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The Evolutionary Tales - Recasting of Chaucer's "The Canterbury Tales" to present evolutionary theory and the pseudoscientific nature of "creation science" by Ronald L. Ecker. Full text available online.

The Talk.Origins Archive: Evolution FAQs - A very informative site about biology and evolutionary theory.

Nearctica - Evolution - Extensive annotated collection of links on the process of evolution.

Evolution Happens! - Information about biological evolution in a Q&A format. Explains why creation science is not science. Includes photographs and many links.

The Evolution Page - Provides background to the evolution debate, links and an outline of a new model for large scale changes.

European Society for Evolutionary Biology - The Society aims promotes evolutionary research in a wide sense. It publishes the Journal of Evolutionary Biology, and organizes a conference every other year.

Essays on Evolution - Essays on dinosaur origin and extinction, bird origin and flight, and human origin.

Hans-Cees Speel's Homepage - The Evolution and Philosophy section discusses evolution in biology, philosophy, artificial intelligence, and memetics.

Science and Creationism - Considers the science that supports the theory of evolution - from the National Academy of Sciences.

Replicators: Evolutionary Powerhouses - Extensive and interactive educational resource providing information on biological and cultural evolution, language development, and philosophy.

Triumph of Life - Companion to PBS series on evolution. Features essays, video clips, and special interactive features that explore the story of life on Earth.

A Post-Darwinian Probabilistic Model - A probabilistic model of biological evolution with a new interpretation of Darwinian natural selection and 3 examples: 1) 5 mass extinctions 2) hominization 3) the PO2PAL increase.

Evolution's Arrow - Web version of a book written by John Stewart about the direction of evolution and the future of humanity.

Radiation of the First Animals - Illustrated lecture transcript by Dr. Jere Lipps. Discussion of the evolutionary record of the pre-Cambrian period and the Cambrian explosion, including the traces and impacts of non-skeletal life forms.

The Evolution Evidence Page - A collection of articles about evolution, most of which deal primarily with human evolution, from a variety of sources. They include discussion of the anatomical, fossil and genetic evidence.

Introduction to Phylogeny - University of California Museum of Paleontology virtual exhibit explores the relationship of phylogeny and evolution.

Evolution of Evolvability - This paper shows how evolution tunes the content and frequency of genetic variation to enhance its evolvability, organising genetic systems into hierarchies. Genetic evolution is neither random nor blind.

Origin of Life: Prebiotic Synthesis of Amino Acids - Two articles discussing chemical evolution in light of the Zeeman effect and the lightning cloud experiments of Stanley Miller.

Beliefs of U.S. Public About Evolution and Creation - Presents and discusses the results of polls (from Gallup, About.com, and other sources) of various economic, educational, and religious groups about evolution and creation.

National Association for Objectivity in Science about Evolution - Promotes teaching of critical thinking about the theory of evolution.

29 Evidences for Macroevolution: The Scientific Case for Common Descent - This article directly addresses the scientific evidences in favor of macroevolutionary theory and common descent.

Articles on Evolution - From the archives of the Boston Review.

Evolution Update - A tool for academic research in evolutionary biology and its associated controversies.

On the Origin and Impact of Information in the Average Evolution - Paper on the relationship between information and the process of evolution.

Evolution by Natural Selection - An introduction to how the appearance of design in the living world arose from a mindless process.

Songbird Shows How Evolution Works - BBC News article about study on Himalayan songbirds that suggests how one species can evolve into two.

Vertebrate Flight Exhibit - Explores the physics of vertebrate flight, with particular emphasis on its origins and evolution.

The Biology & Evolution Jump Station - Large collection of links to biology resources on the web, including evolution science sites.

The Telson Spur: A Way Station for Snark Hunters - A meta-list of mainly academic resources organized on the theme of necessity vs. contingency in the study of time and evolution.

The WWW Virtual Library: Evolution (Biosciences)

Evolutionary Biology Links - Partially annotated list of evolutionary biology websites, including historical documents, links to individual researchers' sites, specific topics (speciation, replicators) and links to related fields.

Evolution Websites - A well organized index of links to evolution sites. Links are organized by general subject area.

Evolution on the Web for Biology Students - Annotated directory of links for students of evolution. Includes coverage of evolutionary theory, the history of evolutionary thought, Charles Darwin, human evolution, and the fossil record.

Human Evolution - Overview of major features of human evolution including a timeline and descriptions of species.

