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Evolution
Accompanies PBS' "eight-hour television miniseries travels the world to examine evolutionary science and the profound effect it has had on society and culture."
Sections include: Darwin ; Change ; Extinction ; Survival ; Sex ; Human ; Religion.
The site also includes an Evolution Library and resources for Teachers & Students.
PBS Online

Evolution Website - (dead link) Charles Darwin
Topics include The Man and His Legacy ; The Origin Online ; Bibliography ; Debate ; Alife ; Life on Earth ; Extinction Files ; Fossil Roadshow ; Natural Selections.
Useful for all education levels.
BBC Online - Education - (dead link)

Understanding Evolution
"Understanding Evolution is a non-commercial, education website, teaching the science and history of evolutionary biology. This site is here to help you understand what evolution is, how it works, how it factors into your life, how research in evolutionary biology is performed, and how ideas in this area have changed over time."
- University of California Museum of Paleontology and the National Center for Science Education.

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actionbioscience.org
"promoting bioscience literacy"

  • Evolution: Intelligent Design?
    A Special Report from Natural History Magazine
    "Three proponents of Intelligent Design (ID) present their views of design in the natural world. Each view is immediately followed by a response from a proponent of evolution (EVO). The report, printed in its entirety, opens with an introduction by Natural History magazine and concludes with an overview of the ID movement."

American Media - Speaking of Faith
Weekly public radio series.

  • Evolution and Wonder (July 20, 2006)
    Understanding Charles Darwin
    "We'll take a fresh and thought-provoking look at Darwin's life and ideas. He did not argue against God but against a simple understanding of the world - its beauty, its brutality, and its unfolding creation."
    Able to: Read Text ; Download Program ; Streamline ; Podcast.

American RadioWorks

  • Intelligent Designs on Evolution
    Listen to the 2006 episode online or read the transcript.
    Sections include: Dover, PA ; Intelligent Design in the Classroom ; The Evolution of Science.
    By Mary Beth Kirchner

Anthropology Human Origins Website
By Kevin L. Callahan

Becoming Human
Paleoanthropology, Evolution and Human Origins
"...is an interactive documentary experience that tells the story of our origins. Journey through four million years of human evolution with your guide, Donald Johanson."
From the Institute of Human Origins

Calvin, William H.
William H. Calvin's Books and Articles
Affiliate Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, University of Washington School of Medicine

DNA Interactive
"This site is dedicated to the moment on February 1953, when Jim Watson and Francis Crick discovered the double-helical structure of DNA - and to the scientists who breathed life into that structure."
Sections include: Timeline ; Code ; Manipulation ; Genome ; Applications [Human Evolution] ; Chronicle.
- The Dolan DNA Learning Center, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory

The eSkeletons Project
"The e-Skeletons Project website enables you to view the bones of a human, chimpanzee, and baboon and gather information about them from our osteology database... This site provides an interactive environment in which to examine and learn about skeletal anatomy. This includes: high-quality images of bones - labels of all muscles, articulations, and morphological features - high-resolution 3-D renderings of the skeletal elements in both animation (Quicktime) and interactive virtual reality (VRML) format."
Created at the University of Texas at Austin

Evolution and the Nature of Science Institutes (ENSI)
"The main objective of ENSI is to improve the teaching of evolution in High School Biology courses by encouraging teachers to teach evolutionary thinking in the context of a more complete understanding of modern scientific thinking (see Nickels et al article on this site)."
Lesson plans include: Nature of Science Lessons ; Evolution Lessons ; Origin of Life Lessons.

Evolution Resources From the National Academies
"This Web page is designed to provide easy access to books, position statements, and additional resources on evolution education and research. These materials have been produced by the National Academies and other sources. The site will be updated and expanded periodically."
- The National Academies

Human Evolution
"Linked from this page are documents summarizing the hominid fossil record and hypothesized lines of human evolution from 5 million year ago to the present."
Sections include: Tour of the Human Fossil Record ; The Hominid Brain ; Hominid Tools ; Hominid Fossil Sites and Patterns of Hominid Dispersal.
- Handprint : Ancestral Lines.

Human Origin Program: In Search of What Makes Us Human
"...to furthering scientific knowledge about the evolutionary origin of human beings, including our species' relationship and interactions with the natural world. Our ongoing fieldwork and new projects in Africa, Asia, and Europe investigate clues and accumulate precise data about early human adaptation, evolution, and environmental change."
- Smithsonian Institution

Journal of Evolution and Technology
"A peer-reviewed electronic journal publishing contemporary research into future science and philosophy."

Living Links
A Center for the Advanced Study of Ape and Human Evolution
"The Living Links Center specializes in comparisons of the social life, ecology, cognition, neurology, and molecular genetics of apes and humans. Established in 1997 at the nation's oldest and largest primate center, our institute conducts all of its work with noninvasive techniques that we would not hesitate to apply to human volunteers. Our goals are 1) to reconstruct human evolution, 2) pinpoint the differences and similarities between humans and apes, and 3) educate the public about apes, and promote their well-being and conservation."

National Geograpahic.com

Nation Public Radio (NPR) - The Connection.org

Natural History Museum, London, England

  • Darwin Centre - (dead link)
    "It provides world-class storage facilities for precious collections, new laboratories, and access behind the scenes for visitors."

