User talk:Khamar/Draft article on Jerry Coyne

All these references and papers need to be reworked and properly cited in this page, http://pondside.uchicago.edu/ecol-evol/people/coyne.html

Publisher
http://www.sinauer.com/speciation.html

Book Reviews: Speciation
http://icb.oxfordjournals.org/content/44/5/400.full

Recent Interviews
Age of Discovery Podcast: Episode 7 Jerry Coyne

Jerry published an article on evolution for the Society for study of Evolution. Evolution should be taught because it is scientifically true. When teaching science you should stay away from religion.

"Not everybody feels that science and religion are compatible"

"The only religion I mention is when I talk about why evolution is true and creationism is wrong." "In my view you teach science as science is best received by the community"

Scientific creationism began in the early 80s. Jerry decided to teach both evolution-ism and creationism in a class. On one day he would teach evolution and the next class he would teach creationism. He taught both subjects with conviction and then had a classroom discussion. He found that some students that started as creationist became evolutionist.

In a 1996 review of Darwins Evolution, Coyne wrote his first large New Republic article on Pandas and People (a review of Intelligent Design book) which started a long history of writing on evolution and creationism.

Scientist must realize that information becomes refined. Coynes book on Speciation presents techniques that are now out of date. The subjects were expanded and have advanced with modern techniques, which may have been advanced by the earlier work. Speciation (book) is the work Coyne is most proud of. The contribution of this book as influenced the nature and direction of research in the field.

Popular writing and speaking is an immense challenger. Coyne plans to retire in 2015. Coyne expects the challenge of writing will continue for the remainder of his life. Dawkins is the model to emulate in this regard.

Coyne started with an intent to study marine biology. Coyne never had the chance to become a marine biologist. Before Bruce Grants lab (2nd year of college), Dr. Jack (Garnet R.) Brooks, an evolutionary biologist who worked with reptiles was an enthusiastic evolutionist. He was an "Indiana Jones" type guy. They looked at crossing red-eye flys with white-eye flys to examine the mutation. Mendelian genetics were known well enough to perform this work. Crossing the first generation of flys resulted in four colors of eyes out of two. It was clear that two genes must be present in this change. Test confirmed that two genes were present and must be on the same chromosome. Coyne gave them improper names, but he was impressed by the work and discovery process. Bruce was interested in speciation, and Coyne could apply the tools of evolutionary Biology to solve these questions.

Coyne dropped out of school later when he was drafted as a conscious objector. He was out of school for 13 months during the process, which was finally ended after legal problems with the basis of his draft were discovered. Although accepted to Univ. of Chicago, Coyne decided to attend Rockerfeller Univ. After the draft problems ended, Coyne went to Univ. Chicago with an NSF pre-doc fellowship. Coyne flew to Harvard at introduced himself to Ed Wilson with the delimma of working with Dick Lewington but he was moving to Harvard and Coyne needed to obtain acceptance. Wilson arranged interviews and put him in the basement with a typewriter and a four page application. He cut himself on the typewriter and messed up his application. In the end he was accepted. If Wilson had not been present and became such an advocate for Coyne the story would have been much different. Later there was tension between Wilson and Blomington. Coyne kept his friendship with both. Coyne stayed out of the political relationships, and focused on Biology and Genetics instead.

Gould taught an advanced evolution class. Coyne rembers that "Dick" sang a snatch of opera. The two professors began singing opera in contest during the class. "It was fun because those guys were really smart." Gould called Coyne a "high bound gradualist[sic]". When it became clear to him that people did not believe in his theory of evolution, he became angry. "He was not a nice human being." Coyne has he books on the shelf and will turn to them occasionally. "You have to admire him for being smart and writing well."

Dubchanski did not place his name on all of his papers. He would place his technicians names on his work. Tim and Dick learned a culture of doing this and Coyne continues the tradition of "not bullying your way into gratuitous publication." "You are not really a scientist if you sit in your office and tell other people what to do." Frequently, scientist get their names on papers when they have very little work involved. The most famous person often gets credit for the research without doing much. Coyne did not suffer from this because he did his own research in the lab. Interaction with students at the bench is always better than in the office. "My output is not huge... 115 papers". 100 papers was his goal. Coyne was never without funding for his work.

