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- ¿Existe una tendencia a la complejidad?
- ¿Qué causa las tendencias evolutivas?
- A closer look at a classic ring species
- A crustacean sound and light show
- A feeling for the fossil record: an interview with Geerat Vermeij
- A Fisheye View of the Tree of Life
- A Place for Life
- A Pleistocene Puzzle: Extinction in South America
- About
- Aloha, spider style!
- The happy-face spiders
- Different smiles, single species
- A mysterious ratio
- Exploring the color pattern frequencies
- Using molecular data — two lines of evidence
- A surprising coincidence?
- Searching for a new hypothesis
- New hypotheses, rejected
- The Lego® connection
- The predator search image: a look at blue jays
- The current hypothesis
- Credits
- An Almost Arthropod: The Onychophoran
- Ancient fossils and modern climate change
- Angling for evolutionary answers
- Aplicación de la parsimonia
- Aposematic animals
- Artificial selection in the lab
- Battling bacterial evolution
- Bias and the cradle hypothesis
- Big bugs breathing
- Biological species concept
- Biological warfare and the coevolutionary arms race
- Bottlenecks and founder effects
- Bumping molecules
- Call for reinforcements
- Case study: why so many beetles?
- Cómo utilizar el árbol para comprender la historia
- Comparación entre genotipo y fenotipo
- Competing hypotheses about the pace of evolution
- Comprendiendo la complejidad
- Convergent evolution: It’s for the birds
- Cracking a case of mistaken identity: The Strange Shrimp
- Crustaceans: Adapting the arthropod limb layout (text-only version)
- Crustaceans: Living toolboxes (text-only version)
- CSI: Olduvai Gorge
- Cuando la selección sexual se desboca
- Deep Tree
- Del caldo primigenio a las células: El origen de la vida
- Deleterious genes
- Desencadenantes de la radiación adaptativa
- Developmental constraints on evolution
- DNA and Mutations
- Ecological niches (text-only version)
- Effects of genetic drift
- Ejemplos de microevolución
- El cambio hacia la filogenética
- El concepto biológico de especie
- El error de muestreo y la evolución
- El experimento de Lederberg
- Estasis y cambio en los caracteres
- Estudio de un caso: ¿por qué hay tantos escarabajos?
- Evidencias de la Evolución
- Evo trees field guide
- Evo-devo
- Evolución 101!
- Introducción a la evolución
- La historia de la vida: La observación de los patrones
- Mecanismos: Los procesos de la evolución
- Descendencia con modificación
- Los mecanismos del cambio
- Variabilidad genética
- Las mutaciones
- Las consecuencias de las mutaciones
- Las causas de las mutaciones
- Flujo génico
- Sexualidad y recombinación genética
- El desarrollo
- Deriva genética
- Selección natural
- La selección natural en acción
- Eficacia biológica
- La selección sexual
- ¿Por qué la selección sexual es tan poderosa?
- La selección artificial
- La adaptación
- Ideas equivocadas sobre la selección natural
- La coevolución
- Estudio de un caso de coevolución: las ardillas, las aves y las piñas objeto de su deseo
- La microevolución
- La especiación
- La macroevolución
- Las cuestiones fundamentales
- Evolution 101
- An introduction to evolution
- The history of life: looking at the patterns
- Mechanisms: the processes of evolution
- Descent with modification
- Mechanisms of change
- Genetic variation
- Mutations
- The effects of mutations
- The causes of mutations
- Gene flow
- Sex and genetic shuffling
- Development
- Genetic drift
- Natural Selection
- Natural selection at work
- Evolutionary fitness
- Sexual selection
- Why is sexual selection so powerful?
- Artificial selection
- Adaptation
- Misconceptions about natural selection
- Coevolution
- A case study of coevolution: squirrels, birds, and the pinecones they love
- Microevolution
- Speciation
- Macroevolution
- The big issues
- Evolution at different scales: micro to macro
- Evolution under our noses
- Evolving complexity
- Examples of analogy
- Examples of homology
- Examples of microevolution
- Exaptaciones
- Exaptations
- Exoskeleton strength: Crushing calculations (text-only version)
- Exoskeleton strength: Scaling setbacks (text-only version)
- Exploring KT Extinction Patterns
- Extreme adaptations: Eating with your feet
- Fire ants invade and evolve
- Flujo génico: detalles
- From soup to cells: The origin of life
- From the origin of life to the future of biotech
- Gene flow: details
- Genes Hox
- Genetic variation and ethnicity
- Genotype versus phenotype
- GoExtinct
- Habitat and distribution (text version)
- High altitude adaptations
- Hipótesis rivales sobre el ritmo de la evolución
- Homologies are not just anatomy
- How boogieing birds evolved
- How to be an evolutionary engineer
- How to survive a mass extinction
- How your eye works
- Hox genes
- Human evolution
- Image & Use Policy
- Image Library
- Improving access to primary literature in biology through translation
- Insects that inhale
- Interpreting the evidence
- Is there a trend toward complexity?
- It Takes Teamwork: How Endosymbiosis Changed Life on Earth
- Journey of a carbon atom
- Knowing a fossil when you see one
- La búsqueda de los fósiles más antiguos
- La carrera de armamentos
- La datación radiométrica
- La especiación en las plantas
- La evolución humana
- La explosión cámbrica
- La interpretación de las pruebas
- La selección natural en acción: Estudio de un caso
- La supervivencia de los «bastante aptos»
- La Supervivencia del más Astuto
- La teoría neutralista
- Las extinciones masivas
- Las mutaciones son aleatorias
- Learn Evolution
- Lineage-splitting and extinction
- Lines of Evidence
- Los cuellos de botella y el efecto fundador
- Los efectos de la deriva genética
- Los genes deletéreos
- Los tenedores filogénicos
- Macroevolution through evograms
- Making the best of molting
- Mantis shrimp shoulder their evolutionary baggage and bluff
- The arthropods
- The exoskeleton: the good, the bad, and the creepy-crawly
- Growing up in a suit of armor
- The dangers of molting!
