Tree of Evolution
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| Motto | Conquer the Darkness with Science! |
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| Founders | Çağrı Mert Bakırcı, Babür Erdem, Güngör Budak |
| Type | Popular Science Brand |
| Legal status | Company |
| Headquarters |  USA Lubbock, Texas |
Official language | English, Turkish |
Administrative supervisor | Çağrı Mert Bakırcı |
| Ashlee Lane Bakırcı-Taylor, Eyüp Can Akman | |
| Website | evrimagaci.org, treeofevo.com |
Evrim Ağacı is the largest and most visited Turkish popular science organization, that aims to educate the Turkish public on a vast variety of sciences with a special focus on evolutionary biology and its applications.
Evrim Ağacı means "Tree of Evolution" in Turkish, it is a reference to the depiction of the evolutionary relationship of species arranged in a "tree" form. Evrim Ağacı, founded November 5, 2010 is the oldest, most reliable, and most visited popular science website of Turkey. Evrim Ağacı creates science content in a lot of formats, including popular science articles, educational videos, informational photos, and novel platforms like board games. This is all accomplished through our website, Facebook Page, Facebook Group, YouTube, Twitter, and Instagram, Evrim Ağacı reaches millions of people monthly in Turkey, Azerbeijan, Germany, Austria, USA, and Canada. One of the biggest goals of the organization is to become a respected science organization with its roots in Turkey to promote science in Turkey and in the international arena. As a vision, Evrim Ağacı hopes to improve the scientific understanding in and outside of Turkey.
Tree of Evolution (Turkish: Evrim Ağacı), is a brand founded by the "Biology and Genetics Society" at the Middle East Technical University (METU) with the leadership of Çağrı Mert Bakırcı on November 5, 2010.[1] Also many students, academics, lecturers and professors played an important role in the development stage of this social entrepreneurship. Today, it continues its journey in Lubbock, Texas as a popular science company that making multidimensional publications to Turkish-speaking people all over the world. In addition, evrimagaci.org is the biggest popular science platform in Turkey as a website user number.[2][3]
Tree of Evolution is supported by the European Society for Evolutionary Biology (ESEB), as a financially and academically.[4][5] ESEB also examined their website and publications by the evolutionary biology academics and confirmed that the contents have high quality.[4][6] As of February 23, 2018, it has been working as a "Tree of Evolution" brand and company in Texas, USA.
Works[edit]
Activities that organized by the Tree of Evolution includes seminars, conferences, courses and academic programs. Thousands of people have participated in an event called "Turkey Meets with Evolution" that organized in many different cities such as Ankara, Istanbul, Izmir, Bursa, and Eskişehir.
Further, Tree of Evolution organizes "METU Aykut Kence Evolution Conference"[7] that is Turkey's longest ongoing and the most participative evolutionary biology event. Many academics, students and citizens participate in this annual event. Leading persons in evolutionary biology such as Francisco J. Ayala, Douglas Futuyma, Jerry Coyne, Stephen Oppenheimer, Kenneth Miller, Eva Jablonka, Andrew Berry, John Gowlett, Octávio Mateus have been hosted by Tree of Evolution in Turkey.[8][9] Besides, Tree of Evolution attended, as a guest, "Free Thought and Secularism" Conference organized by the participation of Sean Faircloth from the Richard Dawkins Foundation.
See also[edit]
Journals and news about Tree of Evolution;
References[edit]
- ↑ "About the Tree of Evolution". Evrim Ağacı. June 18, 2018. Unknown parameter
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|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ 4.0 4.1 "Tree of Evolution Project Report, ESEB" (PDF). In This Report, the Events That Were Organized by the Tree of Evolution Project/Movement Will be Presented. April 16, 2012 – via European Society for Evolutionary Biology.
- ↑ "Tree of Evolution Movement as Accepted Proposal". The European Society for Evolutionary Biology (ESEB). March 2012. Unknown parameter
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|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ "14th Aykut Kence Evolution Conference". METU. Unknown parameter
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External links[edit]
Tree of Evolution Website Evrim Ağacı Website
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