February 1, 2007
The next high-tech, eco-friendly fuel may seem like an all-natural choice: corn. Corn-based ethanol fuels have been in the news - and in the State of the Union address - as the U.S. looks to curb its dependence on fossil fuels. But is corn really "all-natural?" This month’s Evo in the News explains the evolutionary tools that ancient humans used to engineer modern corn and the tools that scientists are using today to reconstruct corn's evolutionary history. Get the full story at: http://evolution.berkeley.edu/evolibrary/news/070201_corn ...along with teaching resources, discussion questions, and links to additional information.
Other new Understanding Evolution resources include: * The genes that lie beneath: The work of Leslea Hlusko This research profile delves into the work of evolutionary biologist Leslea Hlusko, who studies a key component of natural selection: genetic variation. Her research takes her from the deserts of Ethiopia to hunt for hominid fossils to a baboon colony in San Antonio where she takes thousands of measurements of the primates' imposing canines. Find it (along with discussion questions) at: http://evolution.berkeley.edu/evolibrary/article/hlusko_01 Stay tuned for the next update.
Sincerely, The Understanding Evolution team
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