ENSI Co-Director Craig Nelson brings the two following articles and new book to our
attention. Both articles are excellent resources for ENSI teachers - be sure to check them out.

Darwin 200: News Special
In recognition of the bicentennial of Darwin's birthday, the British
science journal Nature offers news,
opinion, podcasts, events, the latest research and free educational
resources on line, to be updated throughout 2009. Go to
http://ealerts.nature.com/cgi-bin24/DM/y/eoyq0Spz4e0Hjv0CBu70E6

Recipes for life: How genes evolve
New information from research on how genes evolve: article by Michael Le
Page from the New Scientist magazine, Nov. 2008. "Most intriguing of all,
we can now see how genes - which are the recipes for making proteins, the
building blocks of life - arise in the first place. And the story is not
unfolding quite as expected." Read this article for new information to
update your textbooks and your teaching. Go to this 5-page article at:
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20026831.800-recipes-for-life-how-genes-evolve.html?full=true

Darwin's Sacred Cause
From "Zimmerman, Michael" <mzimmerm@butler.edu>
A new biography of Darwin: Darwin's Sacred Cause: How a Hatred of Slavery Shaped Darwin's Views on Human Evolution by Adrian Desmond and James Moore, two of the most well-respected Darwin scholars in the world. Soon to be published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, the book offers a fascinating picture of Darwin's views on slavery and race relations.

Zimmerman (Butler Univ.) organized and runs The Clergy Letter Project www.theclergyletterproject.org)