Re: [ECOLOG-L] looking for a freshman seminar book

2009-04-25 Thread Norm Leonard
You might consider Neil Shubin's *Your Inner Fish*. It is very well written and discusses his team's discovery of *Tiktaalik* to teach about the discovery process and scientific method. The book will also appeal to students with a wide range of interests because Shubin draws on multiple lines of

[ECOLOG-L] looking for a freshman seminar book

2009-04-24 Thread Bomar, Charles
So we are looking for a good read for next falls honors colloquium-something that deals with the discovery process in science. May people on campus have suggested the double-helix which would be fine, but I was hoping for something more recent to engage students on more recent discoveries

Re: [ECOLOG-L] looking for a freshman seminar book

2009-04-24 Thread Jane Shevtsov
I just read Paul Colinvaux's _Amazon Expeditions_ and it's excellent. Jane Shevtsov On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 3:31 PM, Bomar, Charles bom...@uwstout.edu wrote: So we are looking for  a good read for next falls  honors colloquium-something that deals with the discovery process in science. May