Web Links

5. Macroevolution and the tree of life

The tree of life home page is:
http://tolweb.org/tree/

You can calculate the number of possible trees for any number of taxa in Table 1.3.1 at:
http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/comdesc/section1.html

Box 5.2

Read Steve Gould’s essay about science and religion as non-overlapping magisteria, as he calls them, at:
http://www.stephenjaygould.org/library/gould_noma.html

Answers to creationists are given at:
http://www.talkorigins.org/origins/faqs-creationists.html
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=15-answers-to-creationist
http://www.nature.com/evolutiongems
http://www.talkreason.org/index.cfm

A full explanation of the flagellum story is given at:
http://www.millerandlevine.com/km/evol/design2/article.html

A site that lists press reports, the full transcript of the judge’s decision, and some recent books about the Dover School Board case in 2005 case may be found at:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kitzmiller_v._Dover_Area_School_District

Boxes 5.3 and 5.4

and punctuated equilibrium at:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punctuated_equilibrium

Box 5.5

or download a complete primer, the renowned Complete Cladist manual, from:
http://www.amnh.org/learn/pd/fish_2/pdf/compleat_cladist.pdf

A list of all the available programs, many of them free to download, may be found at:
http://evolution.genetics.washington.edu/phylip/software.html

Box 5.6

More details about fossil DNA, with a detailed presentation on archeological and paleontological applications may be found at:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_DNA

A useful overview of DNA preservation in fossils at:
http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?artid=548952

and mammoth DNA at:
http://www.science.psu.edu/alert/Schuster12-2005.htm
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v456/n7220/full/456330a.html