Resources
Related Section of Book | Website | Description |
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1.3.3 Darwin’s reception | The Huxley file | A page about Thomas Henry Huxley |
3.14 Modern “scientific creationsm” | National Center for Science Education | Page concerned with defending the teaching of evolution in public schools |
Box 4.1 Evolving fisheries | Conover Fish Ecology Laboratory | Webpage of one of the researchers whose work is discussed in Box 4.1 |
7.6 Evolutionary rate and functional constraint | The consurf server | Online program for identifying funtional regions in proteins, by amino acid conservation |
12.1.3 Sex can accelerate the rate of evolution 14.3.1 Laboratory experiments on speciation |
William Rice | Webpage of one of the researchers whose work is discussed in sections 12.1.3, 14.3.1 and 14.3.2 |
12.1.4 Is sex maintained by group selection: ancient asexuals | Matt Meselson | Webpage of one of the researchers whose work is discussed in section 12.1.4 |
15.9 Statistical techniques of molecular phylogenetic inference | Phylogeny programs | Felsenstein webpage, about and linking to many phylogeny programs |
16.6.3 Phylogenies and taxonomic ranking | Phylocode | A proposed new system of taxonomic nomenclature. |
17.5 Local adaptive radiations occur on island archipelagos | Losos lab home page | Webpage of one of the researchers whose work is discussed in section 17.5 |
18.5 Evolution of land plants | International Organisation of Palaeobotany: Plant fossil record | Database of the plant fossil record (not confined to land plants) |
18.6.2 Mammal evoluiton | Eurasian terrestrial Neogene fossil mammals | An interactive database |
23.4 and |
Fossil record 2 | The fossil record 2 page can be used to analyse extinction and species diversity patterns, among other things |
http://www.blackwellpublishing.com/journals/ede/
Evolution and Development Journal
Evolution and Development Journal
http://www.blackwellpublishing.com/journals/jeb/
Journal of Evolutionary Biology
Journal of Evolutionary Biology
http://www.blackwellpublishing.com/
Blackwell Publishing website.
Blackwell Publishing website.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/evolution/
Webpage of PBS series on evolution
Webpage of PBS series on evolution
http://www.sciencegems.com/life.html#5
Frank Potter’s science gems: evolution.
Weblinks, organized by academic level, from Kindergarten to research-science
Frank Potter’s science gems: evolution.
Weblinks, organized by academic level, from Kindergarten to research-science