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Links related to evolution

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CLASSICS ON-LINE

GENERAL RESOURCES

ANTI-EVOLUTIONISM

SOCIETIES

ARTICLES

MISCELLANEOUS

ZOOL 304 (obsolete) ZOOL 510 (obsolete)

EVOLVABILITY

BIOGRAPHICAL NOTES

MEETINGS

DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY

BOOKS

SYSTEMATICS

Simple Sequence Repeats

GENETICS

Classics on-line
- The Complete Works of Charles Darwin Online (University of Cambridge) This site also includes the library which was available to CRD on board the Beagle.
- Origin of Species, first edition. The book which started it all [from An Online Library of Literature].
- Classic works in evolution (from the Ridley's Evolution website)
- Writings of Charles Darwin on the web (edited by John van Wyhe)
- The Voyage of the Beagle, Darwin's journal of his formative journey as naturalist aboard the surveying ship, H.M.S. Beagle [from An Online Library of Literature].
- Darwin Digital Library of Evolution, at the American Museum of Natural History
- The Journal of Syms Covington (Covington was Darwin's assistant during the Beagle voyage).
- The Descent of Man [from An Online Library of Literature].
- Darwin's correspondence.
- Darwin's library (books with annotations by Darwin)
- The Huxley File, materials by and about T. H. Huxley.
- The Alfred Russel Wallace Page
  - "On the Tendency of Varieties to Depart Indefinitely From the Original Type".
- The Mendel Web, Mendel's famous paper, with commentary and additional resources.
- Aristotle, at the MIT Internet Classics Archive.
- Molecular Biology of the Cell, 4th ed., textbook by Bruce Alberts, Alexander Johnson, Julian Lewis, Martin Raff, Keith Roberts, and Peter Walter, © 2002.
Evolution resources
- at the American Museum of Natural History
  - Darwin Digital Library of Evolution
  - Darwin
- The Evolution of Evolution (NSF special report)
- Evolution resources from the National Evolutionary Synthesis Center (NESC)
- Evolution resources from the National Academy of Sciences
- Evolution resources from the Sigma Xi
- Evolution links from Richard Cowen, author of History of Life textbook (webpages to accompany textbook).
- Tree of Life (phylogeny)
  - OneZoom (intuitive access to Tree of Life, at least for mammals)
- dmoz open directory, evolution
- Understanding Evolution (from UC Berkeley, "an evolution website for teachers")
- Lefalophodon (informal history of evolutionary biology)
- Stephen Jay Gould Archive
- Biographical notes (links to persons associated with the history of evolutionary biology)
- Harvard Biology Links: Evolution (part of the WWW Virtual Library).
- Issues in evolution (from actionbioscience, "promoting bioscience literacy").
- Brief history of evolutionary thought, Timeline (from UC Berkeley Museum of Paleontology).
- Evolution, Science and Society ("Relevance of evolutionary biology to the national research agenda"): [pdf], [html].
- Ridley's Evolution, 3rd ed. (This planned Blackwell Publishing site is not yet active.)
- Evolution resources from PBS / WGBH.
- Natural Selection and Genetic Drift Modeling Exercise ("designed for the course Organic Evolution ... offered by the Department of Biological Sciences at The University of Tennessee at Martin").
- PopG, downloadable program to simulate evolutionary genetics, from U. Wash.
- National Biological Information Infrastructure
- Evolution Weekend, and Darwin Day, events to celebrate the birth of Charles Darwin on February 12, 1809
- Some additional links: startlocal.com.au, EvoTutor.org,

Sites addressing anti-evolutionism, religion, and related topics

National Center for Science Education. NCSE works "to defend the teaching of evolution against sectarian attack." This site provides many links to sources of information related to evolution, as well as to creationist sites.


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Evolution resources from the National Academy of Sciences
The Clergy Letter Project
Not Mutually Exclusive (from the United Church of Christ)
"Our faith has nothing to do with clinging to ancient misconceptions. Our faith is not in the worldviews of ancient theologians or the cosmologies of biblical texts, as majestic as these might have been . Our faith is in the living God, who always goes ahead of us, speaking, calling, and creating. Gone is the old view of a small, static universe, with fixed species dwelling on a fixed earth. Gone is the old view of a small, static God. We believe that God yearns for us to understand nature more fully and to love it more deeply. God speaks in many ways and through many voices. Today, one of God’s most provocative voices is science. We listen and respond, grateful that our theology is enriched by new ideas." [ excerpt from A Pastoral Letter on Faith: Engaging Science and Technology, by the Rev. John H. Thomas, General Minister and President, United Church of Christ, January 2008]
Evolutionary Times Discussion related to Michael Dowd and his book, Thank God for Evolution.
Pharyngula blog (PZ Myers at the University of Minnesota, Morris)
Kitzmiller et al. vs. Dover Area School District (Decision by United States District Judge John E. Jones III, on "intelligent design")
- Testimony of Kevin Padian, UCB paleontologist.
Alliance for Science
Talk.Origins Archive ("exploring the creation / evolution controversy")
National Academy of Sciences / National Academies Press
The Panda's Thumb (Web log)
"Intelligent Design?", a debate published in Natural History, April 2002.
Massimo's Skeptic Web, essays by Massimo Pigliucci at www.rationallyspeaking.org
CSICOP commentary on ID as science, with links.
Worldview commentary (by the author of this website)
The American Scientific Affiliation (not addressing anti-evo per se, but addressing the pitched conflict between science and religion)

