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| | Edge: STEVE JONES |
 | | STEVE JONES is a biologist; Professor of Genetics at the Galton Laboratory of University College London; coeditor (with Robert Martin and David Pilbeam) of The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Human Evolution; author of In the Blood; | | | Steve Jones is a highly regarded geneticist and snail biologist. | | | Jones finds that climate is also involved and most important that differences in microclimate on the scale of a few inches can alter the behavior and survival of snails of different pattern. |
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http://www.edge.org/3rd_culture/bios/jones.html
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| | Can you just....I'm sorry to be so very specific...counting as distinct from measuring?\par \par \b Steve Jones \b0 : Well you can count for example, round or wrinkled peas, you can measure the amount of carbohydrate in a pea, it's continuous. | | | \b\par \par Melvyn Bragg \b0 : So how did this reflect back into and restir the Darwin pot, Steve Jones?\par \par \b Steve Jones\b0 : Well I think Mendel for example had no interest at all in what the physical nature of the gene was, perhaps to him it didn't even have a physical nature. | | | Mendel's great strength was that he was really the first biologist to count anything. |
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http://www.angelfire.com/ego/inourtime/iotm85.rtf
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| | Steve Jones (biologist) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | This article about a biologist is a stub. | | | Steve Jones View from the lab: dinosaurs, academics and the case against ginger biscuits | | | Steve Jones presented In the Blood was a six-part TV series on human genetics first broadcast in 1996, see book of same name in bibliography |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Jones_(biologist)
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| | WGNTV.com Chicago's WB WGN CoverStory: Monk Parakeets |
| | "For this species their population size is doubling about every six years," says Steve Pruett-Jones, biologist at the University of Chicago. | | | Like the birdman of Hyde Park, University of Chicago biologist Dr. Steve Pruett-Jones and the birds go way back. | | | "They were one of the most heavily imported birds for the pet trade," Dr. Jones says. |
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http://wgntv.trb.com/news/local/eveningnews/wgntv-news-020905parakeet,0,6605673.story?coll=wgntv-evening-news-1
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| | FuturePundit: Human Natural Selection In Taiwan |
| | Steve Jones, a London biologist, thinks that natural selection is losing it's power to weed out "sickly people", because it is being replaced by good hygiene and vaccines. | | | Ronald Fisher, the British biologist, pointed out in 1930 that the genes for mental ability tend to move upward through the social classes but that fertility is higher in the lower social classes. | | | Moreover, Jones believes that sexual selection is also losing it's power to differentially sort human gene lines, given that there is now considerable travel, tourism and migration which is causing racial blending: |
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http://www.futurepundit.com/archives/001713.html
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| | Steve Jones (biologist) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Steve Jones (born March 24, 1944) is a professor of genetics at Galton laboratory of University College London. | | | Steve Jones presented In the Blood was a six-part TV series on human genetics first broadcast in 1996, see book of same name in bibliography | | | Jones was born in Aberystwyth, Wales, and has degrees from the University of Edinburgh and University of Chicago. |
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http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Jones_(biologist)
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| | Andrew Walker: Epistles of Straw: The true tragedy of creationism |
| | A COUPLE OF weeks ago, I took part with biologist Steve Jones in a live debate on BBC Radio 3's programme "Night Waves" on the subject of creationism. | | | But even if Radio 3 had started off with a bang, it's doubtful if Steve Jones and I would have really clashed on air, for the truth of the matter is that many Christian scientists and theologians have had to come to terms with the idea of evolution. | | | Steve and I expected him to kick off by vigorously putting the boot into evolution, but he failed to deliver, which left the poor presenter scrambling to get the debate back on track. |
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http://www.ship-of-fools.com/Columns/Walker/Walker1201.html
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| | Andrew Walker: Epistles of Straw: The true tragedy of creationism |
| | A COUPLE OF weeks ago, I took part with biologist Steve Jones in a live debate on BBC Radio 3's programme "Night Waves" on the subject of creationism. | | | But even if Radio 3 had started off with a bang, it's doubtful if Steve Jones and I would have really clashed on air, for the truth of the matter is that many Christian scientists and theologians have had to come to terms with the idea of evolution. | | | Steve and I expected him to kick off by vigorously putting the boot into evolution, but he failed to deliver, which left the poor presenter scrambling to get the debate back on track. |
