"Experimental and Investigative Laboratory Courses in Evolutionary Biology"

在过去的二十年里，进化生物学已经发展成为一门充满活力的研究性科学，与传染病和生物技术的起源等社会问题有着密切的联系。进化生物学作为一门科学学科的新兴作用与限制高中进化论教学的持续努力，或质疑进化思想作为科学的有效领域形成鲜明对比。虽然现在高中和大学的进化生物学教学都在努力摆脱这种审查和忽视，但进化论在很大程度上仍然是作为一门理论的、辩证的学科来教授的，往往似乎只对理论思想和广泛的概念景观产生影响。它很少被当作一门与应用相关的实验、分析科学来教授，就像生理学或分子生物学一样。我们建议从两个方面来纠正这种情况。首先，我们将在进化生物学中建立一个实验研究性实验室，它可以作为“旗舰”，说明如何在大学水平上教授进化作为一门与社会相关的实验和研究性科学。我们还说明了如何以最少的资源和使用广泛的材料来进行这样的调查课程。其次，认识到课程和学院在他们的能力或意愿方面会有所不同，他们致力于这样一个专注的实验课程，我们也将通过另外开发一个网站，通过互联网分发进化生物学的实验练习，来刺激教学进化作为一门实践科学。目前，这样的资源是不可用的，我们只知道一本手册教进化作为一个实验课程。因此，我们将收集、整理和分发可用于丰富讨论部分和实验课的材料。

Over the past twenty years, evolutionary biology has developed in to a vibrant, investigative science with a potent relevance to societal issues such as origins of infectious disease and biotechnology. The emerging role of evolutionary biology as a scientific discipline is in stark contrast to the continuing efforts to limit teaching evolution in high-schools, or to question evolutionary ideas as a valid province of science. While the teaching of evolutionary biology at both high school and college levels is now struggling to emerge from such censoring and neglect, evolution is still largely taught as a theoretical, dialectical discipline that often seems only to impact on theoretical ideas and broad conceptual landscapes. Rarely is it taught as an experimental, analytical science of applied relevance on a par with, say, physiology or molecular biology. We propose to rectify this situation in two ways. First, we will develop an experimental investigative laboratory in evolutionary biology that can serve as a "flagship" for illustrating how evolution can be taught at the college level as an experimental and investigative science that is societally relevant. We also illustrate how such an investigative course could be run with minimal resources and using a wide range of possible materials. Second, recognizing that curricula and colleges will vary in terms of their ability or desire to commit to such a focused laboratory course, we will also stimulate the teaching evolution as a hands-on science by additionally developing a web-site for distribution via the internet of laboratory exercises in evolutionary biology. Currently, such a resource is not available, and we only know of one manual on teaching evolution as a laboratory course. We will therefore gather, collate, and distribute materials that can be used to enrich discussion sections and laboratory classes.