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Table 2 Evo in the News articles retrieved by sample 9–12 concept searches

From: From Newsroom to Classroom

Concept: articles

Publication date

Depending on environmental conditions, inherited characteristics may be advantageous, neutral, or detrimental:

Another perspective on cancer

October 2007

Evolution from a virus’s view

December 2007

Ghosts of epidemics past

October 2008

Got lactase?

April 2007

Quick evolution leads to quiet crickets

December 2006

Sex, speciation, and fishy physics

Marcy 2009

Superbug, superfast evolution

April 2008

The amount of genetic variation within a population may affect the likelihood of survival of the population; the less the available diversity, the less likely the population will be able to survive environmental change:

Cheating cheetahs prosper

July 2007

Evolution down under

September 2008

Warming to evolution

July 2006

Evolution may occur as a result of genetic drift:

Evolution at the scene of the crime

March 2006

The similarity of DNA nucleotide sequences can be used to infer the degree of kinship between species:

Evolutionary evidence takes the stand

January 2007

The new shrew that is not

March 2008