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Population Genetics, Microevolution
Origin of Life
  Taxonomy, Phylogenetics

 

Basics, Introductions, Hyperlinks

PBS.org Nature: Triumph of Life - Evolution & Brain Power
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/nature/triumphoflife/episode5.html

BioChemLinks: Evolution and Ecology
http://biochemlinks.com/bclinks/bclinks.cfm
 
Evolution — Historical development of theories
http://library.thinkquest.org/19926/java/library/bios/index.htm
 
Evolution Articles — 32 complete topics concerning evolution. Great website
http://library.thinkquest.org/19926/java/library/article/index.htm
 
Evolution: Described, Explained
http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/evolution-definition.html
 
Evolution Exploration — hyperlinks  
http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/history/evolution.html
 
Evolution: Glossary — Extensive terms defined
http://library.thinkquest.org/19926/java/library/glossary/index.htm
 
Evolution, Introduction, Overview — Definitions, misconceptions - extensive
http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/faq-intro-to-biology.html
 
Evolution Library — Articles, biographies, timelines, glossary, etc.
http://library.thinkquest.org/19926/java/library/
 
Evolution, Nature of Science
http://www.indiana.edu/~ensiweb/
 
Evolution: Patterns — Sequential, divergent, convergent, parallel and coevolution
http://library.thinkquest.org/19926/java/library/article/02a.htm
 
Evolution Position Statement — National Association of Biology Teachers
http://www.nabt.org/Evolution.html
 
Evolution and Society I — Darwinism, Eugenics, Controversies  
http://library.thinkquest.org/19926/text/tour/31.htm
 
Evolution and Society II — Monkey trial, ACLU. Broadway mythology
http://library.thinkquest.org/19926/text/tour/32.htm
 
Evolution and Society III — Creationism, spirituality and questions  
http://library.thinkquest.org/19926/text/tour/33.htm
 
Evolution and Society IV — Catastrophism: When the Worlds Collide
http://library.thinkquest.org/19926/text/tour/34.htm
 
Evolution: Teaching — Position statement: Nat. Assoc. Bio. Teachers
http://www.nabt.org/evolution.html
 
Evolutionary Theory I — PreDarwin
http://library.thinkquest.org/19926/text/tour/30.htm
 
Evolutionary Theory II — Post Darwin
http://library.thinkquest.org/19926/text/tour/30.htm
 
Evolution Tour — Extensive topics with hyperlinks
http://library.thinkquest.org/19926/text/tour/contents.htm
 
Evolution Update — News, feature articles, and bestselling books
http://www.geocities.com/CapeCanaveral/Lab/7111/
 
Evolution: Voices For — Position statements by science organizations
http://www.aaas.org/SPP/DSPP/DBSR/Voices/voicetoc.htm
 
Evolution: What Is It?
http://library.thinkquest.org/19926/text/tour/00.htm
 
Firefly Signal Evolution — Bioluminescence
http://lifesci.ucsb.edu/~biolum/forum/mbranham1.html
 
Galapagos: Recent Expedition — Galapagos revisited. Hyperlinks
http://www.terraquest.com/galapagos/
 
History of Life
http://conbio.rice.edu/vl/search/vl-search.cfm?searchtype=comp&categories=ANY&keywords=HISTORY+OF+LIFE&ChunkSize=20&RefDoc=browse
 
Leakey Foundation - The Leakey Family - Most famous Anthropologists
http://leakeyfoundation.org
Major Misconceptions about Evolution — Problem with creationism
http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/faq-misconceptions.html
 
Microevolution Definitions
http://www.okstate.edu/artsci/zoo_home/zoo_lrc/1114www/evolutio/microevo.htm
 
Natural Selection: Advanced
http://library.thinkquest.org/19926/text/tour/10.htm
 
Natural Selection, Illness — Darwinian Medicine
http://wsrv.clas.virginia.edu/~rjh9u/darwmed.html
 
Natural Selection: Introduction
http://library.thinkquest.org/19926/text/tour/01.htm 
 
Plant Evolution Adaptations to land (See adaptations on the Ecology Page)
http://fig.cox.miami.edu/Faculty/Tom/bil160/12_notes.html
 
Pope Accepts Theory of Evolution
http://www.calvarysac.org/popedarwin.html
 
Radioactive Dating
http://library.advanced.org/3471/radioactive_dating.html
 
Radioactive Dating: Potassium Argon I
http://ukdb.web.aol.com/hutchinson/encyclopedia/56/M0032356.htm
 
