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Calling all artists! EvoS will soon be featuring rotating logos. Get to the drawing boards and have your logo featured!

EvoS Members are popping up all over the place! Please read more about them in recent news stories.

What's New in the EvoS Consortium

If you are submitting a manuscript for the special EvoS Consortium issue of Evolution: Education and Outreach, please see the call for proposals for important deadlines. (July 2010)

EvoS Journal is now on Twitter! (June 2010)

The latest version of the EvoS Illuminate newsletter is now available! (May 2010)

We now have links to the new streaming videos of the Fall 2009 EvoS Seminar series at Binghamton University. (February 2010)

Congratulations to Palomar College for receiving an EvoS Consortium Grant, made possible by the Expanding Evolutionary Studies in American Higher Education grant from the National Science Foundation (#0817337). (Fall 2009)

EvoS Consortium Overview

The Evolutionary Studies (EvoS) Consortium is designed to facilitate the development and implementation of Evolutionary Studies Programs at colleges and universities across the United States. An Evolutionary Studies Program introduces students from all majors to evolutionary theory early in their academic careers, emphasizes human-related subjects in addition to biological, promotes the continuation of evolutionary training throughout the undergraduate education, and promotes faculty training and collaborative research related to evolution.

The EvoS Consortium is a website that provides the tools and a community space for evolutionary training in institutions of higher education. The Consortium website (affiliated with EvoS Journal: The Journal of the Evolutionary Studies Consortium) is a space for both faculty and undergraduate members of Evolutionary Studies Programs, as well as those interested in starting a program.

A major goal of the Consortium is growth – we hope to expand the consortium such that EvoS programs replicate widely. As such, we openly welcome other institutions to join. Steps associated with starting an EvoS program and joining the Consortium are described in the pages included in the Membership navigation button to the left.

Evolutionary Tidbit of the Month

Ever wonder what pigs looked like prior to domestication? Using genetic and archaelogical data, including DNA strands from 1500 currently domesticated and 18 ancient pig species, researchers have found that Chinese pigs are closely related to the first breed to be domesticated in the area. This finding leads to predictions about the spread of agriculture in East Asia. Check out a picture at Science Daily, and for the original article, see the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (PNAS). [Patterns of East Asian pig domenstication, migration, and turnover revealed by modern and ancient DNA by G. Larson, R. Lie, X. Zhao, J. Yuan, D. Fuller, L. Barton, K. Dobney, Q. Fan, Z. Gu, X. Liu, Y. Luo, P. Lv, L. Andersson, and N. Li].