Fossil Evidence for Human Evolution in China - Resources meant to introduce both earlier and more recent fossil hominid discoveries from China.

Institute of Human Origins - A non-profit, multidisciplinary research organization, affiliated with Arizona State University, dedicated to the recovery and analysis of the fossil evidence for human evolution.

Prominent Hominid Fossils - The list is sorted by species, going from older to more recent species. Within each species, finds are sorted by the order of their discovery. Each species has a type specimen which was used to define it.

Think Quest : Human Origins - Forum for both students and educators alike providing factual information and follow up questions.

Australian and Asian Palaeoanthropology - Information and teaching resources on human evolution and the hominid fossil record from Australia, East Asia and South-East Asia.

Carboniferous Human Bones - An interesting study in which claims have been made that human bones have been found in context with Carboniferous age geological formations.

The Evolution of Man - Exhibit at the Hooper Virtual Natural History Museum.

Human Prehistory - Exhibit that "walks through" the various stages of human evolution.

Leakey Foundation - Non profit organization site with several articles, glossary, and links section.

The Multi-habitat Hypothesis - A theory of human evolution which seeks to understand how humans evolved from animals that were similar to the great apes.

IIAS - Institute For Ice Age Studies - Not-for-profit foundation to support and further research and education concerning human evolution and prehistory during the late Pleistocene. Site has information about prehistoric archeological and anthropological studies.

Human Origin Program - Smithsonian Institution's journey through five million years of human evolution.

Becoming Human - Arizona State University's Institute for Human Origins reviews four million years of human evolution in an interactive documentary. Includes an extensive glossary, a bibliography, and an annotated set of links. [Requires Flash and a high-speed connection.]

Human Origins and Evolution in Africa - Links for primates, human evolution and paleoecology, course notes on Human Origins, and Jeanne Sept's personal web pages at Indiana University.

Human Evolution from Ape to Technological Man - Traces origins from ape ancestors such as Australopithecus to modern man. Talks about Neanderthals and their relationship to the gorilla and chimpanzee.

INQUA Commission on Human Evolution and Paleoecology - An international, interdisciplinary network of anthropological archaeologists, paleontologists and other quaternary specialists working on issues of hominid evolution. Includes information about working groups and publications of the commission.

Hominidae Skull Recreations - Skull reconstructions for sale.

Origins and Evolution of Human Diet - Central repository of information and links pertaining to the study of the origins and evolution of human diet.

Human Origin - A proposal of an evolutionary explanation of the human bipedallity, sexual behaviour, language, and consciousness.

Human Evolution - An interactive online textbook. [requires Shockwave plugin]

Archaeology Info - Comprehensive human evolution and archaeology online resource for amateurs and experts alike.

Human Evolution - A study of the evolution of hominids.

Handprint : Ancestral Lines - Provides an'interactive' graph that maps the journey of our hominid ancestors from 5 million years ago to present day with descriptions of the various species.

Hominid Evolution - Descriptions of fossil and recent hominid species.

Did Language Reduce Sequence Variation? The Evolution of Humans - Two articles regarding theories of rapid evolution through biased gene conversion and loss of allelic variation, leading to the winnowing of the bushy hominid tree.

Evolution's Arrow - Full text of a book presenting the author's views about directionality in evolution and its implications for human society.

Hominid Skull Photos - Photographs of hominid fossil casts provided by the Anthropology department at California State University.

Hominid Sites Around The World - Interactive map of archaeological sites in Africa, Europe, Asia, and Australia, with brief articles about major species and finds.

Human Evolution Discussion Group - Dealing with topics ranging from human origins to language to social behavior.

Human Evolution: The Fossil Evidence in 3D - 3D gallery of the skulls of five modern primate relatives and five fossil ancestors of humans contains, each of which may be rotated through 360 degrees. With accompanying descriptions.

A Brain for All Seasons: Human Evolution - Offers an outline of William Calvin's from his book about a theory about human brain evolution and climate change.

Hominid Evolution - Guided tour of the apes and our ancestors from the Hunterian Museum, Glasgow, Scotland.

BBC Online - Apeman - Essays, audio files, and videos related to the BBC series about human evolution.

Human Origins and Prehistory - Class page to go along with Indiana University's anthropology class, A105. Lectures cover the human place among the pages, evolution theories, genetics and current research. Related resource links are included.

Instant Evolution: The Influence of the City on Human Genes - Argues that humans have, in fact, been evolving, since Neanderthal times. Points to new studies being done with gene mutations.