Radioactive Dating: Potassium Argon II
http://www.anthro.mankato.msus.edu/archaeology/dating/dat_ka.html
 
Radiocarbon Dating — 15 hyperlinks
http://c14.sci.waikato.ac.nz/webinfo/
 
 
Evidence of Evolution
Evidence for Evolution — Menu with hyperlinks
http://advlearn.lrdc.pitt.edu/belvedere/materials/Evolution/evidence.htm
 
Comparative Anatomy
http://library.thinkquest.org/19926/text/tour/22.htm
 
Comparative Embryology
http://library.thinkquest.org/19926/text/tour/23.htm
 
Fossils and the Fossil Record
http://library.thinkquest.org/19926/text/tour/20.htm
 
Geographic Distribution
http://library.thinkquest.org/19926/text/tour/21.htm
 
Homologous Structures
http://tidepool.st.usm.edu/crswr/homologousstructs.html
 
Homologous, Analogous, Vestigal Structures
http://www.okstate.edu/artsci/zoo_home/zoo_lrc/1114www/evolutio/companat.htm
 
Molecular Biology
http://library.thinkquest.org/19926/text/tour/24.htm
 
Evolution, Theories and Concepts
Biodiversity: Evolution of
http://www.ai.mit.edu/people/cmaley/dissertation.html
 
Darwin
http://advlearn.lrdc.pitt.edu/belvedere/materials/Evolution/darwin.htm
 
Darwin: Biography — Very extensive
http://www.csuchico.edu/~curban/Darwin/DarwinSem-S95.html
 
Darwin's Finches
http://www.kdsi.net/~dicke520/research/df.html
 
Darwin's Voyage of the Beagle I
http://www.biology.com/visitors/ae/voyage/introduction.html
 
Darwin's Voyage of the Beagle II
http://www.ucr.edu/h-gig/maps/beagle1.html
 
Darwin-Wallace Evolution Paper
http://www.inform.umd.edu/PBIO/darwin/darwindex.html

Endosymbiosis: Evolution of Life — Introduction
http://www-personal.umich.edu/~bhacker/endo.html
 
Endosymbiotic theory — Chloroplasts and mitochondria
http://www.mrs.umn.edu/~goochv/CellBio/lectures/endo/endo.html
 
Endosymbiotic Theory: Margulis
http://dekalb.dc.peachnet.edu/~pgore/students/w96/joshbond/intro.htm
 
Eve Controversy — Tracing human origins through mitochondrial DNA
http://sciboard.louisville.edu/news/scinews/bioevo/eve.htm
 
Evolution and Asexual Reproduction
 
http://library.thinkquest.org/19926/text/tour/17.htm
 
Evolution and Biodiversity in California
http://ceres.ca.gov/ceres/calweb/biodiversity/evolution.html
 
Evolution: Major Themes
http://www.nap.edu/readingroom/books/evolution98/
 
Evolution: Modern View
http://gened.emc.maricopa.edu/Bio/BIO181/BIOBK/BioBookEVOLII.html
 
Evolution: Protein Sequences and Function — Conservative vs. variable proteins
http://alpha2.bmc.uu.se/~lars/biowww/Proteinevol.html
 
Evolution: Teaching of — NABT position statement
http://www.aaas.org/SPP/DSPP/DBSR/Voices/EDUCATIO/NABT_TEA.htm
 
Evolutionary Theory: Historical Development
http://gened.emc.maricopa.edu/Bio/BIO181/BIOBK/BioBookEVOLI.html
 
Evolution: Theory and History
http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/history/evolution.html
 
Gaussian Plume Model
http://www.ce.utexas.edu/prof/maidment/risk/lecture/ln3979.html
 
Hominid Species — All species discussed plus hyperlinks
http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/homs/species.html
 
Human Evolution
http://gened.emc.maricopa.edu/Bio/BIO181/BIOBK/BioBookHumEvol.html
 
Huxley: Darwin's Bulldog
http://aleph0.clarku.edu/huxley/guide4.html
 
Huxley: Evolution's Mouthpiece — Darwin's bulldog
http://www.inform.umd.edu/PBIO/darwin/darwindex.html
 
Lamarck, Jean-Baptiste
http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/history/lamarck.html
 
Lyell, Charles — Darwin's mentor
http://www.anthro.mankato.msus.edu/information/biography/klmno/lyell_charles.html
 
