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Date March 11, 2013
Tagged , __edited , __repeat , genetics
Primate Phylogenetics Challenge Darwin’s Tree of Life
Casey Luskin
March 11, 2013
Guests Casey Luskin
Duration 00:17:43
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On this episode of ID the Future , Casey Luskin reports on a study showing a very tangled phylogenetic tree for primates. Listen in as Luskin shows how researchers trying to create a primate phylogenetic tree are finding it isn’t as easy as they’d hoped.
Casey Luskin is an attorney with graduate degrees in science and law, giving him expertise in both the scientific and legal dimensions of the debate over evolution. He earned his B.S. and M.S. in Earth Sciences from the University of California, San Diego, where he studied evolution extensively at both the graduate and undergraduate levels. His law degree is from the University of San Diego, where he focused his studies on First Amendment law, education law, and environmental law. He conducted geological research at Scripps Institution for Oceanography (1997-2002).
