at Indiana University studying evolutionary biology. For MP, I am working […]