Ape Men and Analogs - 40 Years of Hominid Models - Essay on the need for and use of models in paleoanthropology.

Human Origins - Radio program discusses fossil discoveries that may provide the earliest documented evidence of toolmaking, and push the origin of homo sapiens back more than 400,000 years. A discussion featuring Donald Johanson and Blake Edgar.

Reflections on the Origins of Scavenging and Hunting in Early Hominids - An essay by James Q. Jacobs discussing when our earliest human ancestors first began to scavenge for meat and hunt. Includes references.

The Inevitable Eve - Article by Jeffrey A. Harvey arguing that the Eve Hypothesis is statistically true.

A Look at Modern Human Origins - A reference site for information on human evolution, with images of hominid specimens arranged by species and site, papers written by C David Kreger, and a bibliography.

Paleoprimatology & Human Evolution Yahoo! Group - A forum for the scientific discussion of paleoanthropology, paleoprimatology, physical anthropology, cultural anthropology, stone age archeology, human origins, primate biology, and primate evolution.

Human Origins and Development of Culture - Covers the development of humans from our ancestors. In module format.

Life and Times of Early Man - Overview of major groups of hominids.

Sahelanthropus tchadensis - Toumai - Web Resources for Sahelanthropus tchadensis aka "Toumai" can be found here.

Spirituality and Evolution - This article discusses the evolutionary significance of spiritual development.

Paleoanthropology in the 1990's - A series of fifteen essays about the most recent findings in the study of human origins and evolution.

BBC News: Asteroids May Have Affected Human Evolution - The ascent of mankind could have been influenced by frequent cosmic catastrophes.

Handy Clues to Ascent of Man - BBC News report on study suggesting that the precision grip of early modern humans may have allowed them to triumph over Neanderthals.

BBC News: 'Oldest' Ape-man Fossils Revealed - Scientists unveiled the remains of a hominid said to be six million years old.

The Current Debate Between the Multi-Regional and Single Origin Theories of Human Evolution - Academic overview of the two theories, by Holly Sherard.

Human Evolution Alive with Controversy - Summary of the Out-Of-Africa debate, by Dr. George Johnson.

Mitochondrial DNA Clarifies Human Evolution - Technical article describing recent DNA studies and evolution hypotheses, by Max Ingman.

Australian Broadcasting Corporation: Further Controversy on Human Origins - Article about Mungo Man's support for the regional continuity theory.

Multiregional Evolution - Summary of claims from the polygenic side of the modern human origins debate, by James Q. Jacobs.

Origins of Modern Humans: Multiregional or Out of Africa - Analysis in support of the Out of Africa model, by Dr. Donald Johanson.

PBS NewsHour: Rethinking Evolution - Transcript of an interview with the Director of the Human Origins Project.

Nature: Humans Did Come Out of Africa, Says DNA - Evidence that we are all descended from a single ancestral group that lived in Africa.

Time: Rewriting Prehistory - A team of researchers concludes that Chinese, like everyone else, came out of Africa.

EXN.ca: An Evolution Revolution - Article on Nanjing Man's role in the multi-regionalism theory.

Multiregional Evolution - Articles and theories, by Andrew Giles.

Ethiopian Skull Discovery May Suggest Single Prehuman Ancestor - News report on evidence supporting the theory that modern man evolved from a single prehuman species that developed in Africa and migrated throughout much of the world. [Free registration required]

Scientific American: Is Out of Africa Going Out the Door? - Reanalysis of gene studies and new fossil evidence cast doubts of a popular theory of human origins.

Multiregional Evolution of Humans - The 'out of Africa' model of human evolution is criticised.

PINTUBI-1, A Modern Australoid Points to the Past - Article describing an Australian hominid skull, as evidence for the multiregional theory.

Kow Swamp: Is it Homo Erectus? Part II - Paleoanthropology article about the Australian hominid fossils, with several illustrations.

Fossil Hominids: The Evidence for Human Evolution - An overview of human evolution, summarizing current thinking and describing the fossil evidence for Australopithecus and Homo.

Aquatic Ape Theory - Self-professedly biased explanation of the Aquatic Ape theory and competing theories for the evolution of humans.

Aquatic Man and African Eve - Two electronic books written by Denis Montgomery. The books may also be downloaded in PDF format.

Aquatic Ape Theory and Speech Origins: A Hypothesis - Paper by Marc J. M. Verhaegen, published in Speculations in Science and Technology.

