Evolutionary Applications and Evolution: Education and Outreach

By T. Ryan Gregory in Genomicron

May 2, 2008

In case you have missed them, two issues are now available for each of the new evolution journals:

Evolutionary Applications

Evolution: Education and Outreach

Both are accessible online free of charge, and I think they provide a nice complement to one another.

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