© William C. Ratcliff 2013
William Ratcliff
(Assistant Professor at Georgia Tech) led the team that created these labs. They would not exist without the
amazing work of Tami Limberg (Biology instructor at Great River High School) and Nicholas Beerman (Biology instructor at
MacDowell Montessory High School). University of Minnesota teaching professor Sehoya Cotner played a critical role
constructing and implementing the first lab, as well as getting it written up for The American Biology Teacher. These labs also
would not exist without the encouragement and support of Ratcliff’s postdoctoral advisor Michael Travisano, and have been
improved through discussions with R. Ford Denison, Mark Borrello, Jennifer Pentz, Matthew Herron, Sam Westreich and Allison
Raney.
We are especially grateful to the Society for the Study of Evolution for supporting this work through the
2013 Thomas Henry
Huxley Award for scientific outreach
(to Will Ratcliff), and the
National Science Foundation
for funding (via grant DEB-
1315147).
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