CHAPTER 10: The Theory
of Evolution
- Birds & DNA: Convergent Evolution
- Take a look at this page to discover how classifying birds
on appearance alone can lead scientists in the wrong direction.
- Biodiversity
- This Web site from the World Resources Institute offers links
on a variety of subjects from genetic diversity and forest resources
to the Endagered Species Act and Conservation Guidelines.
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- The Origin of Species
- Read the book that started it all! Charles Darwin's book
in its entirety is presented on this site.
- Evolution: Theory and History
- Dozens of people paved the way for Darwin's theory, and countless
others have expanded on it. Here are the profiles of some of
Darwin's contemporaries as well as a few thinkers who preceded
and followed him through history.
- The Spice Islands Voyage
- Naturalist Alfred
Russel Wallace hit upon the idea of natural selection at
about the same time Darwin did. Retrace his inspirational journey
through Southeast Asia at this Web site. The background section
has a few excerpts from Wallace's book The Malay Archipelago.
- Darwin's Theory of Evolution by Natural Selection
- These lecture notes from the University of Arizona describe
the thinkers who influenced Darwin's theory as well as real-life
instances of natural selection.
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- Morphing Embryos
- The Nova special "Odyssey of Life" gave us all
a look at something we don't get to watch every day--embryological
development. Here are video clips from this ground-breaking documentary
of human, pig, chicken, and fish development.
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- Score One for Punk Eek
- Read this article from Scientific American on how
bacteria pushed through the human equivalent of 60,000 years
of evolution and struck a blow for the theory of punctuated equilibrium.
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- Hardy-Weinburg Equilibrium Simulator
- This simulator shows how allele frequencies are affected by genotype survival rates, initial allele percentage, population size, and time. Play with the parameters to generate graphs of different situations.
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