- The baggage-laden traveler: history matters
- Making the best of an imperfect situation
- Strategies for avoiding homelessness
- Selecting the strategies, naturally
- We’ve all got baggage
- Credits
- Más información sobre el equilibrio puntuado
- Más información sobre las innovaciones complejas
- Mass extinction
- What are mass extinctions?
- Detecting mass extinctions in the fossil record
- The role of mass extinction in evolution
- Correcting common misconceptions about mass extinctions
- Studying mass extinctions
- Gathering evidence to study mass extinctions
- What causes mass extinctions?
- Volcanic activity and mass extinction
- The Earth’s sixth mass extinction?
- Credits
- Mass extinctions
- Misconceptions about natural selection and adaptation
- Modes of speciation
- Molecular clocks
- More bang for your buck: Little mutations with big effects
- More on complex novelties
- More on punctuated equilibrium
- Mutations are random
- Natural selection at work: a case study
- Natural selection from the gene up
- Nature of science
- Nature or nurture: Evolution and phenotypic plasticity
- Neutral theory: the relative importance of drift and selection
- No todo es adaptación
- Not everything is an adaptation
- On Hox Genes
- OneZoom
- Ontogenia y filogenia
- Ontogeny and phylogeny
- Other species concepts
- Otros conceptos de especie
- Patterns English
- Patterns Spanish
- PBS Evolution Lab
- Peaceful Vancouver Island
- Phylogenetic systematics
- Reading trees: A quick review
- Using trees for classification
- Reconstructing trees: Cladistics
- Using trees
- Using trees to make predictions about fossils: The whale’s ankle
- Using trees to learn about the evolution of complex features: The striped cichlid
- Using trees to make predictions about poorly-studied species: A new drug
- Using trees to learn about the order of evolution: The spider’s web
- Using trees to learn about the evolution of diversity: The beetles’ diet
- A phylogenetic revolution
- Credits
- Privacy Policy
- Putting it in perspective: Climate change yesterday and today
- Qualifying as an adaptation
- Radiometric dating
- Recognizing homologies
- Reconocimiento de homologías
- Relojes moleculares
- Requisitos para ser una adaptación
- Restricciones del desarrollo en la evolución
- Reviewing DNA
- Revisión del ADN
- Sampling error and evolution
- Save the genes! Refuges of genetic variation
- Science Standards Concepts
- Search
- Selección artificial en el laboratorio
- Semejanzas y diferencias (nivel bachillerato)
- La historia de las extremidades
- Las extremidades de los tetrápodos
- La herencia de las homologías
- Las homologías están por todas partes
- No todas las similitudes son homologías
- Convergencia evolutiva
- ¿Cómo evolucionan los caracteres convergentes?
- ¿Homología o carácter convergente?
- ¿Cómo estudiar las homologías y los caracteres convergentes?
- Usemos las homologías para reconstruir las relaciones evolutivas
- Comprueba tu conocimiento
- Créditos
- Semejanzas y diferencias (nivel secundaria)
- Send us feedback!
- Separación de linajes y extinción
- Sex and genetic shuffling: the details
- Sexualidad y recombinación genética: los detalles
- Similarities and differences (high school level)
- The tale of the limb
- The tetrapod limb
- Inheriting homologies
- Homologies are everywhere
- Not all similarity is homology
- Convergent evolution
- How do convergent traits evolve?
- Homology or convergent trait?
- Studying homologies and convergent traits
- Using homologies to reconstruct relationships
- Test your understanding
- Credits
- Similarities and differences (Middle School level)
- Sitemap
- Sitemap
- Speciation in plants
- Stasis and character change
- STEM Escape
- Subscribe to our newsletters
- Support systems
- Survival of the “fit enough”
- Survival of the Sneakiest
- Switching to phylogenetics
- T-rex taste
- Taking advantage of mutation
- Teach Evolution
- Teeth and the hominid tree
- The arms race
- The Arthropod Story
- Introducing the arthropods
- What is an arthropod?
- Meet the Cambrian critters
- Tools for success: The exoskeleton and the jointed limb
- An evolutionary constraint: Small size
- Conclusion: Evolution and the arthropod
- Credits
- The basics of molting
- The Beetle Project
- The Burgess Shale: A fossil jackpot
- The Cambrian explosion
- The Case of the Shrinking Fish
- The ChronoZoom Time Atlas of Earth History and Big History
- The genes that lie beneath
- The hierarchy of selection
- The History of Evolutionary Thought
- Pre 1800
- Comparative Anatomy: Andreas Vesalius
- Observation and Natural Theology: William Harvey & William Paley
- Fossils and the Birth of Paleontology: Nicholas Steno
- Nested Hierarchies, the Order of Nature: Carolus Linnaeus
- Old Earth, Ancient Life: Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon
- The Ecology of Human Populations: Thomas Malthus
- 1800s
- Extinctions: Georges Cuvier
- Early Concepts of Evolution: Jean Baptiste Lamarck
- Developmental Similarities: Karl von Baer
- Biostratigraphy: William Smith
- Uniformitarianism: Charles Lyell
- Discrete Genes Are Inherited: Gregor Mendel
- Natural Selection: Charles Darwin & Alfred Russel Wallace
- Early Evolution and Development: Ernst Haeckel
- Biogeography: Wallace and Wegener
- Fossil Hominids, Human Evolution: Thomas Huxley & Eugene Dubois
- Chromosomes, Mutation, and the Birth of Modern Genetics: Thomas Hunt Morgan
- 1900 to present
- Random Mutations and Evolutionary Change: Ronald Fisher, JBS Haldane, & Sewall Wright
- Starting “The Modern Synthesis”: Theodosius Dobzhansky
- Speciation: Ernst Mayr
- DNA, the Language of Evolution: Francis Crick & James Watson
- Radiometric Dating: Clair Patterson
- Endosymbiosis: Lynn Margulis
- Evolution and Development for the 21st Century: Stephen Jay Gould
- Genetic Similarities: Wilson, Sarich, Sibley, and Ahlquist
- Pre 1800
- The Lederberg experiment
- The Monterey Pine through geologic time
- The nitty gritty on radioisotopic dating
- The nuts and bolts of development
- The relevance of evolution
- Agriculture
- Conservation
- Species preservation and population size: when eight is not enough
- Inbreeding depression
- Low genetic variation
- Salmon and trout restoration: evolutionary perils and successes
- Artificial selection in hatcheries: accidentally domesticating wild fish
- Reuniting evolutionary cousins: steelhead and rainbow trout
- Decisions, decisions!
