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| | Review of Icons of Evolution |
 | | After reading the book, I am convinced that Wells does a quite good job of summarising some of the Creationist's criticisms of evolution, but he fails miserably in his task of documenting his claim of fraud and conspiracy amongst scientists to purposefully and systematically misinform the public. | | | The purpose of Icons of Evolution, Jonathan Wells claims, is to encourage people to ask questions about evolution, and to document that "students and the public are being systematically misinformed about the evidence for evolution". | | | Furthermore, the animals of the Cambrian period really are quite a bit different from the modern animals, and there is an ADDITIONAL 500,000,000 years of evolutionary history within the fossil record, of these changes. |
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http://www.cbs.dtu.dk/staff/dave/IconsReview.html
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| | Timeline of evolution - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | This timeline outlines the major events in the development of life on planet Earth. | | | Evolution of the amniotic egg gives rise to the Amniota, reptiles, who can reproduce on land. | | | The oldest fossils reveal evolution of non-vascular plants by the middle to late Ordovician Period (~450-440 m.y.a.) on the basis of fossil spores |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolutionary_timeline
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| | The Age of Spiritual Machines: Timeline |
| | I am very sad to see that the amazing contributions of Nikola Tesla are not included in your timeline with the inclusion of Edison and Marconi. | | | Kurzweil's timeline suggests that tomorrow's "femtohuman class" will be hungry to entertain themselves with new challenges and create a virtual landscape of the dawn of man. They will sit at the controls of this stage and intervene where necessary (to continue the performance). | | | Charles Darwin explains his principle of natural selection and its influence on the evolution of various species in his work Origin of Species. |
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http://www.kurzweilai.net/articles/art0274.html
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| | LS.Evolution |
| | Most discussions in the newsgroup center on the creation/evolution controversy, but other topics of discussion include the orgin of life, geology, biology, catastrophism, cosmology and theology. | | | This is a collection of classroom lessons to help high school biology teachers more effectively teach basic concepts in the area of evolution and the nature of science. | | | Provides general information about evolution of the earth and the biological evolutionary changes. |
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http://www.spsd.net/technology/MASER/SCIENCE/Maser/lsevol.html
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| | Hominid Species |
| | The species here are listed roughly in order of appearance in the fossil record (note that this ordering is not meant to represent an evolutionary sequence), except that the robust australopithecines are kept together. | | | This species is known from a nearly complete cranium nicknamed Toumai, and a number of fragmentary lower jaws and teeth. | | | It may be an ancestor of robustus and boisei, but it has a baffling mixture of primitive and advanced traits. |
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http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/homs/species.html
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| | University at Buffalo Libraries (Science & Engineering) |
| | Plant Trivia Timeline A history of the world told by the time sequence of plants on Earth from the origin of the elements on Earth to the great biology and botnay discoveries and events of modern times. | | | Evolution Curriculum from the 1995 High School Biology Institute provided for teachers of biology and evolutionary biology by the Woodrow Wilson Institute. | | | Evolution: The Game of Life An online simulation gaming experience of evolution. |
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http://ublib.buffalo.edu/libraries/units/sel/bio/evolweb2.html
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| | Kankakee JH POPs |
| | Enter Evolution: Theory and History - topics in evolutionary thought, with biographies of the scientists who built it, and a timeline. | | | Cosmic Evolution - describes a grand synthesis of a long series of changes in the assembly and composition of energy, matter, and life - from the Big Bang to humankind. | | | BBC Education: Evolution - includes the full text of Darwin's "Origin of the Species," extinction files, natural selections, and a fossil roadshow. |
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http://www.k111.k12.il.us/Gifted/jhsgifted/evolution.htm
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| | Volcanic eruptions and meteor impacts increase atmospheric dust and so have a coolong effect, with the infamous impact of 65 million years ago probably leading to the extinction of the dinosaurs and allowing our ultimate evolution from the mammalian speciation that followed. | | | He showed that the evolution of separate species in higher animals depends on the geographic isolation and developed his theory of " peripatric speciation " Commercial site book review, " This is Biology. | | | General Theory of Relativity : Einstein established two theories, the special theory of relativity and the General Theory of Relativity. |
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http://www.ecotao.com/holism/glosfn.htm
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| | Links on Evolutionary Theory and Memetics |
| | newsgroup sci.bio.evolution on the biological theory of evolution ( | | | newsgroup talk.origins: informal discussions about evolution (and creationism!), maintains an extensive Talk.Origins archive discussing different arguments in the evolution-creation debate, and including an especially rich set of FAQs on different | | | Center for the Study of Evolution and the Origin of Life |
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http://pespmc1.vub.ac.be/EVOMEMLI.html
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| | NPR : Timeline: Remembering the Scopes Monkey Trial |