Aquatic Ape Theory: Sink or Swim? - A critique of the aquatic ape theory, with examples refuting the basic premises of the theory.

The Role of Water in Human Evolution - Presentation from Hooper Virtual Natural History Museum, written by Catherine Friedl.

Umbrella Hypothesis and Parsimony in Human Evolution - A critique of the Aquatic Ape Theory. An essay written by John H. Langdon and published in Journal of Human Evolution in 1997.

Water and Human Evolution - Papers from a symposium at University Gent, Flanders, Belgium.

Did Humans Descend from "Aquatic Apes"? - A Straight Dope column criticizing the aquatic ape hypothesis.

River Apes - Promotes a variation on the aquatic ape theory that suggests humans evolved from two hominids that were adapted to a water-side habitat.

Dolphins May Have Been Our Ancestors - Article describes an alternative hypothesis on human origins advanced by author Elaine Morgan.

Aquatic Ape Story - Short article of speculation by Michael Hyson, focusing on a 6.5 million year gap in the human fossil record, during which time we evolved many of our human characteristics.

Kenyanthropus Platyops - Nature Magazine - Official article from this scientific publication that details discovery of new hominid species complete with images (pdf. version avaailable for download).

Flat-faced Man is Puzzle - BBC News story about the discovery of fossil remains of a human-like creature that researchers say represents an entirely new branch on the human family tree.

Darwin Day at the University of Tennessee - Annual educational event to encourage teaching evolution as a unifying concept in biology and to disseminate accurate information concerning evolution.

Evolution Activities from Access Excellence - Teaching materials related to various aspects of evolutionary biology.

Life Drop - An educational site about evolution. It includes a 3D Java-based virtual world using Artificial Life, as well as information about the main evolution theories.

Danny Yee's Book Reviews: Evolution - Reviews of several score books about evolution - mostly popular titles, but some academic works as well.

Evolution at Old Dominion University - Course-specific materials and links to a variety of web resources on evolutionary biology.

Five Major Misconceptions about Evolution - This article clears up five of the most important misconceptions about evolution. Includes rebuttals.

Evolution Education Resource Center - Offers FAQs, an overview of the process, and other links.

BBC Education: Evolution - Educational site featuring the full text of Origin of Species, essays on Darwin and interactive learning activities.

Online Biology Textbook - Constantly updated and revised college-level biology textbook available online for free.

PBS: Evolution - Online course and guide for teachers plus lessons for students.

Evolution and Nature of Science Institute - Lessons for teaching evolution and the nature of science in high school biology.

EvoNet.org: Education Resources - Links to curriculum, syllabi, lectures, activities and more regarding teaching evolution.

BBC News: Teaching the Evolution Teachers - Article about a plan to improve how the theory of evolution is taught in the United States and Canada.

National Center for Science Education - Clearinghouse for information and advice to keep evolution in the science classroom and "scientific creationism" out.

Becoming Human - Online documentary, activities and lesson plans

BioMedia: Eye to Eye - Annotated links and lesson plan on eye evolution.

Teaching Evolution and the Nature of Science - Online book for teachers provided by the National Academy of Sciences.

Eugenie Scott - Evolution and Providence - Video of lecture on how to teach evolution.

Evidence for Evolution - Basic outline of the evidence for evolution, with futher pages that go into more depth.

Evolution - Highlights of the major pieces of evidence, including living organisms, common ancestry, homologous structures, vestigial organs, biochemistry. Also discusses the theory of evolution.

Evolutionary Systems and Artificial Life - This course presents an overview of the field of Evolutionary Systems and its applied branch of Artificial Life. The historical and philosophical foundations of evolutionary thought are explored with particular emphasis on computational simulations of its models. Topics include: Self-Organizing Systems, Natural Selection, Dynamic Systems, Boolean Networks, Cellular Automata, Genetic Algorithms, Evolutionary Robotics, etc.

Universal Problem Solvers, Inc. Home Page

The Museum of Evolution and Artificial Life (MEAL) - MEAL demonstrates concepts in evolutionary biology to impatient visitors with modest hardware.

E-den - Freeware artificial life program designed for the Windows environment.

Phylogeny and Evolution - This is a site for various projects in evolution, molecular evolution and phylogenetic epidemiology being carried out by members in the Department of Zoology at the University of Oxford.

Altruist - Free PC software package for simulating evolution in structured populations. Includes models for group selection, group territoriality, Wright's shifting balance model of punctuated equilibria and speciation.

