Half an hour with Joan Roughgarden

[Shana A]

Half an hour with Joan Roughgarden

Feb 12th, 2011 by christineburns

http://christineburns.podbean.com/2011/02/12/half-an-hour-with-joan-roughgarden/

Professor Joan Roughgarden is no ordinary biologist - and no ordinary trans woman either - though there are quite a few high academic achievers within the world wide community of gender variant, transgender and transsexual people.

Joan is perhaps best known for her 2004 book "Evolution's Rainbow" - an academic work, written in a language accessible to the public. In it she challenges Darwin's theory of Sexual Selection.

Her subsequent book, "Evolution and Christian Faith: Reflections of an Evolutionary Biologist", published in 2006, showed that her willingness to take on controversial subjects was, if anything, stronger and more confident ... despite the inevitable way in which her critics responded to the first.

[gennee]

I read Joan's book Evolution's Rainbow. It is a very enlightening book and one that's a staple in my personal library.

Gennee