To defend evolution against misguided attacks, we need to consider how evolutionary biology is perceived by outsiders.
But more important, we should seriously consider making evolutionary biology a basic science for medicine, or making its core principles compulsory in secondary education.
The scope of articles to be considered include evolutionary biology, biophysics, genetics, genomics, proteomics, molecular biology, cell biology, biochemistry, endocrinology, immunology, physiology, pharmacology, neuroscience, and psychology.
Related fields often considered part of evolutionary biology are phylogenetics, systematics, and taxonomy.
Before discussing what they have to say, it is worth taking a look at their context by considering the state of evolutionary biology today.
Even students who reject evolution are often willing to consider cases in which evolutionary biology contributes to, or undermines, biomedical interventions.
Scientists across disciplines consider the principles of evolutionary biology to be as fundamental to our understanding of natural processes as the principle of gravity.
At one extreme, Michael Ghiselin and David Hull have argued that this causal/historical structure of species provides grounds, at least within evolutionary biology, for considering species to be individuals.[15] Organisms are not members of a class or set, but 'parts' of a phylogenetic unit.
Consider the following example from evolutionary biology mentioned in Lyon & Colyvan 2007.
However, selection among groups has come to be considered an important force in evolutionary biology (Wade 1985; Szathmáry and Demeter 1987; Keller 1999; Okasha 2006; Traulsen and Nowak 2006).
If you're a History/English person, consider taking a class in evolutionary biology.
