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| Addresses topics in community and ecosystem dynamics, evolution of sex and mating systems, organismal adaptation, and genetic aspects of evolution. Tables of contents available. | |
| Index of resources on evolution. Includes academic departments, organisations, museums and exhibits, collections, molecular evolution, palaeontology and natural history, journals, books and software. | ||
| Electronic and Internet accessible tools and resources for molecular biology, biotechnology, molecular evolution, genetics, biochemistry and biomolecular modelling. Includes links to protein and DNA data analysis servers which provide sequence and structural homology searches etc. | ||
| Set of links to selected, evaluated and annotated Internet resources relevant to evolution. | ||
| Recent papers by students of evolution at New York University. | ||
| Systematic Biology is the quarterly journal of the Society of Systematic Biologists, offering abstracts of papers on theory, principles, and methods of systematics, as well as evolution, morphology, biogeography, palaeontology, genetics, and classification. | ||
| Resources exploring the phenomenon of Piltdown Man, a discovery in the field of human evolution now known to be a hoax. Documents the efficacy of Piltdown from its origins in 1912 17 to the 1953-55 expose. Includes articles which set the context of early 20th-century anthropology, examples of favourable and critical commentary on Piltdown Man, and pieces setting out the prosecution and defence of likely hoax suspects. | ||
| Full text of The Voyage of the Beagle, describing Charles Darwin's voyage from St. Jago and the Cape de Verd Islands to Mauritius and back to England. | ||
| Lecture notes, supplementary reading or exercises, and links to other sites or software from the course in evolution at New York University. Topics include Darwin, adaptation, evolutionary genetics, speciation, systematics and phylogeny, history of diversity and fossils, biogeography, origins of novelty, molecular evolution, coevolution, and human issues. | ||
| Guide to natural extinctions with reference to biodiversity. Covers mass extinctions and the various climate, asteroid and sea level theories, the most recent mass extinction - the ice age, the range of life on earth both past and present, and outlines some of the key questions for researchers. Also features a glossary of terms. | ||
| Index to Internet resources in biochemistry, biotechnology, botany, ecology, evolution, genetics, microbiology and zoology. | ||
| UCMP's mission is the conservation of palaeontological materials, collections development, and research and instructional support. The Museum's collections include protists, plants, invertebrates and vertebrates. Extensive Web exhibits follow the themes of phylogeny (the 'family tree' of life), geological time (the temporal existence of groups of organisms) and evolutionary thought (evolutionary topics and scientists in their historical context). | ||
| Peter Kropotkin's 1902 essay, challenging the Darwinian principle which states that animal and human kingdoms evolve and survive around the theory of conflict. Instead, Kropotkin suggests that in addition to the existence of conflict, a concept of mutual aid co exists within societies and it is the latter of these social principles that enables cultures to survive and evolve. | ||
| Full text of On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life. | ||
| Electronic and Internet accessible tools and resources for molecular biology, biotechnology, molecular evolution, genetics, biochemistry and biomolecular modelling. Includes links to protein and DNA data analysis servers which provide sequence and structural homology searches etc. | ||
| Book about evolution and the role of science in human affairs. Chapter headings include Why Teach Evolution, Evolution and the Nature of Science, Frequently Asked Questions about Evolution and the Nature of Science. The book also includes a range of teaching activities providing concise scientific information, a list of materials needed, instructional strategies and references. | ||
| An automated catalogue of numerous mailing lists relevant to evolution, with descriptions and subscription details. | ||
| Journal covering animal thermoregulation, respiration, circulation, osmotic and ionic regulation, environmental acclimation, evolutionary physiology, and metabolic physiology and biochemistry. Tables of contents available. | ||
| Addresses the scientific content of evolutionary theory, with discussions of science, ethics and religion, educational resources covering the diversity of life, constancy and change, and human identity, and articles giving scientific responses to criticisms of Darwin's theory. Contains links to the full text of The Origin of Species and The Descent of Man, court cases describing decisions affecting the teaching of evolutionary theory in American schools, and related papers from Scientific American and the National Academy of Sciences. | ||
| Recent papers by students of evolution at New York University. | ||
| Guide to phylogenetic systematics, the study of the way that biologists reconstruct the pattern of events that have led to the distribution and diversity of life. Covers an introduction to cladistics, methodology and implications of cladistics, and the need for cladistics. | ||
| A searchable collection of resources in the field of astrobiology including cosmochemistry, chemical evolution, the origin and evolution of life, planetary biology and chemistry, formation of stars and planets (space science), and expansion of terrestrial life into space. | ||
| Index to information resources about developmental biology. Includes gametogenesis, fertilisation, early development, organogenesis, morphogenesis, pattern formation, gene regulation and genetics, evolution, diseases, defects and development. | ||
| Information about the prehistoric people known as Neanderthals and their modern successors, considering human evolution by addressing the relation between the two groups, and the interaction between them. Fossil and genetic evidence is presented for Western, Central, and Eastern Europe, Siberia, and Western and Central Asia. Bibliographies of related books and serials are given, together with a listing of anthropological museums around the world. | ||
| Offers diagrams and laboratory notes relating to animal diversity, phylogeny, animal behaviour and ethology. Specific areas include discussion of phyla and phylum species, animal communication, mating, feeding and social behaviour, animal consciousness and intelligence. | ||
| A distributed Internet project containing information about phylogeny and biodiversity. The project is designed to contain information about the phylogenetic relationships and characteristics of organisms, to illustrate the diversity and unity of living organisms, and to link biological information available on the Internet in the form of a phylogenetic navigator. The project aims to provide a map to biological information to be used by researchers, teachers and students. | ||
| An interactive documentary tracing four million years of human evolution. Also offers palaeontology news on findings relating to evolutionary studies. Macromedia Flash 5 is required. | ||
| Software package for the simulation of genetic evolution in structured or viscous populations. Supports models for simulation of group selection, punctuated equilibria, peak shifts, speciation, and metaadaptation. Package can be downloaded free of charge. | ||
| Centre investigating similarities between apes and humans in relation to social life, ecology, cognition, neurology, and molecular genetics. Provides a dictionary of hyperlinked terms, research topics, and a series of sounds illustrating noises made by apes, human interviews, and video clips showing chimpanzee conflict, food sharing, and the bushmeat crisis. | ||
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