July 18, 2008
Cornell Nurtures Teaching Talent and Then Rewards It
In the late 1990s, Mariana F. Wolfner, a professor of developmental biology at Cornell University, was intrigued by the new field of "evo devo" — evolutionary-development biology — and wanted to teach a course in it.
A colleague, the evolutionary biologist Amy R. McCune, was also interested in the field, which studies organisms' development in order to gain insight into their evolution.
The problem? Ms. Wolfner and Ms. McCune weren't experts in evo devo.
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