Since it’s an area of interest for me, as well as study of late, I thought an evolution page, from Darwin to the Modern Synthesis was in order. Below you’ll find a collection of links, most repeated from various blog post on Ichthyes, some not.
DARWIN
2009 is the 200th anniversary of Charles Darwin’s birthday and the 150th anniversary of his greatest work, The Origin of Species, the first complete manifesto on evolutionary theory and the springboard for Darwin’s own theory of natural selection. Evolution was not a new concept for Darwin and his contemporaries, but the mechanism he suggested for it, natural selection, was. In the past 150 years, new discoveries and our understanding of evolution have coalesced into what is known as the Modern Synthesis.
Tree of Life – The Wellcome Trust brings Darwin into the 21st Century
Tree of Life Blog – The Wellcome’s Trusts’ ToL blog
The Darwin Correspondence Project – Darwin was a prolific writer and corresponded with many scientists and naturalists all over the world
Open U’s Darwin Programming – in collaboration with the BBC
Darwin Online – The complete works of Darwin online
DailyLit – Read books online or in your email. This site has The Origin of Species online, ready to be delivered into your inbox in bitesize pieces
Darwin gets a Graphic Novel – We had plans along these lines, but with more comedy, including the council of barnacles
Darwin on Radio 4
Darwin on the BBC
Darwin 200 from Focus Magazine
Charles Darwin – A Year of Celebrations
Darwin’s Big Idea Big Exhibition – Online resources from the Natural History Museum’s Darwin exhibition
GUIDES
Dr Zack Evolution 101 – A podcast available on iTunes to download, Dr Zack gives a rundown of evolution from a modern perspective with clearn uncluttered language no matter what your academic background
Science Creationism & Evolution
PROGRAMMING
Check out the Darwin section above, and the programs on BBC, etc which revolve around both Darwin and the modern understanding of evolution
Open U on ITunes – has some evolution videos
ITunes U Cassiopeia Project – has a section on evolution
ARTICLES
Some of these links may be temporary, let us know if you find any links that are broken.
Thermodynamics and id
Creationism & Evolution: It’s the American Way
Nature Specials: Darwin
Evolution of spiders: Pharyngula
Build a Brain (brain evolution)
Who Scribbled Over Darwin’s Work
Top 10 Evolution Articles
Regulatory Evolution of Hox1 gene
Evolutionary Theory 150 years later
Why Everyone Should Learn the Theory of Evolution
New Feathered Dinosaur Adds to Bird Evolution Theory
Evolution of Tympanic Hearing Structures in Parasitoid Diptera
What Darwin missed , and again, and again
Extending Darwinism
Evolution of Fine Motor Skills
Convergent Evolution in Plasmida
Freaks of Nature
New Scientist’s ‘Darwin Was Wrong’
Darwin Was Wrongish
Sandwalk’s ‘Darwin Was Wrong?’