- Why would we want to preserve biodiversity anyway?
- Currency and conservation: more complex considerations
- A currency and conservation scenario
- Understanding evolution is important
- Medicine
- The rules of natural selection: It’s all about the genes
- The Tree Room
- Evolutionary trees: A primer
- Tree misinterpretations
- Field guide to evolutionary trees
- How to build a tree
- Trees matter
- Trees for teachers
- Trees for museums and zoos
- Tips for tree design
- Tree toolkit
- Should I use a tree?
- What do I want people to learn from my trees?
- What should I consider when designing trees for different audiences?
- How do I find existing trees?
- What taxa should I include on my tree?
- How should I handle scientific uncertainty?
- Should I include characters?
- How can I design my tree to be accessible and understandable?
- How should I integrate my tree into the exhibit?
- How can I evaluate and improve my trees?
- A collection of Tree of Life graphics
- Explore Oregon! Evolutionary trees in a local natural history exhibit
- Evolving Planet: Communicating the entire Tree of Life
- Horse Evolution: Updating natural history museum exhibits with trees
- Megalodon: Illustrating scientific uncertainty in an exhibit about sharks
- Travels in the Great Tree of Life: A focus on evolutionary trees
- STEM Escape: Immersing urban and rural families in a biomedical mystery
- Credits
- Tipos de cambios en el desarrollo
- Tipos de especiación
- Tipos de mutaciones
- ToL Poster
- Too late to join the fight
- Trade-offs and molting: how to get the girl without getting eaten
- Trait matching in cooperative systems
- Translations
- Triggering adaptive radiation
- Turbo-charged evolution
- Types of developmental change
- Types of mutations
- Underwater engineering
- Using parsimony
- Using the tree to understand history
- Using trees to understand plants
- Using trees to uproot HIV
- VenomVenture Bilingual
- VenomVenture English
- VenomVenture Intro
- VenomVenture Spanish
- Visualizing life on Earth
- Introducing the LDG
- Investigation Phase I: Is the LDG real?
- Investigation Phase II: Are the tropics crowded?
- Investigation Phase III: Figuring out who lived where when
- Investigation Phase IV: Why the tropics?
- Birth, death, and relocation
- Coming up with hypotheses
- Tropics as cradle, museum, or destination?
- Evaluating the hypotheses
- Where are species and genera born? Examining the data
- The tropics are a cradle — at least for some marine species
- Testing hypothesis #2: Are the tropics a museum?
- Testing hypothesis #3: Are the tropics a destination?
- Spreading out of the tropics
- An explanation: The tropics are a cradle, a museum, and a biodiversity engine
- Conclusion: Generating more questions
- Credits
- What causes evolutionary trends?
- What is an arthropod?
- What is the intelligent design movement?
- What large teeth you have!
- What makes a petal a petal?
- What’s in a range?
- What’s in a tooth?
- When sexual selection runs away
- Who’s the boss?
- Why the eye?
- Which Way Is Up? Reconstructing Hallucigenia
- A case study: Sickle cell anemia
- Estudio de un caso: la anemia drepanocítica
- Important events in the history of life (text-only version)
Evo in the News
- Menacing mosquitoes: Nature or nurture?
- Are we boosting the evolutionary potential of SARS-CoV-2?
- Familiar sparks for ancient extinctions
- Meteorite impact no picnic for sharks either
- How did dinos get so big…and so little?
- Nature or nurture? In tiger snake evolution it’s complicated…
- Human evolution in response to an ancient pandemic
- Evolution of the plague pandemic
- Evolving altitude aptitude
- Human evolutionary history impacts our COVID-19 risk
- A country weed with city problems
- Shrinking salmon
- Preventing the evolution of a vaccine-resistant COVID strain
- On the evolutionary trail of MRSA
- Omicron and the case of the hidden evolution
- Omicron y el caso de la evolución escondida
- The evolution of tuskless elephants foils poachers, but at a cost
- A decade of change, a decade of Evo in the News
- Pantry staples from the genetic swap meet
- The genetic toolkit for evolving a venomous bite
- Viruses, variation, and vaccines
- Virus, variabilidad y vacunas
- The new coronavirus strains and evolution's "I told you so" moment
- Have long wings, will travel
- La historia evolutiva del ser humano afecta nuestro riesgo de padecer COVID-19
- Is the coronavirus' ability to spread evolving...or not?
- Evolution explains mosquitoes’ taste for human blood
- Tracking COVID-19 outbreaks with evolution
- The deep evolutionary history of the new coronavirus
- Evolution of an outbreak
- A "new mode" of evolution?
