{"id":130,"date":"2018-01-10T12:55:10","date_gmt":"2018-01-10T17:55:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/andrewsimonslab\/?page_id=130"},"modified":"2026-10-21T10:26:59","modified_gmt":"2026-10-21T14:26:59","slug":"media-outreach","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/andrewsimonslab\/media-outreach\/","title":{"rendered":"Media\/Outreach"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] pb-5 after:w-10 text-cu-black-700 not-prose\">\n                        Media\/Outreach\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n        \n    <div class=\"grid gap-6 mx-auto my-6 cu-column md:gap-10 md:grid-cols-2 md:my-10 first:mt-0\">\n        \n<div class=\"cu-column-content\">\n    \n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"240\" height=\"312\" src=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/andrewsimonslab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/286\/cover-ajb-2000-240x312.gif\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-139\" style=\"width:300px\" role=\"none\" srcset=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/andrewsimonslab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/286\/cover-ajb-2000-240x312.gif 240w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/andrewsimonslab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/286\/cover-ajb-2000-160x208.gif 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/andrewsimonslab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/286\/andrew.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-306\" style=\"width:300px\" role=\"none\" srcset=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/andrewsimonslab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/286\/andrew.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/andrewsimonslab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/286\/andrew-160x120.jpeg 160w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/andrewsimonslab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/286\/andrew-240x180.jpeg 240w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/andrewsimonslab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/286\/andrew-768x576.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/andrewsimonslab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/286\/andrew-400x300.jpeg 400w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/andrewsimonslab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/286\/andrew-800x600.jpeg 800w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/andrewsimonslab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/286\/andrew-360x270.jpeg 360w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n<div class=\"cu-column-content\">\n    \n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/canada\/ottawa\/flaws-of-nature-carleton-professor-1.4035682\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">CBC News: The Flaws of Nature<\/a>\u2014Carleton Prof finds evolutionary clues in nature\u2019s bloopers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/science\/articles\/2011\/03\/16\/3164700.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">ABC Science: &#8220;Bet hedging key to natural selection&#8221;<\/a> highlights Simons, A.M. 2011. Modes of response to environmental change and the elusive empirical evidence for bet hedging. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 278:1601-1609.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If you wanted to know why men have nipples, would you ask a plant evolutionary biologist? Andrew&#8217;s answers to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scientificamerican.com\/article.cfm?id=why-do-men-have-nipples\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Scientific American<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/quirks\/media\/2006-2007\/mp3\/qq-2006-10-21b.mp3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Quirks &amp; Quarks<\/a> (CBC audio trophy winner).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.f1000biology.com\/article\/id\/1162817\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Faculty of 1000 &#8220;Must Read&#8221; evaluation of<\/a> Simons, A.M. 2009. Fluctuating natural selection accounts for the evolution of diversification bet hedging. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 276:1987-1992.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.confersense.ca\/Evolution2012\/index.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Evolution 2012:<\/a> 1st Joint Congress on Evolutionary Biology (Co-organizer with Howard Rundle) brought together 2400 researchers from five leading evolution and ecology societies (SSE, ASN, SSB, ESEB, CSEE), and garnered extensive media coverage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=YXli6sXzjN0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Watch the 2009 Darwin Year Discovery lecture,<\/a> Jointly presented by Andrew Simons and Charles Goodnight.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/mg19826562.100-vestigial-organs-remnants-of-evolution.html?full=true\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">New Scientist interview<\/a> &#8220;Vestigial organs: Remnants of evolution.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n    <\/div>\n\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_cu_dining_location_slug":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"cu_page_type":[],"class_list":["post-130","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/andrewsimonslab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/130","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/andrewsimonslab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/andrewsimonslab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/andrewsimonslab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/andrewsimonslab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=130"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/andrewsimonslab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/130\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":511,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/andrewsimonslab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/130\/revisions\/511"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/andrewsimonslab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"cu_page_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/andrewsimonslab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_page_type?post=130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}