Mason Posner teaches anatomy and physiology, marine and vertebrate biology at Ashland University in Ohio. He does research on the evolution and function of the vertebrate eye lens and has interests in undergraduate research and teaching technology. He leads a Biology capstone course on science communication.

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Darwin and the eye

One of the most interesting sections of Darwin’s On the Origin of Species may be his struggles with perceived perfection in nature.  In Chapter 6 Darwin confronts the organ of which William Paley would be most proud – the remarkable eye, and wonders how such a structure could have possibly evolved through his [...]

February 15th, 2009 | Tags: , | Category: Research | One comment

Facebook at your own risk

I pulled my head out of a grant proposal writing daze long enough this past week to notice a fellow professor having some trouble with their Facebook privacy settings.  Seems that a religion professor at Dartmouth thought it would be funny to point out the verbosity of some of her colleagues.  Even better, she worried [...]

February 9th, 2009 | Category: Random stuff, Teaching | 2 comments