- Experimenting with evolution to fight bacteria
- Reconstructing locomotion with fossils, footprints, and... robots?
- New twists on ancient DNA
- 'Puppy-dog eyes' produced by evolution
- How did early mammals chew?
- Another crystal clear snapshot of life in the Cambrian seas
- Whales lose teeth, gain baleen
- One route to lighter skin, two different continents
- And the Nobel goes to...evolution!
- Standing on two feet or four: Switchbacks in dino evolution
- Why vaccines work when drugs no longer do
- Evolution experiments on isolated islands
- Scoring big pharma's match with superbugs
- A warmer world leads to female-biased sea turtle populations
- A New Story of Birds and Beaks
- Urban Evolution
- The evolution behind an agricultural showdown in Arkansas
- Global change drove the evolution of giants
- The bacteria that changed the world
- Predicting the evolution of polio
- Natural selection hidden in modern medicine?
- Genes from our extinct relatives live on in modern humans
- Black widow virus results from evolution, not genetic engineering
- GMOs struggle to stay one step ahead of evolution
- The mutations that make us human
- A field guide for the new Tree of Life
- Super-Mendelian mosquitoes may fight malaria
- Unmuddying the Cambrian waters
- Will evolution doom the cheetah?
- What happens to plants that can't spread their seeds?
- What can we learn about our limbs from the limbless?
- Is there anything truly surprising about Homo naledi?
- Mammals' nocturnal past shapes sun sensitivity
- Avian flu adapts to human hosts
- Killer whales get a fitness boost after their offspring are grown
- We are an island: the evolution of human parasite species
- Want a new drug? Look to evolution
- New fossils are no "missing link"
- Evolving an invasive species
- Ebola and evolution
- Evolution accounts for taste
- Why the Y is here to stay
- Genetic engineering vs. evolution
- Evolutionary history is more than skin deep
- The deep roots of diabetes
- Bottlenecks, BRCA, and Breast Cancer
- Lumping or splitting in the fossil record
- The legless lizards of LAX
- A new old animal
- Antibiotic resistant bacteria at the meat counter
- No more mystery meat
- The recent roots of dental disease
- Influenza, an ever-evolving target for vaccine development
- Grasshoppers change their tune. Is it evolution in action?
- A new look at dinosaur fossils pushes back the evolution of feathered wings
- Acidic oceans prompt evolution
- What comes after mass extinctions?
- Lessons for today in ancient mass extinctions
- Climate change causes loss of genetic diversity
- Evolutionary history in a tiny package
- Hybrid sharks aren't "trying" to adapt
- When fighting leukemia, evolutionary history matters
- An antibiotic that exploits evolutionary history
- The evidence lines up in early mammal evolution
- "Error. Greed does not compute."
- Gender-biased bacteria throw off an evolutionary balance
- Toxic river means rapid evolution for one fish species
- Bad at estimating? Blame evolution
- ¿Eres un mal estimador? La culpa es de la evolución
- Genetic variation helps rescue endangered panthers
- Spreading disease on evolutionary timescales
- Bed bugs bite back thanks to evolution
- Las chinches de cama pican de nuevo gracias a la evolución
- Making sense of ancient hominin DNA
- One small fossil, one giant step for polar bear evolution
- The evolutionary history of jogging
- Speciation in real time
- Especiación en tiempo real
- Fighting the evolution of malaria in Cambodia
- Oxygen as an evolutionary constraint
- Where did all of Madagascar's species come from?
- ¿De donde vienen todas las especies de Madagascar?
- La herencia inoportuna de una especie: riesgo de extinción
- A species' unwelcome inheritance: extinction risk
- Coping with climate change
- Better biofuels through evolution
- Mejores biocombustibles gracias a la evolución
- Sexo, especiación y física subacuática
- Sex, speciation, and fishy physics
- ¡Feliz cumpleaños número 200, Darwin!
- Happy 200th, Darwin!
- ¿Decisiones de conservación difíciles? Pregúntale a la evolución
- Tough conservation choices? Ask evolution
- HIV's not-so-ancient history
- Ghosts of epidemics past
- Evolution down under
- Juego evolutivo de citas y apareamiento
- Evolution's dating and mating game
- Superbug, super-fast evolution
- The new shrew that's not
- Evolution in the fast lane?
- Evolution from a virus's view
- Genealogy enthusiasts mine DNA for clues to evolutionary history
- Another perspective on cancer: Evolution within
- When it comes to evolution, headlines often get it wrong
- Cheating cheetahs prosper
- Evolving conservation strategies
- Seeing the tree for the twigs
- Got lactase?
- A chink in HIV's evolutionary armor
- The other green (r)evolution
- Evolutionary evidence takes the stand
- Quick evolution leads to quiet crickets
- Where species come from
- Quick bites and quirky adaptations
- Musseling in on evolution
- More than morphology
- Warming to evolution
- Hotspots for evolution
- What has the head of a crocodile and the gills of a fish?
- Conserving the kakapo
- Evolution at the scene of the crime
- A fish of a different color
- Tracking SARS back to its source
- Evolution and the avian flu
- "Superweed" discovered in Britain?