| | The new law is the first in the United States to ban the teaching of evolution. | | | Any other action would be in violation of my ideal of academic freedom -- that is, to teach the truth as guaranteed in our constitution, of personal and religious freedom." | | | The Scopes trial was not the only time that the origins of Earth and humanity were debated in court. |
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http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4723956
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| | Evolution and Ethics (1893) |
| | The sages of Miletus were pronounced evolutionists; and, however dark may be some of the sayings of Heracleitus of Ephesus, who was probably a contemporary of Gautama, no better expressions of the essence of the modern doctrine of evolution can be found than are presented by some of his pithy aphorisms and striking metaphors. | | | Like the doctrine of evolution itself, that of transmigration has its roots in the world of reality; and it may claim such support as the great argument from analogy is capable of supplying. | | | Cosmic evolution may teach us how the good and the evil tendencies of man may have come about; but, in itself, it is incompetent to furnish any better reason why what we call good is preferable to what we call evil than we had before. |
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http://aleph0.clarku.edu/huxley/CE9/E-E.html
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| | Human Evolution [M.Tevfik Dorak] |
| | The strongest piece of evidence for this hypothesis is that distinctive characteristics found today in different geographical regions are also found in H.erectus populations of the same region. | | | In Africa, the species H.habilis, H.erectus and H.sapiens were probably a continuum of chronospecies. | | | They also have larger brain than afarensis and their skull features resemble those of the first Homo species. |
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http://dorakmt.tripod.com/evolution/human.html
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| | Brain Watching--Human Body lesson plan (grades 9-12)--DiscoverySchool.com |
| | Understands the basic concepts of the evolution of species. | | | This is a great site for students of all ages to visit and view brain structure, with great graphics. | | | Produced by the University of Virginia, this site includes numerous resources for teaching foreign languages including professional networking resources. |
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http://school.discovery.com/lessonplans/programs/thebrain-evolution
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| | Evolution Theory and Science |
| | Timeline of Evolutionary Thought: Get a graphical view of some of the key players in evolutionary thought over the last 300 years. | | | The theory of evolution, formalized by Charles Darwin, is as much theory as is the theory of gravity, or the theory of relativity. | | | Unlike theories of physics, biological theories, and especially evolution, have been argued long and hard in socio-political arenas. |
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http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/history/evotheory.html
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| | Intelligent Design? A Special Report from Natural History Magazine |
| | ID proponents accept that some species do change and that Earth is much more than 6,000 years old but reject that evolution accounts for the array of species. | | | The Origin of Species: By Means of Natural Selection or the Preservation of Favored Races in the Struggle for Life, Charles Darwin's classic, written in 1859, is the monumental work that influenced the theory of evolution (Modern Library, 1993 reissue). | | | The infamous August 1999 decision by the Kansas Board of Education to delete references to evolution from Kansas science standards was heavily influenced by advocates of intelligent-design theory. |
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http://www.actionbioscience.org/evolution/nhmag.html
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| | A Science Odyssey: You Try It: Human Evolution |
| | With the 1912 "discovery" of the Piltdown Man, the study of human evolution was sent down a wrong track. | | | The fossilized remains of a species known as Neanderthal had been found, and there was a primitive, human-like skull that had been discovered in Indonesia. | | | At the turn of the century, scientists could only dream about finding the answers to these questions. |
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http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aso/tryit/evolution
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| | Evolution I |
| | However, Buffon vacillated as to whether or not he believed in evolutionary descent, and professed to believe in special creation and the fixity of species. | | | While there have been some changes to the theory since 1859, most notably the incorporation of genetics and DNA into what is termed the "Modern Synthesis" during the 1940's, most scientists today accept evolution as the guiding theory on which modern biology is based. | | | Alfred Russel Wallace, codeveloper of the theory of evolution. |
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http://www.emc.maricopa.edu/faculty/farabee/BIOBK/BioBookEVOLI.html
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| | Evolutionary evidence |
| | The result of this work provides an entirely new reason to believe that evolution has shaped life since the beginning, says Washington University biologist Goodenough. | | | Since the backbone was "invented" by evolution hundreds of millions of years ago, it proved so useful that a huge list of animals descended from the first backboned creatures -- T. rexes and great white sharks, kangaroos and black-footed ferrets, to name a few. | | | It was Georges Cuvier, back in 1817, who first noticed that fossils found in higher layers of rock were more similar to modern creatures than those found in lower layers, or strata. |
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| | Evolution - A-Z - Ring species |
| | A ring species is a situation in which two populations which do not interbreed are living in the same region and connected by a geographic ring of populations that can interbreed. | | | Famous examples of ring species are the herring and lesser black-backed gulls in northern Europe and the Ensatina salamanders of California. | | | A ring species has an almost continuous set of intermediates between two distinct species, and these intermediates happen to be arranged in a ring. |