Macroevolution Theories
http://library.thinkquest.org/19926/text/tour/19.htm
 
Malthus
http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/history/malthus.html
 
Modern Mechanisms of Evolution
http://advlearn.lrdc.pitt.edu/belvedere/materials/Evolution/modern.htm
 
Natural Selection — Basics
http://advlearn.lrdc.pitt.edu/belvedere/materials/Evolution/select.htm
 
Natural Selection: Mechanism and Kinds
http://www.tulane.edu/~guill/natural_selection.html
 
Origin of Species — Notes: barriers, isolation, etc.
http://www.sc2000.net/~czaremba/explanations/originsp.html
 
Plant Evolution: Ordovician through Middle Devonian periods
http://www.britannica.com/bcom/eb/article/8/0,5716,115118%2B2,00.html
 
Plants: Evolution I — Land adaptations
http://curriculum.calstatela.edu/courses/builders/lessons/less/les8/Vles8.html
 
Plants: Evolution II — Land adaptations
http://curriculum.calstatela.edu/courses/builders/lessons/less/les8/Vles8r.html
 
Plant Evolution Notes
http://fig.cox.miami.edu/Faculty/Tom/bil160/12_notes.html
 
Primate Evolution — Extensive notes
http://www.sc2000.net/~czaremba/explanations/primate.html
 
Punctuated Equilibrium
http://www.mc.maricopa.edu/anthro/origins/Random.html
 
Reproduction: Sexual — An evolutionary conundrum
http://gales.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~gep98r/third.html
 
Reproduction: Sexual vs. Asexual — Value of sexual and asexual reproduction
http://www.sciencenet.org.uk/slup/CuttingEdge/Apr00/sex.html
 
Selection Pressures, Modes
http://taggart.glg.msu.edu/isb200/select.htm
 
Spontaneous Generation I
http://www.genesispark.com/genpark/spongen/spongen.htm

Spontaneous Generation II
http://people.ne.mediaone.net/haasj/Origin%20of%20Life/spontaneous_generation.html

Spontaneous Generation III
http://people.ne.mediaone.net/haasj/Origin%20of%20Life/spontaneous_generation.html

Spontaneous Generation IV
http://www.accessexcellence.com/AB/BC/Spontaneous_Generation.html
 
Theory and History
http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/history/evolution.html
 
Variation in Species — Factors reducing
http://www.okstate.edu/artsci/zoo_home/zoo_lrc/1114www/evolutio/redusvar.htm
 
Variation in Species — Factors increasing
http://www.okstate.edu/artsci/zoo_home/zoo_lrc/1114www/evolutio/prodvar.htm
 
 
Fossil Records
Bird Evolution I — Fossil record of Aves
http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/diapsids/birds/birdfr.html
 
Bristlecone Pine - Oldest living organism
http://www.sonic.net/bristlecone/intro.html
 
Elephant Evolution
http://elephant.elehost.com/About_Elephants/Stories/Evolution/evolution.htmlSU
 
Evolution Timelines — Earth history: eras, periods, and epochs
http://library.thinkquest.org/19926/java/library/timelines/index.htm
 
Fossil Record
http://www.ultranet.com/~jkimball/BiologyPages/G/GeoEras.html
 
Fossil Record of theVertebrates
http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/vertebrates/vertfr.html
 
History of Life: Fossil Record
http://www.ultranet.com/~jkimball/BiologyPages/G/GeoEras.html
 
Hominid Development: Part I
http://library.thinkquest.org/19926/text/tour/27.htm
 
Hominid Development: Part II, Discovery     
http://library.thinkquest.org/19926/text/tour/28.htm
 
Hominid Species
http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/homs/species.html
 
Horse Evolution I — Hyracotherium ---> Modern Horse
http://www.acmecity.com/looneytunes/looney/218/
 
Horse Evolution II — Extensive information and hyperlinks
http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/horses.html
 
Mass Extinctions
http://www.bagheera.com/clasroom/spotlite/spmass.htm
 
Primate Evolution
http://www.sc2000.net/~czaremba/explanations/primate.html
 
Radioactive Dating
http://library.advanced.org/3471/radioactive_dating.html
 
Radioactive Dating: Potassium Argon I
http://ukdb.web.aol.com/hutchinson/encyclopedia/56/M0032356.htm
 