- Livestock kick a drug habit
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- carbon chauvinism
- Burgess Shale
- Cambrian Period
- chordates
- vertebrate
- Buckland, William
- Brongniart, Alexandre
- branch rotation
- bottleneck
- book lung
- diffusion
- molecule
- biomass
- biogeography
- biogenic elements
- biodiversity
- biodiversity hotspot
- biochemistry
- bacterium
- single-celled
- base
- astrobiology
- asteroid
- natural selection
- differential reproductive success
- gene-environment interaction
- phenotypic plasticity
- heredity
- RNA
- DNA
- variation
- artificial selection
- arthropod
- exoskeleton
- trilobite
- fossil
- arms race
- archipelago
- appendage
- plesiomorphy
- clade
- common ancestor
- apomorphy
- character
- phylogeny
- anthropologist
- anthropocentric
- antagonistic pleiotropy
- ancestral character state
- convergent evolution
- lineage
- analogy/analogous structure
- homology/homologous structure
- homoplasious
- protein
- amino acid
- altruism
- allopatric speciation
- allometric growth
- allele
- adaptive radiation
- adaptation
- bilateral symmetry
- adapt
- evolution
- abdomen
Teaching Resources
- La Supervivencia del más Astuto
- Extinction vulnerability with Shan Huang, David Jablonski, and Stewart Edie
- Planta al ataque
- Plant on a Rampage
- Semejanzas y diferencias: Comprendamos las homologías y evolución convergente (nivel secundaria)
- Evidencias de la Evolución: La ciencia de la evolución
- Biodiversity loss threatens human well-being
- Extinction with Melissa Kemp and Liz Hadly
- Semejanzas y diferencias: Comprendamos las homologías y evolución convergente (nivel bachillerato)
- The causes of mutation with Molly Przeworski and Felix Wu
- Omicron y el caso de la evolución escondida
- Evo in the news: Omicron and the case of the hidden evolution
- Artificial Selection with Elaine Ostrander and Team
- Sexual Selection with Maydianne Andrade
- Interview: Geerat Vermeij on the Fossil record
- Extinction and diversification - Trilobites and ammonites
- Genetic drift example (4 of 4)
- Genetic drift example (3 of 4)
- Genetic drift example (2 of 4)
- Genetic drift example (1 of 4)
- Pace of evolution hypotheses (4 of 4)
- Pace of evolution hypotheses (3 of 4)
- Pace of evolution hypotheses (2 of 4)
- Pace of evolution hypotheses (1 of 4)
- La historia de la vida: La observación de los patrones
- Mecanismos: Los procesos de la evolución
- Selección natural
- La especiación
- Del caldo primigenio a las células: El origen de la vida
- Un rompecabezas Pleistoceno: Extinctión en América del Sur
- Neutral theory - Selection and drift on scale
- Great Fossil Find
- Evo in the news: Human evolutionary history impacts our COVID-19 risk
- La historia evolutiva del ser humano afecta nuestro riesgo de padecer COVID-19
- Journal Club Toolkit
- Investigating a Deep Sea Mystery
- Mate choice and fitness consequences
- Stabilization of the fig-pollinator mutualism
- Mass extinction
- Selection and evolution with a deck of cards
- Natural Selection & Sexual Selection: An Illustrated Introduction
- Making Cladograms
- Inducing Evolution in Bean Beetles
- Hardy-Weinberg Equilibrium According to Hoyle
- What does it mean to be human?
- Exploring KT extinction patterns
- The complete works of Charles Darwin online
- Microevolutionary change can accumulate into macroevolution
- Macroevolution
- Humans on the tree of life
- Gene expression in different cells
- From soup to cells - The origin of life
- Chemical signals and cell fate
- Cambrian explosion
- Ernst Mayr: Speciation
- Ernst Haeckel: Early evolution and development
- DNA and mutations
- Clair Patterson: Radiometric dating
- Active-learning slides for undergraduate evolution instruction
- Thomas Hunt Morgan: Chromosomes, mutation, and the birth of modern genetics
- ChronoZoom
- Stories from the Fossil Record
- Stomata (3 of 3) Indicators of CO2 and temperature
- Stomata (2 of 3) Tradeoff
- Stomata (1 of 3) Function
- Stickleback Evolution Virtual Lab
- Stephen Jay Gould: Evolution and development for the 21st century
- Spoons, forks, chopsticks, straws: Simulating natural selection
- Speciation: The basics
- Speciation: An illustrated introduction
- Speciation example (5 of 5)
- Speciation example (4 of 5)
- Speciation example (3 of 5)
- Speciation example (2 of 5)
- Speciation example (1 of 5)
- Sounds Around
- Sniff and Guess
- Similarity: Examples of homology
- Similarity: Examples of analogy
- Similarities and differences: Understanding homology and convergent evolution
- Similarities and differences: Understanding homology and convergent evolution
- Sickle Cell (3 of 3) Cell
- Sickle Cell (2 of 3) Protein
- Sickle Cell (1 of 3) Genes
- Two- and ten-minute trees
- Tree thinking challenges
- Tree thinking basics
- Tree of Life poster without images (medium)
- Sequencing Time
- Sampling error
- Ronald Fisher, JBS Haldane, and Sewall Wright: Random mutations and evolutionary change
- Reproduction (6 of 6) Zygote with recombinant genes
- Reproduction (5 of 6) Meiosis, step two
- Reproduction (4 of 6) Meiosis, step one
- Reproduction (3 of 6) Recombination
- Reproduction (2 of 6) Chromosome duplication
- Reproduction (1 of 6) Egg, sperm, and zygote
- Tree of Life poster without images (large)
- Relevance of evolution: Medicine
- Relevance of evolution: Conservation
- Tree of life poster with images (large)
- Relevance of evolution: Agriculture
- Tree of Life
- Regulatory genes
- Reconstruction
- Recognizing homologies - Crocodile/mouse limb bones
- Radiations and extinctions: Biodiversity through the ages
- Punctuated equilibrium (8 of 8) This process would produce the following pattern in the fossil record
