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What is Evolution?
“Biological (or organic) evolution is change in the properties of groups of organisms over the course of generations. ….The word evolution comes from the Latin evolvere, ‘to unfold or unroll’—to reveal or manifest hidden potentialities.” by permission, Douglas J. Futuyma (2005), Evolution, publ. Sinauer Association. Also see Evolution: Fact, Theory, Controversy.

A major effort by many scientific societies produced an excellent white paper about contemporary evolutionary biology. Select the short or long version graphic-oriented websites, or their accompanying PDFs from the links below:

Short version (html), (pdf)                 Long version (html), (pdf)
Full credits available in PDF versions.


Educational Resources
Audio show of evolution
Children's book on evolution
National science education standards
Center for teaching resources
Teaching Evolution: Online course for teachers (K-12 educators)
Essay on Evolution, Intelligent Design and Education (pdf)
American Academy for the Advancement of Science benchmarks for scientific literacy
National Center for Science Education
Evolution: a Public Broadcasting System series
Virtual Botanical Garden
EduRef
PBS.org Evolution Series
Scientists Promoting Evolution Education in Cincinnati (SPEEC)

Learn about evolution
Action Bioscience
BBC Evolution Site
Becoming Human
Chrono-Biographical Sketches of Biographers, Evolutionists and Ecologists
The Complete Works of Darwin
Evolution Happens
Evolution Update
Evonet, a worldwide network for evolutionary biology
Exploring the theory of evolution
Human Behavior and Evolution
Institute for Biodiversity
National Evolutionary Synthesis Center
PBS Human Evolution Site
Selected Papers on Evolution
Talk Origins
Tree of life
Understanding Evolution                                                                                                                                                  

Fun Things
Australian Moths
BBC Motion Gallery
Botanical images
E-skeleton project
Virtual Fossil Museum
Worldwide collection of plant images
A collection of animal sounds
Darwin Live!
Music and comedy by Richard Milner, performed at the 2005 meeting of the Society for the Study of Evolution

Cartoons

Evolution Meeting 2008

Call for Symposia - 2009 Annual Meeting

An Open Letter to the Texas Education Agency regarding science education and the
termination of Chris Comer (pdf)

Contribute to a special issue of Science & Education, Darwinian Anniversary Year 2009

Inclusive Science: Articulating Theory, Practice and Action

Call for Proposals – NESCent Sabbatical Scholars, Working Groups and Catalysis Groups

Send us your images of evolution: your image will be part of the set of randomized images displayed on this page! Credits will appear on the image. Send images to mjonas@life.bio.sunysb.edu

Lectures and Photos from the 2007 AIBS Annual Meeting, "Evolutionary Biology and Human Health," held May 14 -15 in Washington DC.

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