Dear ECOLOG-L, Israel Journal of Ecology and Evolution salutes recent contributor =20 Professor Ada Yonath, of Israel=92s Weizmann Institute, on being chosen =20=
as one of only five recipients world-wide of the prestigious L=92Oreal-=20= UNESCO =93For Women in Science=94 Life=92s Work Prize. Yonath=92s article, =93On ribosome conservation and evolution=94 = (written =20 with I. Agmon and A. Bashan), appears in NEW HORIZONS IN EVOLUTIONARY =20= BIOLOGY, a 350-page compendium based on an international conference =20 by the same name and published as a double issue of the Israel =20 Journal of Ecology and Evolution. Professor Eviatar Nevo of the =20 University of Haifa=92s Institute of Evolution edited the compendium. Other representative articles in the collection include: =95 =93Cancer and evolution=94, by Walter F. Bodmer =95 =93On the origin of cells and viruses: A comparative=96genomic =20 perspective=94, by Eugene V. Koonin =95 =93Speciation in the new millennium: What=92s left to know?=94 by = Mohamed =20 A.F. Noor and Jerry A. Coyne =95 =93=91Evolution Canyon=92: A microcosm of Life=92s evolution = focusing on =20 adaptation and speciation=94, by Eviatar Nevo For details on this compendium, including full Table of Contents and =20 purchase information, and more about the Israel Journal of Ecology =20 and Evolution, please contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] Elcya Weiss [EMAIL PROTECTED] Publisher Israel Science Journals=