- Punctuated equilibrium (7 of 8) Preservation
- Punctuated equilibrium (6 of 8) Expansion and stasis
- Punctuated equilibrium (5 of 8) Reintroduction
- Punctuated equilibrium (4 of 8) No preservation
- Punctuated equilibrium (3 of 8) Strong selection and rapid change
- Punctuated equilibrium (2 of 8) Isolation
- Punctuated equilibrium (1 of 8) Stasis
- Transitional forms - whale evolution
- Toxin resistance in clams
- Timeline of Human Evolution
- Proposing the Theory of Biological Evolution
- Problem-based discussion: Simulations of genetic drift
- Problem-based discussion: Population genetics calculations and Hardy Weinberg
- Problem-based discussion: Natural selection in Darwin's finches
- Preying on Beans
- Predicting evolutionary relationships
- Population genetics, selection, and evolution
- Population genetics slide set
- Polytomy (3 of 3) Rapid speciation
- Polytomy (2 of 3) Lack of knowledge
- Polytomy (1 of 3)
- Phylogenies (3 of 3) Order doesn't matter
- Phylogenies (2 of 3) Left to right
- Phylogenies (1 of 3) Tree-like not ladder-like
- Phylogenetics laboratory: Reconstructing evolutionary history
- Phylogenetics and tree thinking slide set
- Phylogenetic systematics, a.k.a. evolutionary trees
- Peripatric speciation (5 of 5)
- Peripatric speciation (4 of 5)
- Peripatric speciation (3 of 5)
- Peripatric speciation (2 of 5)
- Peripatric speciation (1 of 5)
- Pea taste
- Patterns in macroevolution (5 of 5) Character change
- Patterns in macroevolution (4 of 5) Lineage splitting
- Patterns in macroevolution (3 of 5) Trilobite example
- Patterns in macroevolution (2 of 5) Character change
- Patterns in macroevolution (1 of 5) Stasis
- Parsimony (5 of 5) Comparison of two hypotheses
- Parsimony (4 of 5) All clades and phylogeny
- Parsimony (3 of 5) Amniotic egg clade and phylogeny
- Parsimony (2 of 5) Vertebrate ancestor characters
- Parsimony (1 of 5) Vertebrate character matrix
- Parsimonious explanations for punctuated patterns
- Parasites and pathogens take the leap
- Paleontology Portal
- Pace of evolution (3 of 3) Irregular fossil preservation
- Pace of evolution (2 of 3) Quick jumps
- Pace of evolution (1 of 3) Slow and steady
- Origami Birds
- Natural selection misconceptions diagnostic
- Oh Say, What Can You See?
- Observing Brine Shrimp
- Not Just a Theory
- Nature of science
- Natural selection: The basics
- Natural selection in a test tube
- Natural selection from the gene up: The work of Elizabeth Dahlhoff and Nathan Rank
- Natural selection and evolution of rock pocket mouse populations
- Natural selection and adaptation slide set
- Natural selection - Beetle example
- Natural selection (4 of 4) End result
- Natural selection (3 of 4) Heredity
- Natural selection (2 of 4) Differential reproduction
- Natural selection (1 of 4) Variation
- Names, they are a-changing
- Mutation - DNA
- Mystery Meat
- Mutation (4 of 4) Frameshift
- Mutation (3 of 4) Deletion
- Mutation (2 of 4) Insertion
- Mutation (1 of 4) Substitution
- Mouse fur color
- Monkey opsins
- The TimeTree of Life
- The Natural Selection Game
- The Monterey Pine through geologic time
- The Missing Link
- Molecular genetics of color mutations in rock pocket mice
- Modes of speciation (4 of 4) Sympatric
- Modes of speciation (3 of 4) Parapatric
- Modes of speciation (2 of 4) Peripatric
- Modes of speciation (1 of 4) Allopatric
- Modes of speciation
- Modeling Evolutionary Relationships with Trees
- Mitochondrial genes (2 of 2)
- Mitochondrial genes (1 of 2)
- Misconceptions about natural selection and adaptation
- Minute paper slide set
- Microevolution: The basics
- Microevolution - The size of the sparrow
- Microevolution - Change in gene frequency
- The Making of the Fittest: The Birth and Death of Genes
- Microevolution
- The Making of the Fittest: Natural Selection in Humans
- The Making of the Fittest: Natural Selection and Adaption
- Mechanisms of evolution slide set
- Mechanisms of evolution (4 of 4) Natural selection
- Mechanisms of evolution (3 of 4) Genetic drift
- Mechanisms of evolution (2 of 4) Migration
- Mechanisms of evolution (1 of 4) Mutation
- The great clade race: Zombie Edition
- The genes that lie beneath: The work of Leslea Hlusko
- The Evolution of Flight in Birds
- The Evolution Lab
- The ChronoZoom Time Atlas of Earth History and Big History
- The Checks Lab
- Mechanisms of evolution
- Mealworm Metamorphosis
- McKittrick Fossil Find Classroom Activity
- The Beetle Project: Investigating insects in a warming world
- Mass extinctions - Five major
- Mass extinction
- Textures Are Everywhere
- Mantis shrimp shoulder their evolutionary baggage and bluff
- Malaria
- Testing a hypothesis
- Making 3D phylogenetic trees with mobiles
- Macroevolution: The basics
- Tennis Shoe Detectives
- Teaching the Process of Molecular Phylogeny and Systematics: A Multi-Part Inquiry-Based Exercise
- Taster's Choice
- Lines of evidence: The science of evolution
- Karl Von Baer: Developmental similarities
- Jean Baptiste Lamarck: Early concepts of evolution
- It's All Relative
- It takes teamwork: How endosymbiosis changed life on Earth
- Island biogeography and evolution: Solving a phylogenetic puzzle using molecular genetics
- Investigating Natural Selection
- Investigating Common Descent: Formulating Explanations and Models
- Interpreting the Tracks
- Interactive investigation: The arthropod story
- Inferring Ancient Environments from Fossil Foraminifera
- Inbreeding depression
- In the Dark
- How to survive a mass extinction: The work of David Jablonski
- How Much is a Billion
- How Did Plants Change Our Planet?
