Have you ever wondered why people look the way they do? Why our hands and feet have five digits instead of six? Why we stand on two legs instead of four? It took 350 million years of evolution to produce the amazing machine we call the human body and in Your Inner Fish, a three-part series based on the best-selling book of the same name, author and evolutionary biologist Dr. Neil Shubin looks into the past to answer these and other questions.
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Science, Evolution, and Creationism, to help people who are interested in evolution better understand its underlying principles and how evolution is an integral component of scientific research and thinking.
In 2009 the National Academy of Sciences joined many other organizations in the international scientific community to celebrate the event archive.
In 2010, the National Academy of Sciences awarded its most prestigious award, the Public Welfare Medal, to Dr. Eugenie Scott, Director of the comments by Dr. Ralph Cicerone, President, National Academy of Sciences during the presentation of the Public Welfare Medal).
In 2011, the National Research Council’s Board on Life Sciences and the National Academy of Sciences organized a convocation to bring together people from the life sciences community to explore ways to infuse concepts of evolution into all areas of biology education. here.
In 2012 the National Research Council also released the report Next Generation Science Standards were published in April 2013.
Research about evolution also has served as the basis for technical reports and research conferences that have been hosted by the National Academy of Sciences during the past five years. They include:
Evolution Resources