AJ's Black Smoker - A java-based simulation illustrating natural selection in action, with a dynamic environment affected by simulated biological activity. Requires Java 2 plug-in. Contextual help, explanatory material available.

Food Chain - Open-ended simulation game of evolving species. Players design species of animals, which compete against each other in a virtual jungle.

evolution@home - Designed on the model of SETI@home, this project makes evolutionary data available for download to, and analysis on, personal computers. Splitting up the work among a variety of machines results in faster results generation.

Gene Pool - In this artificial life simulation colourful creatures evolve the ability to swim in an aquatic environment.

DarwinBots - DarwinBots is an artificial life software in some ways similar to C-Robots and other programming games. Every simulated creature is a virtual robot with complex input and outputs and each DNA is in fact a program that acts on a memory cells array. Freeware.

GALife - Watch creatures based on a neural network learn to solve simple problems (eating the right foods, escaping traps) through random mutations and selection of the fittest. Highly configurable, with a modular structure.

Stuart A. Kauffman Home Page - Abstracts and investigations on origins of life, beginning with autocatalytic sets through the mechanism of spontaneous organization.

Amos' WWW links page - Part of the ExPASy Molecular Biology Server, this extensive list contains almost exclusively pointers to information sources for life scientists with an interest in biological macromolecules.

CMSMBR Molecular Evolution - Phylogeny - Small list of links to tools and resources for phylogenetic analyses of evolution.

The Thermosynthesis Home Page - Describes and explains a theory that shows how organisms can use or may have used thermal cycling as an energy source, for example in volcanic hot springs, as an evolutionary step towards photosynthesis.

Farside Research Institute - The evolution group of the Institute of Molecular BioSciences at Massey University, Palmerston North, New Zealand.

International Society of Molecular Evolution - A non-profit organization founded in 1993, and incorporated in 1997, to facilitate the communication and publishing of information in the field of Molecular Evolution. Membership benefits include a personal subscription to the Journal of Molecular Evolution (JME), the official Journal of the Society, and discounts for the international meetings organized by the Society.

Szostak Laboratory - Details work exploring the evolution of novel ribozymes (deoxyribo and ribonucleic acid catalysts) from populations of random sequences, attempting to shed light on the origins of biological catalysis.

Molecular Evolution at Dalhousie University Department of Biochemistry - Conducts research on the early evolution of genes and genomes, using standard methods of molecular genetics as well as computer algorithms. Topics considered include: introns, eukaryotic genome origins, gene duplications in eukaryotic nuclear genome evolution, role of lateral gene transfer in evolution, and neutral models for the evolution of molecular complexity. Site describes work and bibliographies.

DLC's Molecular Evolution Homepage - The purpose of this page is to provide a resource for people interested in current research being done in molecular evolution, gene expression, and other related fields.

Towards A New Theory Of Evolution - This site explores the possibility that genetic variation and natural selection are two sides of a unitary and simultaneous response to the struggle for existence, as recent experiments at Harvard and elsewhere on bacteria imply.

Symmetry-breaking and Molecular Evolution - Explores the structural relationship between cosmological symmetry-breaking and the form of molecular evolution leading to biological systems on Earth. It thus forms an alternative to historical hypotheses in which the form of biogenesis is believed to be the product of a linked sequence of specific conditions, bridged by stochastic selection processes.

Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution - Journal is dedicated to bringing Darwin's dreamto "have fairly true genealogical trees of each great kingdom of Nature"within grasp. Provides a forum for molecular studies that advance the understanding of phylogeny and evolution.

Evolution - International journal of organic evolution, published by The Society For the Study of Evolution to promote study of organic evolution and the integration of allied fields.

Journal of Human Evolution - Aimed jointly at palaeoanthropological work, covering human and primate fossils, and at comparative studies of living species.

The Evolutionist - An internet-only magazine carrying interviews with, and the occasional article from, the world's leading evolutionary thinkers. The emphasis is on using modern Darwinism to understand human behaviour.

Infection, Genetics and Evolution - This journal of molecular epidemiology and evolutionary genetics in infectious diseases (MEEGID) is a peer-reviewed journal, affiliated to the successful MEEGID congresses and society.

MedBioWorld Evolutionary Biology and Biodiversity Journals - Direct links to the main pages of journals specializing in evolutionary biology and related sciences.

Journal of Evolutionary Biology - Bimonthly, peer-reviewed, international journal on micro- and macro-evolution.

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