Vol. 39, No.3, July 2010
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Lone Star Historians of Science
Bruce Hunt, 28 April 2010
From left to right: Tom Williams, Bruce Hunt, Frank Benn, Ludy Benjamin, Cyrus Mody, Steve Kirkpatrick, Victoria Sharpe, and Anthony Stranges. Not pictured: Adam Jones, Gül Russell, and Ian Russell.
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The Lone Star History of Science Group held its twenty-third annual meeting on 26 March 2010 at Texas A&M University in College Station, Texas. The gathering was hosted by Professor Anthony Stranges of the A&M History Department, with help from Professor Ludy Benjamin of the Psychology Department.
The speaker this year was Professor Adam Jones of the Texas A&M Biology Department. Following up on the topic of a paper he published last year in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Jones spoke on “Mate Choice and Sexual Selection: What Have We Learned Since Darwin?” Drawing on Charles Darwin’s discussions of sexual selection in both The Origin of Species and The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex, Jones addressed the subsequent history of ideas about sexual selection and its role in evolution, and discussed its relevance to his own recent work on the formation of species in seahorses and pipefish, in which the male carries the fertilized eggs until they hatch, thus reversing the direction of many of the usual factors in mate choice. After an interesting discussion, the group went off to a local Italian restaurant for dinner and more conversation.
Each spring, the Lone Star Group draws together historians of science, technology, and medicine from around Texas to discuss their shared interests and enjoy a friendly dinner. Its constitution, adopted over dinner in an Austin restaurant in 1988, provides that there shall be “no officers, no by-laws, and no dues,” and the group remains resolutely informal. The next Lone Star meeting will be held at the University of Texas at Austin in March or April 2011. Anyone interested in being added to the group’s mailing list should contact Professor Bruce J. Hunt of the University of Texas History Department at bjhunt@mail.utexas.edu.