General Resources
Statement on evolution by the Society for the Study of Evolution
"Evolution" refers both to a set of scientific facts and to a theory explaining such facts. "Evolution" refers to the scientific fact that biological organisms have changed through time, and that all life, including humanity, has descended with modification from common ancestors. Evolution is as well documented as are other currently accepted scientific facts. The theory of evolution is a comprehensive and well-established scientific explanation, based on natural processes, of the fact of biological evolution.
Statement on the teaching of evolution by the Society for the Study of Evolution
Evolutionary theory should be taught in public schools because it is one of the most important scientific theories ever generated, and because it is the accepted scientific explanation for the diversity of life. As a scientific theory, it is testable and has been extensively tested. As stated by the great geneticist and evolutionist Theodosius Dobzhansky, "Nothing in biology makes sense except in the light of evolution." The theory of evolution is subject to refinements and revisions, but this is no different from any other major scientific theory, such as those providing the explanatory frameworks of geology, physics, or chemistry. There is no pedagogical or scientific reason to treat evolutionary theory any differently than any other well-accepted scientific theory, and it should be taught in public schools as the firmly established, accepted unifying scientific principle that it is.
Statements by other scientific societies
See also
Evolution Societies
Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution
http://www.smbe.org/
Canadian Society for Ecology and Evolution
http://www.ecoevo.ca/en/index.htm
European Society for Evolutionary Biology
http://www.eseb.org/
Sociedad Española de Biología Evolutiva
http://www.sesbe.org/
Association pour l'Etude de l'Evolution Biologique
http://www.up.univ-mrs.fr/aeeb/
Societa' Italiana di Biologia Evoluzionistica
http://www.sibe-iseb.it/
Australasian Evolution Society
http://www.evolutionau.org
Biologia Evolutiva em Portugal
http://biologia-evolutiva.net/
International Organization of Systematic and Evolutionary Biology
http://www.icseb-vi.biology.upatras.gr/
Verband deutscher Biologen
http://www.evolutionsbiologen.de/
Fachgruppe Evolutionsbiologie der Deutschen Zoologischen Gesellschaft
http://www.uni-tuebingen.de/evoeco/dzg/
American Society of Naturalists
http://www.amnat.org/
European society for Evolutionary Developmental biology
http://evodevo.eu/
Linnean Society
http://www.linnean.org/
Ecological Genetics Group
http://www.britishecologicalsociety.org/articles/groups/genetics/
Human Behavior and Evolution Society
http://www.hbes.com/
Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology
http://www.sicb.org
International Society for Evolutionary Protistology
http://www.bch.umontreal.ca/isep/
International Society for Behavioral Ecology
http://web.unbc.ca/isbe/
Genetics
Genetics Society
http://www.genetics.org.uk/
Genetics Society of America
http://www.genetics-gsa.org/
American Genetic Association
http://www.theaga.org/
Genetics Society of Canada
http://life.biology.mcmaster.ca/GSC/
Genetics Society of Australia
http://www.genetics.org.au/
Sociedade Brasileira de Genética
http://www.sbg.org.br/
Paleontology and Geology
Paleontological Society
http://www.paleosoc.org/
Society of Vertebrate Paleontology
http://www.vertpaleo.org
Geological Society of America
http://www.geosociety.org/
Paläontologische Gesellschaft
http://www.palaeontologische-gesellschaft.de/palges/
Systematics
Society of Systematic Biologists
http://systbiol.org/
Society of Systematic Botanists
http://www.sysbot.org/
Systematics Association
http://www.systass.org/
Société Française de Systématique
http://lis.snv.jussieu.fr/sfs/
Swiss Systematics Society
http://www.swiss-systematics.ch/
Gesellschaft für Biologische Systematik
http://www.gfbs-home.de/
Polish Taxonomical Society
http://www.biol.uni.wroc.pl/cassidae/pttaxtitle.html
Systematics Association of New Zealand
http://www.math.canterbury.ac.nz/bio/SYSTANZ/contactus.html
Society of Australian Systematic Botanists
http://www.sasb.org.au/
Bay Area Biosystematists
http://www.biosystematists.org
Willi Hennig Society
http://www.cladistics.org/
Gesellschaft für Biologische Systematik
http://www.gfbs-home.de/
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