Radiocarbon Dating — 15 hyperlinks
http://www.c14dating.com/
 
 
Geologic Eras, Ages Color
Evolution Timelines — Earth history: eras, periods, and epochs
http://library.thinkquest.org/19926/java/library/timelines/index.htm
 
Geologic History of the Earth — Periods, age, notes
http://www.sc2000.net/~czaremba/explanations/geologic_time.html
 
Geologic Eras, Periods — Hyperlinked periods with events, etc.
http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/help/timeform.html
 
 
Population Genetics, Microevolution
Competitive Exclusion Principle (Gause) — Information and laboratory exercise http://ecology.tiem.utk.edu/~gross/eeb507/ecobeak/patchyhabitat.html
 
Evolution Patterns — Sequential, divergent, convergent, parallel, coevolution
http://library.thinkquest.org/19926/text/tour/18.htm 
 
Founder Effect
http://tidepool.st.usm.edu/crswr/founder.html
 
Founder Effect and Speciation
http://www.utm.edu/~rirwin/391FoundChromSpn.htm
 
Gaussian Plume Model — Competitive Exclusion Model
http://www.ce.utexas.edu/prof/maidment/risk/lecture/ln3979.html
 
Gene Flow
http://library.thinkquest.org/19926/text/tour/08.htm
 
Gene Frequencies I
http://library.thinkquest.org/19926/text/tour/11.htm
 
Gene Frequencies: Selection — For and against homozygous and heterozygous organisms
http://library.thinkquest.org/19926/text/tour/11.htm
 
Gene Frequencies: Stochastic Force Influences
http://www.wsu.edu/~mmorgan/gencb511f98/drift/node1.html#SECTION00013000000000000000
 
Gene Pool and Heridity
http://library.thinkquest.org/19926/text/tour/03.htm
 
Gene Pools
http://library.thinkquest.org/19926/text/tour/03.htm
 
Genetic Drift
http://library.thinkquest.org/19926/text/tour/09.htm
 
Genetic Drift and Gene Flow — Definition, description, bottlenecks, founder effect, etc.
http://www.tulane.edu/~eeob/Courses/Evolution_Lecture_Notes/lecture12.html#DEF&DESC
 
Genetic Drift, Mutation Rates and Gene Flow
http://www.ebi.calpoly.edu/BioSci/Courses/BIO/BIO414/Mevolution/M10.html
 
Genetic Variability: Measuring
http://library.thinkquest.org/19926/text/tour/05.htm
 
Genetic Variation and Evolution Rate
http://library.thinkquest.org/19926/text/tour/04.htm
 
Hardy-Weinberg Principle
http://redbaron.bishops.ntc.nf.ca/science/Biology/Evolution/Hardy-Wgeneticsnotes.htm
 
Hardy-Weinberg: Genetic Equilibrium I
http://library.thinkquest.org/19926/text/tour/06.htm
 
Hardy-Weinberg: Genetic Equilibrium II
http://www.ultranet.com/~jkimball/BiologyPages/H/Hardy_Weinberg.html
 
Heterozygote, Homozygote Selection, Advantage  
http://library.thinkquest.org/19926/text/tour/03.htm
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Heterozygous Advantage — Cystic fibrosis and sickle cell anemia
http://wsrv.clas.virginia.edu/~rjh9u/hetadv.html
 
Microevolution — Notes, Chi square, definitions
http://www.sc2000.net/~czaremba/explanations/microevolution.html
 
Microevolution Definitions
http://www.okstate.edu/artsci/zoo_home/zoo_lrc/1114www/evolutio/microevo.htm
 
Microevolution Causes, Concepts — Allopatry, sympatry, punctuated equilibria
http://niko.unl.edu/bs101/notes/lecture15.html
 
Mutations and Evolution
http://library.thinkquest.org/19926/text/tour/07.htm 
 
Peppered Moths — England and Unitd States
http://www.wm.edu/wmnews/research/evolution.html
 
Peppered Moths: Evolution Update
http://heg-school.awl.com/bc/companion/dobiol/moths.html
 
Peppered Moths: Second Thoughts IThe Scientist: Short Edited article
http://www.arn.org/docs/wells/jw_pepmothshort.htm

Peppered Moths: Second Thoughts II — Long Unedited article
Shttp://www.arn.org/docs/wells/jw_pepmoth.htm
 
Population Genetics — 20 terms defined
http://www.colorado.edu/epob/epob1210/stpop.html
  Color
Reproductive Isolation and Mechanisms   
http://library.thinkquest.org/19926/text/tour/14.htm
 