Papers and grants are needed to advance research. Teaching should matter more. There is no real imputes to be a good teacher at research school. If you are pulling in grants and writing papers; this is over-important.

Coyne has a section of his CV for popular writing but nobody recognizes blogging as professional contribution. "I do not feel like I have been unfairly passed over." I write between 6-8am; before working hours start. [Blogging] has become a common way for scientist to communicate.

Q: Why study evolution? Why would the average person study evolution? A: I have changed my mind over time about the practical benefit. I still feel the main benefit to the average person is for two reasons. 1. it is how we got here. The bible theory of origin is a myth. The process of evolution is an amazing story. Darwin summarized the tangled bank of amazing diversity of life. It is an astounding thing. You get the same benefit as learning about the big bang, black holes, and cosmology. We want to learn about it because it is like art; but it is real and it is true. Quantum entanglement, and black holes are astounding. Evolution is like an amazing book of true stories. Richard Dawkins writes about the "appetite for wonder". Please should study evolution because it is like a big steak unlike the bible story which is like cotton candy. We are like a dog sniffing endlessly at a series of rat holes. Some of the holes have rats in them. The pay is ok but anyone that can get a job at the Univ. of Chicago could have been a surgeon and made (more money.) Feynman comments about "the pleasure of finding things out." You have to share these things; which is the pleasure of being a scientist.

Coyne on Rock Music
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jerry-a-coyne/

Additional References
http://news.uchicago.edu/profile/jerry-coyne

Nature Publications
updated in article

Science Publications
Science Pubs

On Punctuated Equilibria Niles Eldredge and Stephen Jay Gould Response from Jerry A. Coyne and Brian Charlesworth Science 18 April 1997: 337-341. [DOI:10.1126/science.276.5311.337c] http://www.sciencemag.org/content/276/5311/337.4.full?sid=68794a6e-3c11-41b1-a278-67c59262333c

Toujours Gaia JERRY COYNE Science 14 June 1991: 1472-1474. [DOI:10.1126/science.252.5012.1472-a] http://www.sciencemag.org/content/252/5012/1472.2.full.pdf?sid=e612cfa0-8584-4206-8773-370d875b9c54

Speciation in Action Jerry Coyne Science 3 May 1996: 700-701. [DOI:10.1126/science.272.5262.700] http://www.sciencemag.org/content/272/5262/700.full.pdf?sid=e612cfa0-8584-4206-8773-370d875b9c54

Dobzhansky Revisited Jerry A. Coyne Science 18 August 1995: 991-992. [DOI:10.1126/science.269.5226.991] http://www.sciencemag.org/content/269/5226/991.full.pdf?sid=e612cfa0-8584-4206-8773-370d875b9c54

Ecological Adaptation During Incipient Speciation Revealed by Precise Gene Replacement Anthony J. Greenberg, Jennifer R. Moran, Jerry A. Coyne, and Chung-I Wu Science 5 December 2003: 1754-1757. [DOI:10.1126/science.1090432] http://www.sciencemag.org/content/302/5651/1754.full.pdf?sid=e612cfa0-8584-4206-8773-370d875b9c54

Selling Science Jerry Coyne Science 7 August 2009: 678-679. [DOI:10.1126/science.1179131] http://www.sciencemag.org/content/325/5941/678.full.pdf?sid=e612cfa0-8584-4206-8773-370d875b9c54

Museums' Role: Increasing Knowledge Gregory C. Mayer, Jerry A. Coyne, Jonathan B. Losos, Johannes Foufopoulos, Neil Shubin, Douglas J. Futuyma, Benjamin C. Campbell, and Scott V. Edwards Science 8 March 2013: 1148-1149. [DOI:10.1126/science.339.6124.1148-b] http://www.sciencemag.org/content/339/6124/1148.2.full.pdf?sid=e612cfa0-8584-4206-8773-370d875b9c54