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http://www.ship-of-fools.com/Columns/Walker/Walker1201.html
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| | \b\par \par Melvyn Bragg \b0 : So how did this reflect back into and restir the Darwin pot, Steve Jones?\par \par \b Steve Jones\b0 : Well I think Mendel for example had no interest at all in what the physical nature of the gene was, perhaps to him it didn't even have a physical nature. | | | Mendel's great strength was that he was really the first biologist to count anything. | | | He was just a pea breeder, who cares about peas?\par \par \b Melvyn Bragg \b0 : \b \b0 Richard Dawkins, the classical era of genetics is actually the early part of the 20th century, which shows what a very modern and young branch of knowledge it is in that sense. |
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http://www.angelfire.com/ego/inourtime/iotm85.rtf
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| | Interview with Steve Jones |
| | British biologist Steve Jones is renowned as both a geneticist and a best-selling author of popular science books. | | | Jones has become well known, not only for his science, but for his popular writing and broadcasting. | | | Most of them were rotten, but - as usual - there was one brilliant one who, fortunately, was a biologist. |
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http://sciencebase.com/Steve_Jones_Interview.html
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| | Darwin's Ghost: The Origin of Species Updated (Steve Jones) |
| | The author, Steve Jones, is a genetics professor at University College London, so he is well qualified for this project. | | | Jones takes adaptionist/genetically-determined evolution as the "truth" and he discards alternative views in a few sentences (in his view "punctuated equilibrium" theories have been rejected....I wonder what Gould would have to say about it...). | | | No doubt that the acknowledgement of Lewontin, a radical Harvard biologist, at the first page of the book was the one that fooled me. The book is a tribute to Dawkins' and Spencerian ideas of evolution, not the complex evolution that Lewontin, Gould, Eldrege and others write about. |
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http://www.interference.com/webstore/us/product/0345422775.htm
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| | Encyclopedia: March 14 |
| | Quincy Jones Quincy Delight Jones II (born March 14, 1933 in Chicago, Illinois) is an American record, television and film producer, musician, arranger and songwriter. | | | SpongeBob SquarePants is a popular animated television series created by marine biologist and animator Stephen Hillenburg. | | | Merlin Santana (March 14, 1976- November 9, 2002) was a Dominican-American television and film actor best known for his role as teenager Romeo on The Steve Harvey Show. |
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http://www.nationmaster.com/encyclopedia/March-14
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| | 3quarksdaily: Fiction informed by science |
| | By pure luck I met Steve Jones, an evolutionary biologist at University College London, on a science radio programme (we were actually talking about Marcel Proust and the concept of time in physics). | | | I later asked Steve if he could see any connection at all between snails and work on neurons in the brain, on memory: he said that snails had giant neurons which made them peculiarly apt for this kind of experiment. | | | I discovered that Steve was the world expert on what had (unfortunately for my verbal web) been renamed Cepaea hortensis and Cepaea nemoralis. |
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http://3quarksdaily.blogs.com/3quarksdaily/2005/03/fiction_informe.html
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| | New Scientist Breaking News - Stephen Jay Gould, biologist and writer, dies |
| | "He gave a salutary kick to the slumbering giant of evolution," says evolutionary biologist Steve Jones, of University College London. | | | Jones told New Scientist that Gould's contribution was as an agitator: "He will be remembered as a mosquito on the backside of biology and a master of popularisation." Dawkins adds, "His powerful voice will echo on for a long time." | | | Jones compares him to the explorer Christopher Columbus: "Columbus set out to find India, but found the New World. |
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http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn2306
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| | Quadrant Magazine |
| | It is not true that the whole of modern biology rests on Darwinism and not in the least bit likely that Jones or any other contemporary biologist has spent his whole life studying it. | | | This prompted a reply to the editor from Steve Jones, Professor of Genetics in University College London, which ran as follows: | | | Some biologists of the twenty-first century resemble the denizens of America’s Bible Belt; they think the evolutionary hypothesis is logically incompatible with creationism. |
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http://www.quadrant.org.au/php/archive_details_list.php?article_id=254