Professional societies and journals
- National Evolutionary Synthesis Center -- an NSF-funded center in Durham, North Carolina. The center represents a collaborative effort by three Universities in North Carolina's Research Triangle: Duke, NC State, and UNC-Chapel Hill. The Center's goal is to help foster a grand synthesis of the biological disciplines through the unifying principle of descent with modification.
- Society for the Study of Evolution (society publication: Evolution).
- Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution
- American Society of Naturalists (society publication: The American Naturalist).
- European Society for Evolutionary Biology (society publication: Journal of Evolutionary Biology).
- Trends in Ecology and Evolution (a Trends journal published by Elsevier Science).
Professional articles
- Gould, S. J., and R. C. Lewontin. 1978. The spandrels of San Marco and the Panglossian paradigm: A critique of the adaptationist programme. Proc. R. Soc. London 205: 581-598. (from AAAS "dialogue on science, ethics, and religion")
- Pigliucci, M., and J. Kaplan. 2000. The fall and rise of Dr. Pangloss: Adaptationism and the Spandrels Paper 20 years later. TREE 15: 66-70. (from UC Berkeley course page)
- Classic works in evolution (from the Ridley's Evolution website)
Systematics
- iSpecies.org ("a species search engine")
- Integrated Taxonomic Information System (scientific names)
- Global Biodiversity Information Facility (portal to taxonomy info)
Miscellaneous
- 3D Museum of fossils (UC Davis)
- Devonian Ocean Simulator (vertebrate evolution, noted in Science)
- Critical Thinking. (Critical thinking is such an important element in science, and so often absent in anti-evolution rhetoric, that this link seems appropriate here.)
- Victorian Web
- Loren Eiseley. (Loren Eiseley wrote Darwin's Century, a discussion of evolutionary thinking during the nineteenth century..)
- World-of-Dawkins "DISCLAIMER: This web site is unofficial, and Richard Dawkins is NOT associated with it." (Richard Dawkins and Steven Jay Gould are both great popularizers of evolutionary thinking. They also adopt mutually hostile views about how evolution should best be interpreted.)
- Bill Calvin's home page ("Books, Articles, and Talks -- mostly on brains, climate, evolution, and where we're heading").
Evolvability
- ZOOL 304 presentation, evolution of mutability
- Melanie Huntley (protein repeats)
- "Tuning knobs" and related literature.
- Kirshner and Gerhart, The Plausibility of Life, Resolving Darwin's Dilemma (Yale University Press, 2005). [Interview with authors]
- Sean Carroll, Endless Forms Most Beautiful (W.W. Norton, 2005). [reviews]
- Evolutionary innovation (special issue of J. Exp. Zool., vol. 304B, issue 6)
- Metaptation [abstract] [unpublished manuscript]
- Elisabeth A. Lloyd (levels of selection)
- Lynn Helena Caporale (includes citing and cited works)
  - L.H. Caporale, "Foresight in Genome Evolution", American Scientist 91(3): 234-241 (May-June, 2003).
  - L.H. Caporale, Darwin in the Genome, dedicated page with links.
    - John Bonner, review of Darwin in the Genome, at NewScientist.com
  - L.H. Caporale, Chance Favors the Prepared Genome. In Molecular Strategies of Biological Evolution. Annals of the NYAS 870:1-21 (1999).
  - L.H. Caporale, Evolution of Evolution
  - L.H. Caporale, Mutation is modulated: implications for evolution Bioessays 2000 Apr 22: 388-395. [abstract]
  - L.H. Caporale, Lessons from the most innovative genetic engineer. Nat Biotechnol 1998 Oct 16:908-9.
  - L.H. Caporale, Is there a higher level genetic code that directs evolution? Mol Cell Biochem 1984 64: 5-13 [abstract]
  - L.H. Caporale, Natural Selection and the Emergence of a Mutation Phenotype: An Update of the Evolutionary Synthesis Considering Mechanisms that Affect Genome Variation, Annual Review of Microbiology Volume 57, October 2003
- John Doyle, on complexity, protocols, robustness
- Larry Young lab at Emory [cf. Hammock, E. A. D., & Young, L. J. (2005) Microsatellite instability generates diversity in brain and sociobehavioral traits. Science 308, 1630-1634].
- Liz Hammock [cf. Hammock, E. A. D., & Young, L. J. (2005) Microsatellite instability generates diversity in brain and sociobehavioral traits. Science 308, 1630-1634].
