Universities are charged with developing the next generation for a future we can’t predict. Here are three lessons from evolutionary biology to make sense of a changing world – and three skills the ...

PROF. JEFFERY PARKER is to be congratulated on having produced an extremely well-written, well-considered, and original class-book. The teaching of so-called “elementary biology” has, in consequence ...

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THIS MUST BE Genetic Disorders Month in Kelsey’s biology class. I know the teacher is trying to explain how genes and chromosomes work, but every day my 16-year-old comes home with a new, often fatal, ...

The first-year introductory biology sequence provides a crucial foundation for students' careers. Some groups, such as first-generation college students (FGCS), lag behind their non-first-generation ...