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| | News-Leader.com True Ozarks |
| | By using what’s known as an Index of Biotic Integrity, Drury University biologist Steve Jones, Southwest Missouri State University counterpart Dan Beckman and their students scored Bull Creek and Swan Creek on a variety of factors involving fish in each stream. | | | As for the study done for the Partnership, there were some unexpected surprises, Jones and Beckman said. | | | Bull Creek and Swan Creek are on the edge of losing their reputations as “jewels” among Ozarks streams because of water-quality concerns, researchers leading a two-year study of aquatic life in the streams said Friday. |
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http://springfield.news-leader.com/specialreports/stewardshipozarks/bull030803.html
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| | BBC News Sci/Tech Darwin gets a makeover |
| | Biologist Steve Jones is a brave man. First, he selects Darwin's Origin of Species as the single most important book to have been written this millennium, then he attempts to rewrite it. | | | In his updating, Professor Jones has set out to re-write the Origin of Species as if Darwin had written it in 1999 instead of 1859. | | | The title is a reference to a quote from Darwin that American black bears who swim with their mouths open to catch fish could, one day, evolve into whale-like creatures. |
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_443000/443006.stm
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| | EDUCAUSE REVIEW September/October 2004, Volume 39, Number 5 |
| | Steve Jones, "Let the Games Begin: Gaming Technology and Entertainment among College Students," Pew Internet & American Life Project, July 6, 2003, | | | When I was in college, I was fortunate enough to have a faculty advisor who was a biologist, and I had a one-on-one tutorial about tropical rainforest ecology. | | | Lets say I really want to know what its like to be a biologist of a certain sort. |
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http://www.educause.edu/pub/er/erm04/erm0454.asp
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| | The Observer International Is human evolution finally over? |
| | 'If you want to know what Utopia is like, just look around - this is it,' said Professor Steve Jones, of University College London, who is to present his argument at a Royal Society Edinburgh debate, 'Is Evolution Over?', next week. | | | That is the stark, controversial view of a group of biologists who believe a Western lifestyle now protects humanity from the forces that used to shape Homo sapiens. | | | For example, the biologist Christopher Wills, of the University of California, San Diego, argues that ideas are now driving our evolution. |
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http://observer.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,6903,644002,00.html
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| | ScienceDaily: Steve jones biologist |
| | We don't have an article called "Steve jones biologist" | | | In Guns, Germs, and Steel Jared Diamond presents the biologist's answer: geography, demography, and ecological happenstance. | | | Explaining what William McNeill called The Rise of the West has become the central problem in the study of global history. |
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http://www.sciencedaily.com/encyclopedia/steve_jones__biologist_
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| | New Scientist Premium- Review : Written in the genes - Review |
| | , written and presented by biologist Steve Jones. | | | I've heard Jones speak many times about his own genetic research, but unlike many scientists he is extremely funny and holds your attention. | | | It seems wholly appropriate that he should become a familiar face and voice on TV and radio, equally comfortable discussing genetics and evolution, or rubbing shoulders with the chattering classes as an art and film critic. |
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http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg15020315.300.html
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| | A Sample of Nonfiction Books Represented by Russell Galen |
| | Y: REVEALING THE MYSTERIES OF MALENESS, Dr. Steve Jones, Houghton Mifflin. | | | A biologist’s views on the scientific underpinnings of what it means to be a human male. | | | A biography of the famed evolutionary biologist and bestselling author. |
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http://www.scglit.com/russell-non.htm
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| | Gulf of Maine Council on the Marine Environment |
| | Steve Jones, Jackson Estuarine Laboratory, for developing a specialized lab at the Jackson Estuarine Lab to conduct microbial source tracking (MST), a sophisticated genetic analysis of bacteria found in polluted waters in order to identify the source species responsible for the pollution (2004). | | | Steve Hawboldt, in recognition of his dedication to environmental education and involvement in community stewardship initiatives in the Gulf of Maine (1997). | | | Sherman Bleakney, for his commitment and dedication to science for over 50 years as a distinguished zoologist and marine biologist, researcher, historian, and scientific writer; scientific reports and papers on shorebirds, fish, reptiles, amphibians, mollusks, crustaceans, sponges; and numerous textbooks. |
