I was asked to support this project, and I’m doing so with great pleasure.
The Evolution Foundation was established in place of the Dynasty Foundation and in many ways continues its educational outreach projects. It was created in November 2015 by scientists, entrepreneurs, and science communicators. They help publish books, have already begun organizing popular science lectures and translating talks by foreign scientists, and this year they plan to assist in preparing memorandums for the Commission for Combating Pseudoscience and the Falsification of Scientific Research under the Presidium of the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS). In June–July 2016, they will also bring leading embryology researchers to Russia to run a school here.
To avoid being shut down like Dynasty, Evolution decided to forgo major sponsors and raise money online through Planeta.ru.
It’s a very worthwhile cause; I’ll be supporting them myself, and I urge you to do the same.
Full details about the foundation’s work are here. The website’s main page, with the support the project button, is here. The project page on Planeta.ru is here.
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