Reproductive Isolation and Mechanisms
http://www.thinkquest.org/tqfans.html
 
Selection Pressures
http://library.thinkquest.org/19926/text/tour/12.htm
 
Speciation
http://library.thinkquest.org/19926/text/tour/15.htm
 
Speciation: Measuring Genetic Change
http://library.thinkquest.org/19926/text/tour/16.htm
 
Species: Concept and Meaning
http://library.thinkquest.org/19926/text/tour/13.htm
 
Species and Speciation — Outlined notes
http://gause.biology.ualberta.ca/paszkowski.hp/topic3B.html
 
Variation in Species — Factors reducing
http://www.okstate.edu/artsci/zoo_home/zoo_lrc/1114www/evolutio/redusvar.htm
 
 
Origin of Life
Cell Origins
http://gened.emc.maricopa.edu/bio/bio181/BIOBK/BioBook
 
Eve Controversy — Tracing human origins through mitochondrial DNA
http://sciboard.louisville.edu/news/scinews/bioevo/eve.htm
 
Exobiology — Introduction to extraterrestrial environments
http://www.chem.duke.edu/~jds/cruise_chem/Exobiology/index.html
 
Extraterrestrial Life — An analysis of life forms and conditions. Encyclopedia Britanica
http://www.britannica.com/bcom/eb/article/printable/3/0,5722,109623,00.html
 
Earth and Life Origins I — Discussion, illustrations
http://gened.emc.maricopa.edu/Bio/BIO181/BIOBK/BioBookEVOLI.html
 
Heterotroph Hypothesis
http://www.okstate.edu/artsci/zoo_home/zoo_lrc/1114www/evolutio/bioevol.htm
 
Homochirality — Problem with left handed amino acids
http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/rossuk/question.htm
 
Homochirality: L-Amino Acids, R-Sugars: Origins — Evolutionary puzzle
Hhttp://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/rossuk/question.htm
 
Life on Mars, Venus? — (Scroll down)
http://gened.emc.maricopa.edu/Bio/BIO181/BIOBK/BioBookEVOLI.html
 
Miller (Urey) Experiment I
http://www3.hmc.edu/~clewis/mars/cook.htm
 
Miller (Urey) Experiment II
http://zebu.uoregon.edu/~js/glossary/miller_urey_experiment.html
 
Miller (Urey) Experiment III
http://www.chem.duke.edu/~jds/cruise_chem/Exobiology/miller.html
 
Multicellularity: Origins I — (Scroll down)
http://gened.emc.maricopa.edu/Bio/BIO181/BIOBK/BioBookEVOLI.html
 
Multicellularity, Origins II — Notes 
http://www.sonoma.edu/people/Rank/Bio121/lecture%20notes/121%20Lecture%2006%20fall%2097.html320
 
Origin of Life — Notes, Diagram
http://www.sc2000.net/~czaremba/explanations/origin.html
 
Origins of Life: Astrobiology — 5 pages
http://www.gene.com/AE/BF/bf02/awramik/bf02a1.html
 
Origin of Life: Part I
http://library.thinkquest.org/19926/text/tour/25.htm
 
Origin of Life: Part II
http://library.thinkquest.org/19926/text/tour/26.htm
 
Miller-Urey Experiment
http://www.chem.duke.edu/~jds/cruise_chem/Exobiology/miller.html
 
Terrestrial Communities: Evolution
http://weber.edu/bdattilo/fossils/less_landplant.html
 
 
Taxonomy, Phylogenetics
Animal Diversity — Identification of phylogenetic relationships
http://biog-101-104.bio.cornell.edu/BioG101_104/tutorials/animals.html
 
Coelomate Evolution
http://www.utm.edu/~rirwin/coelomate2.htm
 
Evolutionary Development: Animals — Symmetry, protostomes, deuterostomes
http://www.lehman.cuny.edu/depts/biology/aisemberg/Chapter1b.html
 
Phylogenetics: Resources
http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/subway/phylogen.html
 
Phylogenetic Web Sites
http://loco.biology.unr.edu/archives/rasa/list_of_sites.html
 
Protostomes
http://www.zo.utexas.edu/faculty/sjasper/bio304/protostome.html
 
Protostomes vs. Deuterostomes
http://www.lehman.cuny.edu/depts/biology/aisemberg/Chapter1b.html

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