By selecting Coupland, the Massey Lecture selection committee did intend to appeal to "a slightly younger demographic than previous Massey Lectures".
The community of Trinity undergraduates also help the effort by giving maths camp lectures, marking selection tests and (most importantly!) making tea.
I was recently passing through the Institute of Astronomy in Cambridge, where an advertised lecture on "Selection bias in dynamically measured super-massive black hole samples" got me humming the riff to Supermassive Black Hole.
During the closing Highlights Lecture, a selection of the best-rated abstracts was presented including diverse areas of nuclear medicine: physics and instrumentation, radiopharmacy, preclinical imaging, oncology (with a focus on the clinical application of newly developed tracers) and radionuclide therapy, cardiology and neurosciences.
During the 1860s, Wallace wrote papers and gave lectures defending natural selection.
The CINS was administered at the beginning and end of a 7-wk unit on evolution that included three lectures on natural selection.
Our fourth, fifth, and six lectures explored sexual selection, the evolution of complex traits, and the evolution of altruistic behavior, respectively.
First, after five lectures on natural selection, many of our students were unable to recognize that suicide was an unlikely adaptation.
The laboratory took place after the second week of the course, immediately after the course lecture on phylogeny and systematics, which follows lectures on natural selection, micro- and macroevolution, speciation, and Hardy Weinberg equilibrium.
There is hope that carefully crafted learning exercises will help students recognize and replace evolutionary misconceptions, and we suggest that incorporating examples of DNA sequences into lectures on natural selection may be part of the solution.