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http://www.blackwellpublishing.com/ridley/a-z/Ring_species.asp
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| | Handprint : Ancestral Lines |
| | But before technology could have much impact, our evolution was also helped along by the human tendency to migration and the resulting geographic isolation of different hominid groups — documented in Hominid Fossil Sites and Patterns of Homind Dispersal. | | | Human evolution is a puzzle made up of thousands of fossil pieces, and the Chart of Human Evolution (below) shows the major pieces of that puzzle arranged in a likely solution. | | | Skulls are particularly valuable as evidence for the evolution of The Hominid Brain. |
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http://www.handprint.com/LS/ANC/evol.html
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| | Evolution |
| | The Mezozoic Era ends with a major extinction of dinosaurs and about 50% of marine invertebrates, probably caused by an asteroid impact or by massive volcanic activity. | | | The Mezozoic waters of Europe were the probable center of dispersal of the ancestors of the present horseshoe crab species | | | Our current-day opposum is an example of this class of mammal. |
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http://www.horseshoecrab.org/evo/mezo/mezo.html
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| | Sites to use to practice skills needed on the Biology Gateway exam |
| | Human evolution timeline - Select a species of hominid from the human evolution timeline, or from their list, to view a hominid species article and image. | | | Evolution of the Universe - The incredible story of you! | | | Human evolution timeline - move the slider forward and backward to move through time, or roll your cursor over a specimen to learn more about that species |
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http://www.internet4classrooms.com/gateway_biology.htm
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| | History of Psychology 387 BC to Present at AllPsych Online |
| | Charles Darwin published the On the Origin of Species, detailing his view of evolution and expanding on the theory of 'Survival of the fittest.' | | | Sigmund Freud began performing therapy in Vienna, marking the beginning of personality theory. | | | His personality was changed but his intellect remained intact suggesting that an area of the brain plays a role in personality. |
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| | Evolution - A-Z - Biological species concept |
| | "species are groups of interbreeding natural populations that are reproductively isolated from other such groups." | | | The biological species concept explains why the members of a species resemble one another, i.e. | | | When two organisms breed within a species, their genes pass into their combined offspring. |
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| | Biotechnology Timeline 1977 - Present |
| | The sequencing of the genome of ancient organisms, archaea, found in inhospitable climates deep in thermal vents under the sea should greatly advance understanding of the evolution of life on Earth. | | | Analysis of a small meteorite that landed on Antarctica some 15 million years ago has sparked what may be the greatest scientific discovery ever, possible evidence of life on Mars. | | | T-cell researchers determed the three-dimensional structure of these critical components of the immune system. |
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http://www.accessexcellence.org/AB/BC/1977-Present.html
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| | Whether Neanderthal is a separate species, or a member of our species (therefore capable of interbreeding with modern humans) is still debatable. | | | In contrast to the woodland habitat of habilis and earlier hominines, Homo erectus is an out-of-the-woods, open grassland adapted species with the ability to move across large expanses. | | | In this view the "erectus" species name is reserved for just the forms of Indonesia and China. |
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http://www.bigbend.edu/soc/evolution/sequence_of_human_evolution_from.htm
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| | Evolutionary Biology Resources |
| | The Annual Meeting of the Society for the Study of Evolution and the Society of Systematic Biologists | | | Beyond Einstein – evolution and structure of the universe | | | Principles of Evolution - Chapter 16 from Audesirk and Audesirk |
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http://www.anselm.edu/homepage/jpitocch/resevol.html
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| | Science Earth/Space Science Grade 7 |
| | Teacher dictates conditions for a specific species then one element is changed (mutation). | | | Prompt class discussion with open-ended question:How can you explain the phenomena that antibiotics only 40 years old are ineffective today? | | | - Research and report on individual species- change s in them related to predators, pollution, environment that impact on survival rates. |
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http://www.mec.edu/wachusett/scienceearthspacegrade7.htm
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| | Human Evolution Archaeology human origins hominid species images |
| | Take a journey back through time and learn about our human ancestors, the human evolution timeline, and the different hominid fossils that have been found. | | | The discovery of a controversial new skull challenges our current notions of human evolution and sparks debate in the paleoanthropological community. | | | See our hominid ancestors over time and review the different species to get an idea of what they may have looked like. |
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http://www.archaeologyinfo.com
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| | Ed Stephan's Timeline of Sociology |
| | GINI: Demographic Factors in the Evolution of Nations | | | HUTCHESON: Essay on the Nature and Conduct of the Passions and Affections | | | HUTCHESON: An Inquiry into the Origin of our Ideas of Beauty and Virtue |
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