PBS - NOVA - Neanderthals on Trial
Companion Web site to the January 2002 broadcast.
"The film probes the enigma of our Neanderthal cousins and the roots of our own ancestry."
Sections include: Text ; Casts of Characters ; Into the Fray ; Tracing Ancestry with MtDNA ; Dig and Deduce ; Resources ; Teacher's Guide ; Transcript.
PBS Online

Replicators: Evolutionary Powerhouses
" is a website specifically designed to explore Dawkins' concept of replicators in an interesting and interactive format, providing readable discussions and interactive demonstrations that entertain as well as inform."
A ThinkQuest site created by high school students in Russia and the U.S.

The Shape of Life
PBS Online (April 2002)
"A revolutionary eight-part television series that reveals the dramatic rise of the animal kingdom through the breakthroughs of scientific discovery."
Episodes include: Origins ; Life on the Move ; The First Hunter ; The Conquerors ; Survival Game ; Ultimate Animal ; Explosion of Life ; Bones, Brawn and Brains.
Sections include: Episodes Overview ; Explorations & Scientists ; The Animals ; Image Guide ; Activities & Resources ; Glossary.

University of California, Berkeley - Museum of Paleontology

  • Evolution Wing
    "These exhibits trace evolutionary thought as it has developed over time, pausing to ponder the contributions of scientists and thinkers including Aristotle, Darwin, Wallace, and many others."
  • e-volution forum for teachers
    "...a website where teachers can access and share information concerning the teaching of evolution."

Charles Darwin

The Writings of Charles Darwin on the Web
"The most complete collection of Darwin's work ever published- with original page numbers, illustrations etc."
Sections include: Darwin's Writings Darwin Overview ; Bibliography ; Images.
Edited by Dr John van Wyhe

Darwin Country
Sections of this impressive site includes: Time ; Plants ; Images ; People ; Places ; Topics ; Objects ; Animals.
From Shrewsbury Museums Service

Texts & Papers

The Journal of Syms Covington
"An annotated transcription of the journal of Darwin's assistant on the voyage of the HMS Beagle, 1831-1836."
Postmaster of Pambula, New South Wales
Edited and Annotated by Vern Weitzel, Australian National University.
Published by the Australian Science Archives Project.

Digital Library

Bibliography of Genetic Variation in Natural Populations
"This bibliography of over 40,000 references has been accumulated over the last 25 years. The primary focus is the study of genetic variation in natural populations of animals, plants, and microbes. The secondary focus has been conservation, with an emphasis on the application of genetic principles to conservation. Nevertheless, this is a somewhat eclectic collection of titles that reflects my sometimes wandering interests and teaching responsibilities over the years (evolution, human genetics, etc.)...There is a taxonomic bias in this bibliography towards fish, especially salmon, trout, and their kin. There has been no effort to exclude papers dealing with the genetics and conservation of other taxa, but there has been an effort to include more papers on the general biology and natural history of salmonid fishes."
By Fred Allendorf, Division of Biological Sciences, University of Montana

The eSkeletons Project
 "The e-Skeletons Project website enables you to view the bones of a human, chimpanzee, and baboon and gather information about them from our osteology database...This site provides an interactive environment in which to examine and learn about skeletal anatomy. This includes: high-quality images of bones - labels of all muscles, articulations, and morphological features - high-resolution 3-D renderings of the skeletal elements in both animation (Quicktime) and interactive virtual reality (VRML) format."
Created at the University of Texas at Austin

Freethought Debater

Human Evolution : The Fossil Evidence in 3D
"...UCSB online 3D gallery of modern primate relatives and fossil ancestors of humans. This gallery contains five modern primate crania, and five fossil crania. The crania can be rotated 360 degrees. Each cranium is accompanied by a short description of its relevance to human evolution, and a site map.
By Phillip L. Walker, Edward H. Hagen , Dept. of Anthropology, University of California, Santa Barbara

Mesquite
A Modular System for Evolutionary Analysis
Software by W. Maddison & D. Maddison, University of Arizona

National Academy Press (free online versions)

National Center for Biotechnology Information

  • Entrez Popset
    "A PopSet is a set of DNA sequences that have been collected to analyse the evolutionary relatedness of a population. The population could originate from different members of the same species, or from organisms from different species."

National Science Teachers Association (NSTA)

Nature [Magazine]

New Scientist - Unnatural Selection
 April 22, 2000 online article on Creationism.

The Talk.Origins Archive
Exploring the Creation/Evolution Controversy
"Talk.origins is a Usenet newsgroup devoted to the discussion and debate of biological and physical origins. Most discussions in the newsgroup center on the creation/evolution controversy, but other topics of discussion include the origin of life, geology, biology, catastrophism, cosmology and theology... This archive is a collection of articles and essays, most of which have appeared in talk.origins at one time or another. The primary reason for this archive's existence is to provide mainstream scientific responses to the many frequently asked questions (FAQs) and frequently rebutted assertions that appear in talk.origins."

  • Fossil Hominids: The Evidence for Human Evolution
    "This web site is intended to provide an overview of the study of human evolution, and of the currently accepted fossil evidence. It also contains a very comprehensive treatment of creationist claims about human evolution."
    By Jim Foley

Teaching Evolution in the States
By Lawrence S. Lerner, Prof. Emeritus, California State University, Long Beach
Published by The Thomas B. Fordham Foundation, 2000.

University of Glasgow - Hunterian Museum - Zoology


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