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http://www.gulfofmaine.org/council/awards.asp
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| | G4techTV - Feature - Of Snails and Sex |
| | This week's "Big Thinkers" guest, Jones is a biologist -- a malacologist, to be exact -- and he's spent much of his life staring at snails, slugs, and a slew of slow, slimy mollusks. | | | Steve Jones is fascinated with sex -- for the least titillating of reasons. | | | He's examined their shell markings and tracked their hermaphroditic mating habits, studying their evolution. |
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http://www.techtv.com/bigthinkers/features/story/0,23008,3360389,00.html
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| | News-Leader.com True Ozarks |
| | By using what’s known as an Index of Biotic Integrity, Drury University biologist Steve Jones, Southwest Missouri State University counterpart Dan Beckman and their students scored Bull Creek and Swan Creek on a variety of factors involving fish in each stream. | | | Bull Creek and Swan Creek are on the edge of losing their reputations as “jewels” among Ozarks streams because of water-quality concerns, researchers leading a two-year study of aquatic life in the streams said Friday. | | | Bull Creek’s mean score was around 70, Beckman said. |
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http://springfield.news-leader.com/specialreports/stewardshipozarks/bull030803.html
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| | Gene Expression: June 2003 Archives |
| | Comment from Razib : In Y: The Descent of Man the biologist Steve Jones asserts that of the tens of thousands of knights listed in The Doomsday Book (circa 1100) none has left a titled male descendent today. | | | Note that I'm primarily concerned with those smart enough to learn the material in the first place, not with those who're too dull to benefit from it at all. | | | Note that you have to take some of the tables with a grain of salt - there's no way India has one-fifteenth the crime rate than Japan, for example. |
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http://www.gnxp.com/MT2/archives/2003_06.html
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| | Penn State Outreach News |
| | Steve Jones, play-by-play announcer for Penn State football and host of WPSX-TV’s 15 Minutes, and Debbie Hoy, local news producer for WPSU-FM, conducted live interviews with student panelists both during and after the debate. | | | While a student, she spent summers as a scientific intern with the Pennsylvania Department of Conservation and Natural Resources’ Bureau of Topographic and Geologic Survey in Harrisburg and as a fisheries biologist aide with the Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission’s Bureau of Fisheries in Carlisle. | | | A postdebate analysis with Burwood Yost, director of the Center for Opinion Research at Millersville Univerity; Russ Eshleman, managing editor of capitolwire.com and senior lecturer in communications at Penn State; and host Katie O’Toole, producer and writer for Penn State Public Broadcasting, addressed the focus on young people and their issues. |
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http://www.outreach.psu.edu/news/magazine/Vol_5.1/inside.html
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| | The Unreasonable Man: A Biologist writes... |
| | Prof Steve Jones writes another wonderful article looking at how ICT copies nature... | | | Listed below are links to weblogs that reference A Biologist writes... | | | I put a stop to most of my spam a couple of years ago with a filter that picks up offending words (Viagra, teens, mortgage and all the others that never enter polite conversation) and blocks it. |
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http://www.unreasonableman.net/2004/08/a_biologist_wri.html
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| | Telegraph Connected View from the lab: setting the pace |
| | Steve Jones is professor of genetics at University College London | | | His own subject - evolution- became a haunt of mathematical biologists who constructed an edifice of austere beauty which, alas, was almost useless until we grubby toilers in the vineyard came up with enough ugly facts to populate it. | | | The world's greatest biologist joins the Science Page debate: "I have deeply regretted that I did not proceed far enough at least to understand something of the great leading principles of mathematics; for men thus endowed seem to have an extra sense. |
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http://www.arts.telegraph.co.uk/connected/main.jhtml?xml=/connected/2002/07/31/ecrlab31.xml&sSheet=/connected/2002/07/31/ixconnrite.html
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| | Mail on Sunday October 18th 1998 |
| | Like geneticist Steve Jones and evolutionary biologist Stephen Jay Gould, Dawkins is a great explainer, a man capable of demystifying the most complex spatial theories with comparative references to popular television, poetry, politics and sport. | | | For a scientist, Richard Dawkins has a remarkable way with language – not just words, but rhetoric, metaphor and imagery. |
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http://www.simonyi.ox.ac.uk/dawkins/WorldOfDawkins-archive/Media/UTR_mail_on_sunday.shtml
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