ActionBioscience and New Frontiers in Biology Biology

ActionBioscience is a web site run by the non-profit American Institute of Biological Sciences devoted to promoting literacy in the biological sciences. The site has articles on a variety of topics, but probably of most interest to science fiction readers (and writers) are "issues in new frontiers."

Some of the essays and interviews sound like science fiction anyway:

• "Rewilding" North America by reintroducing Pleistocene-era animals
• The ethics of crossing species boundaries
• The Sixth Extinction: humans might be next

The style is fairly dry, but the articles are generally written in clear non-jargony language and a number of links are provided for further reading. It seems like a useful resource for furthering your biology education.

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