Web Sites

The following web sites have information about evolution and teaching science.

Evolution and Nature of Sciences Institute (ENSI)
ENSI contains lessons on nature of science, evolution, origin of life plus other resources and links.

The Evolution of Primate Intelligence
Scott Rifkin explores the origin of intelligence in us and our relatives.

Evolution on the Web for Biology Students
Robert Gendron’s site for his biology students contains links to good online evolution resources.

Handprint: Ancestral Lines
Linked from this page are documents summarizing the hominid fossil record and hypothesized lines of human evolution from 5 million years ago to the present.

Harvard University's evolution site
The Harvard University evolution site provides a rich assortment of links to evolution sources.

Human Evolution: The Fossil Evidence in 3D
University of California Santa Barbara's online 3D gallery of skulls of modern primate relatives and fossil ancestors of humans (extremely cool).

JSTOR's Evolution resources
An online, searchable version of the journal Evolution.

Open Directory Project evolution site
The Open Directory Project is a huge directory to the web and provides many evolution resources.

The Tree of Life
This University of Arizona site contains information about the diversity of organisms on Earth, their histories, and their relationships to one another.

The Extinction Files
This BBC's educational web site includes overviews of the major mass extinctions and proposed causes.

Fossil Hominids: The Evidence for Human Evolution
This section of the Talk.Origins web site summarizes the current scientific thinking about human evolution and presents the fossil evidence and an illustrated timeline.

The Hall of Human Ancestors
This site provides QuickTime Virtual Reality movies of fossil skulls in the Smithsonian's collection.

Becoming Human: Paleoanthropology, Evolution and Human Origins
This site, developed by the Institute of Human Origins provides an interactive documentary about human evolution. Macromedia Flash and a high speed connection are needed for viewing.

When the antibiotics quit working...
This site hosted by the Why Files explains how humans have effectively "selected for" resistant strains of bacteria and suggests how we may be able to slow their evolution.

National Center for Science Education (NCSE)
The National Center for Science Education defends the teaching of evolution against sectarian attack.

The Talk.Origins Archive
The Talk.Origins Archive is a collection of articles and essays, most of which appeared on talk.origins, a Usenet newsgroup for the discussion and debate of biological and physical origins.

Talkdesign.org
This web site, a sub-site of TalkOrigins.org, is a response to the "Intelligent Design" movement of creationism.

The Digital Library of Earth Systems Science
This site provides access to quality teaching resources about the Earth system.

Evolution
This site provides a comprehensive suite of free educational resources to expand student understanding of evolution and the nature of science. Presented by WGBH and Clear Blue Sky Productions.

Issues in Evolution - ActionBioscience.org
This web site provides articles by scientists, science educators, and science students on issues related to evolution. Presented by the American Institute of Biological Sciences.