- Conticello, Gilad, Avidan, Ben-Asher, Levy, Fainzilber (2001) Mechanisms for evolving hypervariability: The case of conopeptides. Mol Biol Evol 18(2):120-31
- Harold J. Bull, Gregory J. McKenzie, P. J. Hastings, and Susan M. Rosenberg (2000) Evidence that stationary-phase hypermutation in the Escherichia coli chromosome is promoted by recombination. Genetics 154: 1427-1437 (lots of relevant citations)
- Rodent Social Behavior Encoded in Junk DNA (NIH press release, Larry Young lab)
- John W. Fondon III and Harold R. Garner (2004) Molecular origins of rapid and continuous morphological evolution. PNAS 101(52): 18058-18063.
  - news release from Univ. Texas
- E. Pennisi, How the Genome Readies Itself for Evolution. Science 281: 1131-1134 (21 August 1998).
- E.R. Moxon and C. Wills, DNA Microsatellites: Agents of Evolution? Scientific American 280: 94-99 (January 1999).
- John S. Mattick, The hidden genetic program of complex organisms. Scientific American 291:60-7 (October 2004).
- Wayt Gibbs, The Unseen Genome. Scientific American (November 2003).
- John S. Mattick and Michael J. Gagen, The Evolution of Controlled Multitasked Gene Networks: The Role of Introns and Other Noncoding RNAs in the Development of Complex Organisms. Molecular Biology and Evolution 18:1611–1630 (2001).
- Miroslav Radman, Fidelity and Infidelity, Nature 413 :115 (Sept. 13, 2001), cites Caporale, NYAS.
- Bibliography of natural teleology and non-Darwinian evolution (by James Barham)
- To-the-point comments by Greg Bear
- Coauthors
  - Morris Soller
  - Yechezkel Kashi
  - Ed Trifonov
- W. Anthony Frankino (evolution of allometries)
- Walter Schaffner
- SSR links (simple sequence repeats) / SSRs as Tuning Knobs
- Evolution of visual systems (Dan-Eric Nilsson)
- Andreas Wagner Lab (evolvability)
- The Modularity Home Page
  - Günter Wagner (modularity)
    - Wagner, G. P. 1995. Adaptation and the Modular Design of Organisms. In Moran, F., Moreno, A., Merelo, J.J., and Chacon, P. eds. Lecture notes in artificial intelligence: advances in artificial life, 317-328. Berlino-Heidelberg: Springer-Verlag. Also,
    - Wagner, G.P. and L. Altenberg 1996. Complex adaptations and the evolution of evolvability. Evolution 50:967-976.
    - Wagner, G. P. 1996. Homologues, natural kinds and the evolution of modularity. American Zoologist 36:36-43.
- Robustness (bibliography from the Sante Fe Institute)
- Lauren Ancel Meyers
  - Ancel Meyers L, Ancel FD, Lachmann M (2005) Evolution of Genetic Potential. PLoS Comput Biol 1(3): e32.
  - Ancel, LW and JJ Bull (2002) Variation as an adaptation to an uncertain world. To appear in Trends in Ecology and Evolution
- The Konrad Lorenz Institute for Evolution and Cognition Research
  - Yet, most biological research today follows short-term goals and generates largely unconnected floods of empirical data. Traditional funding sources rarely support projects that analyze the conceptual implications of empirical, biological research and its meaning for the future of science and society. The KLI is committed to fill this void by fostering research that leads to the generation of cross-disciplinary theoretical models which may guide future applied research and decision making.
  - Modularity - Understanding the Development and Evolution of Complex Natural Systems Organized by Werner Callebaut and Diego Rasskin-Guttman, October 2000
  - The Vienna Series in Theoretical Biology
    - Heyes, C. & Huber, L. (Eds.). (2000). The Evolution of Cognition. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. ISBN 0-262-08286-1
- Molecular Information Theory, by Tom Schneider at NIH Laboratory Experimental and Computational Biology
- Evolution's Arrow, outsider essay by John Stewart with elements of metaptation
Genetics
- SSRs
- Journals
- Gene and genome data
  - diArk, "a database for eukaryotic sequence projects"
  - Allen Brain Atlas (mapping gene expression; see Nature 445:168-176, 11 January 2007, Genome-wide atlas of gene expression in the adult mouse brain)
  - Bioinformatics Support Portal ("bioinformatics for dummies", by the European Bioinformatics Institute)
  - Metazome, "a database and graphical user interface [from DOE and UC Berkeley Center for Integrative genomics] enabling comparative genomic studies within the Metazoa.

Logic and evolution of gene regulatory networks: http://www.itn-evonet.com/

Meetings

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