Category Archives: Evolution Education

Roberts Publishing releases an iPad version of their majors Evolution textbook

Posted on January 12, 2013 by Chris Jensen

iTunes “Evolution: Making Sense of Life” I don’t own an iPad so I won’t be playing with this anytime soon, but I am very curious about the impact of this first-of-its-kind majors Evolution textbook for tablet. I am not sure … Continue reading →

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Easy-IPD version 1.0 released!

Posted on May 27, 2011 by Chris Jensen

After a full semester of development, including a round of in-classroom testing with real live Pratt undergraduates, I am proud to announce the release of the Easy Iterated Prisoner’s Dilemma (Easy-IPD) interface, a free web-based teaching tool that allows students … Continue reading →

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Make Every Day Darwin Day, Minus the Darwin

Posted on February 12, 2011 by Chris Jensen

Today is the day widely celebrated as Darwin Day. Two hundred and two years ago, Charles Darwin was born, and many evolution enthusiasts hold rallies and teach-ins to celebrate this anniversary every year. And while my role as a college … Continue reading →

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Computer-Based Tools for Teaching about Robert Axelrod’s Prisoner’s Dilemma Tournaments

Posted on January 20, 2011 by Chris Jensen

In a recent posting I discussed the book The Evolution of Cooperation by Robert Axelrod [1, 2]. The book chronicles Axelrod’s work in the 1980’s to understand the dynamics of the Iterated Prisoner’s Dilemma (IPD), which is perhaps the most … Continue reading →

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The Tangled Bank: An Introduction to Evolution

Posted on October 3, 2010 by Chris Jensen

I am on the lookout for a new textbook for my non-majors Evolution course, so I was excited to check out Carl Zimmer’s new book “The Tangled Bank: An Introduction to Evolution”, published this year by Roberts and Company. For … Continue reading →

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Sourcing sources of selection

Posted on September 25, 2010 by Chris Jensen

One of the most difficult challenges that my non-major students face is gaining access to the scientific process. Although almost all of my students have been given some version of the “scientific method”, very few of them have any real … Continue reading →

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Teaching evolution and game theory, simultaneously

Posted on September 9, 2010 by Chris Jensen

I just started a new semester of The Evolution of Cooperation, a class that I taught for the first time in the Fall of 2008 and was shelved for a couple of years while I worked on developing other new … Continue reading →

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