{"id":17670,"date":"2010-05-13T01:26:27","date_gmt":"2010-05-13T01:26:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/evolution-in-alabama-the-loom\/"},"modified":"2010-05-13T01:26:27","modified_gmt":"2010-05-13T01:26:27","slug":"evolution-in-alabama-the-loom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/astronomy\/evolution-in-alabama-the-loom.php","title":{"rendered":"Evolution in Alabama | The Loom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier today I <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/loom\/2010\/05\/12\/will-anyone-in-alabama-speak-for-evolution\/\">noted<\/a> a weird situation in Alabama, with a teacher-union-funded ad attacking a candidate for governor for believing in evolution, and the candidate declaring himself a defender of creationism in the schools. I wondered who would speak up for science in Alabama. But I&rsquo;d be remiss not to point out that good research in evolutionary biology does get done there. For example:<\/p><p><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/faculty.dom.uab.edu\/bhahn\/\">Beatrice Hahn<\/a> studies the evolution of HIV from chimpanzee-infecting viruses.<\/p><p><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/members.logical.net\/~marshall\/\">Marshal Abrams<\/a> studies the philosophical foundations of fitness.<\/p><p><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/bama.ua.edu\/~pharris\/lab\/\">Phillip Harris<\/a> studies the evolution of diversity in freshwater fishes.<\/p><p><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/bsc.ua.edu\/yoder.htm\">John Yoder<\/a> studies the evolution of new organs.<\/p><p><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/bsc.ua.edu\/secor.htm\">Steven Secor<\/a> studies the evolution of digestion in reptiles and amphibians, and <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pubmed\/17827047\">what they surprisingly say about the evolution of our own species<\/a>.<\/p><p>Jeannette Doeller and David Kraus have designed&nbsp;<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.uab.edu\/uabmagazine\/2009\/april\/evomed\">an innovative course<\/a> on integrating evolution and medicine.<\/p><p>I could go on (and please feel free add other scientists in the comment thread). Suffice to say, there&rsquo;s good stuff going on in Alabama. Too bad it&rsquo;s not better known there.<\/p><p><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/aZuiwpXjeWcosH4AFHX3GNNzqPw\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/6294f_di\" border=\"0\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/a><br><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/aZuiwpXjeWcosH4AFHX3GNNzqPw\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/6294f_di\" border=\"0\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/a><\/p><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/6294f_YqMrpqAxrac\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/6294f_fYy4GpZi_0k\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier today I noted a weird situation in Alabama, with a teacher-union-funded ad attacking a candidate for governor for believing in evolution, and the candidate declaring himself a defender of creationism in the schools. I wondered who would speak up &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/astronomy\/evolution-in-alabama-the-loom.php\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"limit_modified_date":"","last_modified_date":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17670","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy"],"modified_by":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17670"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17670"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17670\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}