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 science communication capstone courses that teaches Biology majors how to develop science blogs

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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

Darwin 150 years later

My friend Tom Hayden has a great new piece in Smithsonian magazine on how Charles Darwin’s work remains relevant 150 years after the publication of The Origin.  It includes a nice brief history of Darwin’s early years, the development of his thinking on common descent and natural selection, and most interestingly how new [...]

January 27th, 2009 | Tags: | Category: Random stuff | One comment