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General Announcement
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Published on February 12, AS 0020 (2020 AD)

iDarwin: Quixotic idea?
Saitou Naruya
Population Genetics Laboratory
National Institute of Genetics
1111 Yata, Mishima, 411-8540, Japanemail: saitounr@nig.ac.jp
Charles Robert Darwin was born on February 12th, 1809 A.D (ref. 1). This new journal, iDarwin,
was named with our great respect after him. Incidentally, Abraham Lincoln, 16th President of UnitedStates of America, was born on that same day (ref. 2). We therefore would like to apply his famous
triplet during his address at Gettysburg (ref. 3) for this new journal:
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Volume 0iDarwin is journalof scientists,by scientists andfor scientists.
We scientists own iDarwin, and we scientists operate iDarwin, and iDarwin is for scientists whostudy any facet of evolutionary study. This journal does not belong to publishing company nor tosociety. We are independent.
iDarwin welcome many types of your work, including original investigation, review article,
book review, database review, software review, journal review, conference report, conferenceannouncement, general announcement, proposal, and opinion. For example, this article is “generalannoucement”. Please indicate type of your work in Submitter Information File, downloadable fromiDarwin website. Unless your submitting le is extraordinarily large, work of any le size iswelcome. When you submit your work to iDarwin, only two les are necessary: Submitter
Information File and your work le. If submitted manuscript was original investigation, it will bepeer-reviewed. Your submission under other categories may not be reviewed, especially if they areinvited contribution.
Scope of iDarwin is very broad. As its name iDarwin implies, this journal is for any kind ofevolutionary study; molecular or non-molecular, human or non-human, life or non-life, cultural or
non-cultural, wild or domesticated. In any case, everything is history (Saitou, 2013, 2018), andhistory creates evolution.

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Language used in iDarwin is English for scientists, that is slightly different from commonEnglish. Celsius is used for temperature, not Fahrenheit, and metric system is used for scales. Do notuse inch, foot, yard, pound, etc. Either British or American English spelling, such as neighbour/neighbor, is acceptable. We try to keep distance from any religion. In this sense, we would like toavoid use of A.D. [Anno Domini] (some people call this system as C. E. [common era]) that isconnected to Christianity. I have been advocating A.S. [after science] instead of A.D. This year is0020 A.S., 2000 years less than 2020 A.D.
Your work le should include following information:# Title of your work
# Name of all authors (do not abbreviate any name)# Af liation (if any) and email addresses of all authors# Main body of text
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In References, Please use iDarwin style. iDarwin reference list is in alphabetical order of author
surnames presented in capital letters. Example references are shown below.
<Book written by single author>
SAITOU Naruya (2018) Introduction to Evolutionary Genomics Second Edition. Springer.
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SAITOU Naruya (2006) Relationship between genetic and linguistic differentiation of people in Eurasia. In OSADA Toshiki andHASE N. eds., Proceedings of the Pre-symposium of RIHN and 7th ESCA Harvard-Kyoto Roundtable, pp. 220-222.
<Single author work appeared in journal>
MINAKA Nobuhiro (1990) Cladograms and reticulated graphs: A proposal for graphic representation of cladistic structures.
Bulletin of the Biogeographical Society of Japan, vol. 45, pp. 1-10.
<Two author work appeared in journal>
TAMURA Koichiro and NEI Masatoshi (1993) Estimation of the number of nucleotide substitutions in the control region ofmitochondrial DNA in humans and chimpanzees. Molecular Biology and Evolution, vol. 10, pp. 512–526.
<More than two author work appeared in journal>
SATTA Yoko, KLEIN Jan, and TAKAHATA Naoyuki (2000) DNA archives and our nearest relative: The trichotomy problemrevisited. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, vol. 14, pp. 259–275.
<Many author work appeared in journal>
UEDA Shintaroh, WATANABE Yoshihisa, SAITOU Naruya, OMOTO Keiichi, HAYASHIDA Hidenori, MIYATA Takashi,HISAJIMA Hiroshi, and HONJO Tasuku (1989) Nucleotide sequences of immunoglobulin-epsilon pseudogenes in man and apes
and their phylogenetic relationships. Journal of Molecular Biology, vol. 205, pp. 85-90.
Or
UEDA Shintaroh and others (1989) Nucleotide sequences of immunoglobulin-epsilon pseudogenes in man and apes and their
phylogenetic relationships. Journal of Molecular Biology, vol. 205, pp. 85-90.
<Website (this type of reference is named as Ref. X)>
DNA Data Bank of Japan <https://www.ddbj.nig.ac.jp/index-e.html>

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to use Appendix if necessary. Appendix may corresponds to supplementary information in manyother journals. By this way, we keep one work as one downloadable le.

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editorial of ce considered your submission as worth reviewing, peer review will start, and you will
receive review result in certain time.
I, Editor-in-Chief of iDarwin, am fully aware that this new journal is challenge to current
situation of scienti c paper publication that is dominated by small number of gigantic publishers andpoisoned by impact factors. I hope we will not end up like Don Quixote de la Mancha who justdreamed of his ideal life.
ReferencesRef. 1: https://www.biography.com/scientist/charles-darwin
Ref. 2: https://www.whitehouse.gov/about-the-white-house/presidents/abraham-lincoln/
Ref. 3: http://www.abrahamlincolnonline.org/lincoln/speeches/gettysburg.htm
Saitou Naruya (2013) Introduction to Evolutionary Genomics. Springer.
Saitou Naruya (2018) Introduction to Evolutionary Genomics Second Edition. Springer.
Note: Domain part of email address of iDarwin (idarwin.editorial.of ce) was changed fromgmail.com to nig.ac.jp on April 14, AS 0020.

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Author Photo (taken on December 23, AS 0019 at Kakeroma Island, Japan)

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Publication history of this article
February 12, AS 0020: this article was published in iDarwin.
May 14, AS 0022: Following revision of the publication style of iDarwin (see Saitou [0022]), last names were no longer capitalized. Some additional
editorial changes were also made.

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