James Coors

• Located in Madison, WI
• Professor Emeritus, Department of Agronomy, University of Wisconsin - Madison
• Member of the UW Plant Breeding and Genetics program since 1983
• Professor of selection theory, quantitative/population genetics, evolutionary biology, and bioethics
• Member of the Board of Directors for the Freedom From Religion Foundation.

Jim Coors received his Doctorate in Plant Breeding and Biometry at Cornell University. He's developed and released novel corn germplasm as part of research program that involves studies of long-term selection and the domestication of corn. Jim has served in a number of professional organizations including the Board of Directors for the Crop Science Society of America (President in 2005) and the American Society of Agronomy. He is a lifetime member and serves on Board of Directors of the Freedom From Religion Foundation.

Jim greatly enjoys talking about selection, both natural and artificial, and its role in evolutionary biology. Selection is, perhaps, the least understood and most abused topic by creationists, and Jim speaks to the effectiveness of selection to counter the nonsensical and anti-evolutionary concepts put forth by the Discovery Institute and others.

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