Evolutionary Theory
Darwin
Synthesis
Selection
Adaptation

Darwin & History of Evolutionary Thinking

Early Theories of Evolution
http://anthro.palomar.edu/evolve/default.htm

The Voyage of the Beagle by Charles Darwin
http://www.literature.org/authors/darwin-charles/the-voyage-of-the-beagle/

The Origin of Species (1st ed.) by Charles Darwin
http://www.literature.org/authors/darwin-charles/the-origin-of-the-species/

The Origin of Species (6th ed.) by Charles Darwin
http://www.literature.org/authors/darwin-charles/the-origin-of-the-species-6th-edition/

The Darwin–Wallace 1858 Evolution Paper
http://www.linnean.org/index.php?id=380

The Alfred Russel Wallace Page
http://www.wku.edu/%7Esmithch/index1.htm

Evolution, Darwin, and the Victorian Context
http://post.queensu.ca/~forsdyke/evolutio.htm

Darwin at Downe
http://www.darwinatdowne.co.uk/

An Informal History of Evolutionary Biology, 1800-1950
http://www.nceas.ucsb.edu/~alroy/lefa/lophodon.html

A Brief and Idiosyncratic History of the Concept of Evolution (pdf File)
http://www.as.ua.edu/ant/bindon/ant570/topics/Evolution.pdf

The Evolutionary Synthesis

Evolution Entrance, Museum of Paleontology
http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/history/evolution.html

Synthetic Theory of Evolution
http://anthro.palomar.edu/synthetic/default.htm

The Modern Synthesis of Genetics and Evolution
http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/modern-synthesis.html

Modern Evolutionary Synthesis (Wikipedia)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modern_evolutionary_synthesis

Biology and Evolutionary Theory (The TalkOrigins Archive)
http://www.talkorigins.org/origins/faqs-evolution.html

Punctuated Equilibrium (Wikipedia)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punctuated_equilibrium

Natural Selection

Darwin and Natural Selection
http://anthro.palomar.edu/evolve/evolve_2.htm

The Theory of Natural Selection
http://www.biology-online.org/2/10_natural_selection.htm

Darwin't Finches and Natural Selection
http://www.biology-online.org/2/11_natural_selection.htm

Adaptation and Selection
http://bio.research.ucsc.edu/~barrylab/classes/animal_behavior/SELECT.HTM

Natural Selection (Wikipedia)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_selection


Natural Selection
http://www.mnsu.edu/emuseum/biology/evolution/genetics/naturalselection.html

Evolution and Natural Selection
http://www.globalchange.umich.edu/globalchange1/current/lectures/selection/selection.html

Adaptation

Adaptive Features of Organisms
http://www.nyu.edu/projects/fitch/courses/evolution/html/adaptation.html

Penquin Adaptation (Learning Activities)
http://octopus.gma.org/surfing/antarctica/penguin.html

Fossilization and Adaptation: Activiites in Paleontology
http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/fosrec/Breithaupt2.html

There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers,
having been originally breathed by the Creator into a few forms
or into one; and that, whilst this planet has gone cycling on
according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning
endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been,
and are being evolved.

Charles Darwin
Concluding Comments From: The Origin of Species


Evolution is more than a hypothesis.
It is indeed remarkable that this theory
has been progressively accepted by researchers,
following a series of discoveries in various fields of knowledge.
The convergence, neither sought nor fabricated,
of the results of work that was conducted independently
is in itself a significant argument in favour of this theory.

Pope John Paul II
Message to Pontifical Academy of Sciences, October 22, 1996

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