June 10, 2005

They Are What They Teach

By SILLA BRUSH

List: More academics with apt names

Tulane University students who signed up for a course on natural selection and The Origin of Species may have thought that their instructor was carrying on a family tradition: "Darwin and Darwinism" is taught by Steven P. Darwin, a professor of ecology and evolutionary biology.

"I'm sure some students register thinking they'll get the story from the horse's mouth," says Mr. Darwin, who has

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