NCSE is pleased to announce that the latest issue of Reports of the National Center for Science Education is now available on-line. The issue — volume 35, number 3 — is a special book review issue, containing a round dozen reviews of books on various topics in biology. And for his regular People and Places column, Randy Moore discusses Frank White, the Arkansas governor who signed the Balanced Treatment for Creation-Science and Evolution-Science Act, which was overturned by the 1982 decision in McLean v. Arkansas.
As for the reviews, David Baum reviews Franklin M. Harold's In Search of Cell History, Daniel Fairbanks reviews Eugene E. Harris's Ancestors in Our Genome, Jonathan Marks reviews Henry Gee's The Accidental Species, Jeffrey McKee reviews Chip Walter's Last Ape Standing, Kevin Padian reviews The Tree of Life, edited by Pablo Vargas and Rafael Zadoya, Rafe Sagarin reviews Douglas J. Emlen's Animal Weapons: The Evolution of Battle, Pat Shipman reviews John Gurche's Shaping Humanity, Susan Spath reviews John Archibald's One Plus One Equals One, Corwin Sullivan reviews Niles Eldredge's Extinction and Evolution, Marshall D. Sundberg reviews Joseph E. Armstrong's How the Earth Turned Green, Erica Torrens reviews J. David Archibald's Aristotle's Ladder, Darwin's Tree, and Linda Wolfe reviews Marlene Zuk's Paleofantasy.
All of these articles, features, and reviews are freely available in PDF form from http://reports.ncse.com. Members of NCSE will shortly be receiving in the mail the print supplement to Reports 35:3, which, in addition to summaries of the on-line material, contains news from the membership, a regular column in which NCSE staffers offer personal reports on what they've been doing to defend the teaching of evolution, a regular column interviewing NCSE's favorite people, and more besides. (Not a member? Join today!)