- How boogieing birds evolved: The work of Kim Bostwick
- How are humans related to other primates?
- Horizontal gene transfer
- Homologous tetrapod limbs (6 of 6)
- Homologous tetrapod limbs (5 of 6)
- Homologous tetrapod limbs (4 of 6)
- Homologous tetrapod limbs (3 of 6)
- Homologous tetrapod limbs (2 of 6)
- Homologous tetrapod limbs (1 of 6)
- Hominid Cranium Comparison (The "Skulls" Lab)
- History of evolutionary thought
- High altitude adaptations: The work of Emilia Huerta-Sánchez
- Gregor Mendel: Discrete genes are inherited
- Greenhouse effect
- Getting into the Fossil Record
- Genetic variation: The basics
- Genetic drift - Small population
- Genetic drift - Large population
- Genetic bottleneck
- Genes + environment = phenotype
- Gene switches
- Galapagos finch phylogeny
- Using trees to uproot HIV: The work of Satish Pillai
- Using trees to understand plants: The work of Chelsea Specht
- Using pipe cleaners to bring the Tree of Life to life
- From the origin of life to the future of biotech: The work of Andy Ellington
- Francis Crick and James Watson: DNA, the language of evolution
- Form and Function
- Fitness
- Fire ants invade and evolve
- Evolutionary medicine
- Understanding phylogenies (4 of 4)
- Understanding phylogenies (3 of 4)
- Understanding phylogenies (2 of 4)
- Eye Evolution
- Understanding phylogenies (1 of 4)
- Understanding Macroevolution Through Evograms
- Extinction
- Evolutionary trees from the tabloids and beyond
- Evolutionary trees and patterns in the history of life
- Evolution: A progression of scientific thought
- Evolution connection: Transcription and translation
- Evolution connection: The Krebs Cycle
- Evolution connection: Ribosomes
- Evolution connection: Proteins, carbohydrates, and nucleic acids
- Evolution connection: Photosynthesis 2
- Evolution connection: Photosynthesis 1
- Evolution connection: Mitochondria and plastids
- Evolution of human skin color
- Evolution of HIV virus
- Evolution connection: DNA replication
- Evolution at different scales: Micro to macro
- Evolution and the fossil record
- Evolution and Phylogenetic Analysis
- Evolution and health: What is a mismatch disease?
- Evolution and E. coli: Natural selection in a constant environment
- Evolution and Antibiotic Resistance
- Evolution 101
- Evolución 101
- Understanding Geologic Time
- Understanding evolutionary trees
- Understanding evolutionary history: An introduction to tree thinking
- Vertebrate phylogeny with time
- Vertebrate phylogeny with characters
- Evo-devo
- DNA, RNA, Proteins (4 of 4) DNA to Proteins
- DNA, RNA, Proteins (3 of 4) Proteins
- DNA, RNA, Proteins (2 of 4) RNA
- DNA, RNA, Proteins (1 of 4) DNA
- DNA fingerprinting
- Virus evolution and virulence
- Cospeciation (3 of 3)
- Cospeciation (2 of 3)
- Cospeciation (1 of 3)
- DNA structure
- Codon
- Clades (2 of 2) Nested clades
- Clades (1 of 2) Definition
- Causes of speciation - Reduced gene flow
- Causes of speciation - Geographic isolation
- Bottleneck
- Body size over time
- Evo in the news: Where species come from
- Evo in the news: Where did all of Madagascar's species come from?
- Evo in the news: When it comes to evolution, headlines often get it wrong
- Evo in the News: When fighting leukemia, evolutionary history matters
- Evo in the news: What has the head of a crocodile and the gills of a fish?
- Evo in the News: What comes after mass extinctions?
- Evo in the news: Warming to evolution
- Evo in the news: Tracking SARS back to its source
- Evo in the news: Toxic river means rapid evolution for one fish species
- Evo in the news: Tough conservation choices? Ask evolution
- Evo in the news: The recent roots of dental disease
- Visualizing life on Earth: Data interpretation in evolution
- Evo in the news: The other green (r)evolution
- Evo in the news: The new shrew that's not
- Viruses and Host Evolution
- Evo in the news: The legless lizards of LAX
- Evo in the news: The evolutionary history of jogging
- Evo in the news: The evidence lines up in early mammal evolution
- Evo in the news: Superbug, super-fast evolution
- Evo in the news: Spreading disease on evolutionary timescales
- Evo in the news: Speciation in real time
- Evo in the news: Sex, speciation, and fishy physics
- Evo in the news: Seeing the tree for the twigs
- Variations in the clam species Clamys sweetus
- Evo in the news: Quick evolution leads to quiet crickets
- Evo in the news: Quick bites and quirky adaptations
- Evo in the news: Oxygen as an evolutionary constraint
- Evo in the news: One small fossil, one giant step for polar bear evolution
- Evo in the news: No more mystery meat
- Evo in the news: Musseling in on evolution
- Evo in the news: More than morphology
- Evo in the news: Making sense of ancient hominin DNA
- Variation
- Variability and Selection in Natural Populations of Wood Lice
- Evo in the news: Livestock kick a drug habit
- Evo in the News: Lessons for today in ancient mass extinctions
- Evo in the news: Influenza, an ever-evolving target for vaccine development
- Evo in the News: Hybrid sharks aren't "trying" to adapt
- Evo in the news: Hotspots for evolution
- Evo in the news: HIV's not-so-ancient history
- Evo in the news: Happy 200th, Darwin!
