New Chinese Center Marks a Coming of Age for Field

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Tokyo―Shi Suhua, a botanist at Sun Yat-sen University in southern China, hit an intellectual wall as she was exploring a new area: mangrove evolution. She felt that she was over her head in population genetics and needed help. Then she learned about a workshop on the topic, taught by University of Chicago evolutionary geneticist Chung-I Wu, at the Kunming Institute of Zoology, more than 1000 kilometers away in Yunnan Province. The short course she attended in the summer of 2002 "opened a window on another world," she says.