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Covering the history of natural history and evolution. An exploration of the wonder and complexity of our universe and our shared natural heritage. And then some...
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Evolution: Education and Outreach - New Edition Online
The newest edition of Evolution: Education and Outreach is now online: Editorial Mick Wycoff PDF (53.8 KB)HTML Articles: How Can English Tell the Story? Douglas Reed Eldredge PDF (70.4 KB)HTML Becoming Modern Homo sapiens Ian Tattersall PDF (10...
Malaria: Evolving (or manipulated by a compassionate God?)
Every year malaria kills almost a million children annually. The Understanding Evolution site has an new page on Malaria and how it is changing in response to our medical treatments: Malaria infects more than 250 million people a year and kills almos...
Teaching the Controversy
-- It's only Micro-Gravity ...
The Whirlpool of Life
A new blog is online, dealing with a holistic approach toward attaining a sustainable earth:We must educate our children differently, fostering bonds with nature and with place, as well as a desire to live in harmony with those places. Far from passi...
Evolution of Evolution from the National Science Foundation
The National Science Foundation has a new interactive web page about the evolution of evolution. From the press release: Going wide and deep, Evolution of Evolution: 150 Years of Darwin's "On the Origin of Species" provides a uniquely sweeping, at-a-...
Cold-blooded Goats?
The fossil remains of a prehistoric goat-like artiodactyl that once lived on Mediteranean islands over 1.5 million years ago provides evidence of how some large mammals may have survived in resource-poor ecosystems. Myotragus, a Plio-Pleistocene bov...
A New Sauropodomorph Described
A species of a group of dinosaurs related to the Sauropods has been discovered in South Africa. The Sauropods, which include the popularly known 'Brontosaurus' (now correctly known as Apatosaurus), are known to have had bi-pedal ancestry due to the s...
The Evolution of Charles Darwin on CBC
Beginning this Wednesday on CBC Radio One: The Evolution of Charles Darwin.From the Ideas website: ...
Becoming Human Be Coming Soon.
An interesting documentary series starting next week - Tuesdays, Nov. 3-17, 8PM on NOVA.Explosive new discoveries that are transforming the picture of how we became human.How did we become "human?" NOVA's new three-part special investigates explosive...
LOST: One Ancestor
Dang! I've lost an ancestor, and I never had many to begin with.... A new research paper has revealed that the famed 'Ida' fossil, Darwinius masillae, was not an ancestor of man after all, but an early branch of a sub-order that today includes lemu...
Teaching Evolution in the Classroom
The Journal of Effective Teaching has produced a special issue on teaching evolution in the classroom - free online: Journal of Effective Teaching Volume 9, Issue 2, September 2009 Special Issue - Teaching Evolution in the Classroom Full Iss...
Thus, From the War of Nature...
"It is no accident that we see green almost wherever we look. It is no accident that we find ourselves perched on one tiny twig in the midst of a blossoming and flourishing tree of life; no accident that we are surrounded by millions of other speci...
Dawkins on Saddles and Domes - Video
Richard Dawkins explains how and why the Giant Tortoises of Galapagos evolved on each of the different islands. He shows how the different shell shapes evolved to help the tortoises adapt to environments on the different islands....
Charles Darwin Week in Holland
The Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences and the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research have joined together to celebrate the 200th anniversary of Charles Darwin's birth and the 150th anniversary of the publication of On the Orig...
Darwin's Darkest Hour on Nova
Nova, PBS and National Geographic and will be presenting Darwin's Darkest Hour: In 1858 Charles Darwin received a letter from naturalist Alfred Wallace, explaining his own theory of evolution. This was the trigger event that led to the publication o...
Darwin's Legacy at Academic Earth
Academic Earth and Stanford University are presenting a series of free lectures on the legacy of Charles Darwin:Course Description: "Light will be thrown..." With these modest words, Charles Darwin launched a sweeping new theory of life in ...
Teaching Evolution: Darwin's Legacy
The British Council has provided free educational resources for children to coincide with their Darwin Now exhibition. There is material available for the ages of 7 to 18, and teacher guidance sheets are included. Here is the list of student and teac...
The Greatest Show on Earth - Video
Richard Dawkins gives an introduction to his new book "The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution." He explains why this book was necessary, and what readers can expect from this highly-anticipated work. The book is available now in the U...
Teaching Evolution: Classification and Relationships
Some people lack the proper scientific background to understand why evolution is based on good science. ENSI (Evolution & the Nature of Science Institutes) has provided a number of resources suitable for high school (and some junior high) biolo...
Natural Selection - Conditions and Modes
Greg Laden has two posts explaining the conditions for, and the modes of, natural selection. In the first post, The Three Necessary and Sufficient Conditions of Natural Selection, Greg gives examples of some definitions of natural selection and expl...
Evolution: Education and Outreach - on Teaching Evolution.
The September 2009 edition of Evolution: Education and Outreach (Volume 2 Number 3) is now available free on the SpringerLink web:Click on a line below to go directly to that article:EditorialWhy I Teach EvolutionEvolution in Biology Education: Spar...
Teach Evolution in Biology
Douglas Futuyma, speaking at the 2nd Evolution, Science and Education Symposium, Turkey (May 23-24, 2009).On teaching evolution and the nature of science:II. Evrim, Bilim ve Eğitim Sempozyumu - D. J. Futuyma from Universite Konseyleri on Vimeo.Thank...
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Photo Album - Guinea Fowl
Helmeted Guinea Fowl (Numida meleagris) portraits, as photographed at the Calgary Zoo, Alberta.Charles Darwin communicated with many people all over the world seeking evidence to bolster his theory of natural selection. One of his correspondents was ...
Eugenie Scott on Science Communication
Eugenie Scott of the National Center for Science Education speaks on the need for the careful use of language when communicating evolution:[We need to] help the public understand that the nature of scientific explanations is to change with new inform...
Creation/Evolution Journal Online
The National Center for Science Education has the 1980 to 1996 editions of the Creation/Evolution Journal free online. You can download entire issues as pdf's or in some cases, individual articles. For example, the first edition from the summer of 19...
Darwin Educational Material at ARKive
The British Council's Darwin Now initiative and ARKive:Images of Life on Earth have provided educational materials on Darwin and Evolution. From the ARKive website:ARKive's new education materials have been supported by the British Council's Darwin N...
Toofless Avian Ancestor
A new fossil bird from the Lower Cretaceous lacustrine deposits of the Jiufotang Formation in Liaoning, northeast China is described. Zhongjianornis yangi is the earliest bird yet found that completely lacks teeth. From the abst...
Sir David Attenborough Reads Alfred Russel Wallace
Sir David Attenborough reads from Alfred Russel Wallace's 1869 book "The Malay Archipelago" in Attenborough's 1996 BBC special "Attenborough in Paradise". ...
Beccaloni on Wallace's Trail
The Guardian has an interesting article on Dr. George Beccaloni's travels as he follows Alfred Russel Wallace's footsteps in Indonesia:Beccaloni, a 41-year-old British evolutionary biologist with London's Natural History Museum, is on a quest to retu...