- Evo in the News: Grasshoppers change their tune. Is it evolution in action?
- Evo in the news: Got lactase?
- Evo in the news: Ghosts of epidemics past
- Evo in the news: Genetic variation helps rescue endangered panthers
- Evo in the news: Genealogy enthusiasts mine DNA for clues to evolutionary history
- Evo in the news: Gender-biased bacteria throw off an evolutionary balance
- Evo in the news: Fighting the evolution of malaria in Cambodia
- Evo in the news: Evolving conservation strategies
- Evo in the news: Evolving altitude aptitude
- Evo in the News: Evolutionary history in a tiny package
- Evo in the news: Evolutionary evidence takes the stand
- Evo in the news: Evolution's dating and mating game
- Evo in the news: Evolution in the fast lane?
- Evo in the news: Evolution from a virus's view
- Evo in the news: Evolution down under
- Evo in the news: Evolution at the scene of the crime
- Evo in the news: Evolution and the avian flu
- Evo in the news: Coping with climate change
- Evo in the news: Conserving the kakapo
- Evo in the News: Climate change causes loss of genetic diversity
- Evo in the news: Cheating cheetahs prosper
- Evo in the news: Better biofuels through evolution
- Evo in the news: Bed bugs bite back thanks to evolution
- Evo in the news: Bad at estimating? Blame evolution
- Evo in the news: Antibiotic resistant bacteria at the meat counter
- Evo in the news: Another perspective on cancer
- Evo in the news: An antibiotic that exploits evolutionary history
- Evo in the News: Acidic oceans prompt evolution
- Evo in the news: A species' unwelcome inheritance - extinction risk
- Evo in the news: A new old animal
- Evo in the News: A new look at dinosaur fossils pushes back the evolution of feathered wings
- Evo in the news: A fish of a different color
- Evo in the news: A chink in HIV's evolutionary armor
- Evo in the news: "Superweed" discovered in Britain?
- Evo in the News: "Error. Greed does not compute."
- Dogs and Turnips
- Diversity Walk
- Diversity
- Discovering mass extinctions in the fossil record
- Dino-Data
- Differences
- Determining Age of Rocks and Fossils
- Darwin's Great Voyage of Discovery
- CSI: Olduvai Gorge. The work of Jackson Njau
- Coping with Environmental Differences
- Comic strip: Survival of the sneakiest
- Color variation over time in rock pocket mouse populations
- Clipbirds
- Climate Analysis Using Planktonic Foraminifera
- Classification and Evolution
- Chimpanzee Droppings Lead Scientists to Evolutionary Discovery
- Cells within cells: An extraordinary claim with extraordinary evidence
- Candy Dish Selection
- Bringing homologies into focus
- Breeding Bunnies
- Born to Run: Artificial Selection Lab
- Biological warfare and the coevolutionary arms race
- Artificially Selecting Dogs
- Artificial selection of corn
- Artificial selection in the lab (2 of 2)
- Artificial selection in the lab (1 of 2)
- Artificial selection (5 of 5) Fish example
- Artificial selection (4 of 5) Fish example
- Artificial selection (3 of 5) Fish example
- Artificial selection (2 of 5) Fish example
- Artificial selection (1 of 5) Fish example
- Antibiotic resistance
- Anolis Lizards
- Angling for evolutionary answers: The work of David O. Conover
- Ancient fossils and modern climate change: The work of Jennifer McElwain
- Ancient Farmers of the Amazon
- Analogy (2 of 2) Bird and bat wing phylogeny
- Analogy (1 of 2) Bird and bat wing diagrams
- Analogies (3 of 3) Saberteeth
- Analogies (2 of 3) Saberteeth
- Analogies (1 of 3) Saberteeth
- An Antipodal Mystery
- Aloha, spider style! The work of Rosemary Gillespie
- Adaptive radiation
- Allopatric speciation
- Allele and phenotype frequencies in rock pocket mouse populations
- Adventures at Dry Creek
- Adaptation: The case of penguins
- Why the eye?
- What in the World Do You Smell?
- What Food Is It?
- Why study the tree of life?
- Why Sex is Good
- Who's on First? Relative Dating
- What does it mean to be human?
- What did T. Rex Taste Like?
- What Came First?
- Webcast: The science of evolution
- Webcast: Selection in action
- Webcast: From butterflies to humans
- Webcast: Fossils, genes, and embryos
- Webcast: Endless forms most beautiful
- Xenosmilus
- Can You Tell by Touch?
- Can You Match Them?
- Darwin's "extreme" imperfection?
- Darwin and Wallace: Natural selection
- Darwin
- Big Beans, Little Beans
- Becoming a fossil
- Battling bacterial evolution: The work of Carl Bergstrom
- Battle of the Beaks
- Adaptation to altitude
- A Survey About Science
- A Strange Fish Indeed: The "Discovery" of a Living Fossil
- A Pleistocene Puzzle: Extinction in South America
- A name by any other tree
- A look at linguistic evolution
- A Long Time
- A fisheye view of the tree of life
- A fin is a limb is a wing
- A closer look at a classic ring species: The work of Tom Devitt
- Especiación en tiempo real
- ¿Eres un mal estimador? La culpa es de la evolución
- ¿De donde vienen todas las especies de Madagascar?
- Las chinches de cama pican de nuevo gracias a la evolución
- Juego evolutivo de citas y apareamiento
- ¿Decisiones de conservación difíciles? Pregúntale a la evolución
- ¡Feliz cumpleaños número 200, Darwin!
- Sexo, especiación y física subacuática
- La herencia inoportuna de una especie: riesgo de extinción
- Mejores biocombustibles gracias a la evolución