Ecological Adaptation During Incipient Speciation Revealed by Precise Gene Replacement Anthony J. Greenberg, Jennifer R. Moran, Jerry A. Coyne, and Chung-I Wu Science 5 December 2003: 1754-1757. [DOI:10.1126/science.1090432] http://www.sciencemag.org/content/302/5651/1754.full.pdf?sid=68794a6e-3c11-41b1-a278-67c59262333c

Selling Science Jerry Coyne Science 7 August 2009: 678-679. [DOI:10.1126/science.1179131] http://www.sciencemag.org/content/325/5941/678.full.pdf?sid=68794a6e-3c11-41b1-a278-67c59262333c

Museums' Role: Increasing Knowledge Gregory C. Mayer, Jerry A. Coyne, Jonathan B. Losos, Johannes Foufopoulos, Neil Shubin, Douglas J. Futuyma, Benjamin C. Campbell, and Scott V. Edwards Science 8 March 2013: 1148-1149. [DOI:10.1126/science.339.6124.1148-b] http://www.sciencemag.org/content/339/6124/1148.2.full.pdf?sid=68794a6e-3c11-41b1-a278-67c59262333c

Mechanisms of Punctuated Evolution J. A. Coyne, B. Charlesworth, S. F. Elena, V. S. Cooper, and R. E. Lenski Science 6 December 1996: 1748-1750. [DOI:10.1126/science.274.5293.1748] http://www.sciencemag.org/content/274/5293/1748.full.pdf?sid=68794a6e-3c11-41b1-a278-67c59262333c

Examining Evidence of Reproductive Isolation in Sockeye Salmon Daniel J. Howard, Jeremy L. Marshall, W. Evan Braswell, and Jerry A. Coyne Response from Andrew P. Hendry, John K. Wenburg, Paul Bentzen, Eric Volk, and Thomas P. Quinn Science 9 March 2001: 1853. [DOI:10.1126/science.291.5510.1853a] http://www.sciencemag.org/content/291/5510/1853.full.pdf?sid=68794a6e-3c11-41b1-a278-67c59262333c

Genetics of a pheromonal difference contributing to reproductive isolation in Drosophila JA Coyne, AP Crittenden, and K Mah Science 2 September 1994: 1461-1464. [DOI:10.1126/science.8073292] http://www.sciencemag.org/content/265/5177/1461.full.pdf?sid=68794a6e-3c11-41b1-a278-67c59262333c

A Test of the Snowball Theory for the Rate of Evolution of Hybrid Incompatibilities Daniel R. Matute, Ian A. Butler, David A. Turissini, and Jerry A. Coyne Science 17 September 2010: 1518-1521. [DOI:10.1126/science.1193440] http://www.sciencemag.org/content/329/5998/1518.full.pdf?sid=68794a6e-3c11-41b1-a278-67c59262333c

Response to Comment on “A Test of the Snowball Theory for the Rate of Evolution of Hybrid Incompatibilities” Daniel R. Matute, David A. Turissini, and Jerry A. Coyne Science 16 September 2011: 1576. [DOI:10.1126/science.1203149] http://www.sciencemag.org/content/333/6049/1576.3.full.pdf?sid=68794a6e-3c11-41b1-a278-67c59262333c

Comment on "Gene Regulatory Networks and the Evolution of Animal Body Plans" Jerry A. Coyne Science 11 August 2006: 761. [DOI:10.1126/science.1126454] http://www.sciencemag.org/content/313/5788/761.2.full.pdf?sid=68794a6e-3c11-41b1-a278-67c59262333c

Ernst Mayr (1904-2005) Jerry A. Coyne Science 25 February 2005: 1212-1213. [DOI:10.1126/science.1110718] http://www.sciencemag.org/content/307/5713/1212.full.pdf?sid=68794a6e-3c11-41b1-a278-67c59262333c

Kyle(talk) 18:25, 3 February 2014 (UTC)