Evolution

Fetch Headings.ExtraData
Below are groups and resources (books, articles, websites, etc.) related to this topic. Click on an item’s title to go its resource page with author, publisher, description/abstract and other details, a link to the full text if available, as well as links to related topics in the Subject Index. You can also browse the Title, Author, Subject, Chronological, Dewey, LoC, and Format indexes, or use the Search box.
Particularly recommended items are flagged with a red logo:

Connexions Library

American Fascists: The Christian Right and the War on America
Hedges, Chris
Book
2006
Hedges examines the Christian Right's origins, its driving motivation and its dark ideological underpinnings, with interviews and coverage of events such as pro-life rallies and weeklong classes on co...
The Brain That Changes Itself: Stories of Personal Triumph from the Frontiers of Brain Science
Doidge, Norman
Book
2007
Doidge explains neuroplasticity and shows that the brain is not a collection of specialized parts but a dynamic organ and can rewire and rearrange itself as the need arises.
Islands of Hope: Ontario's Parks and Wilderness
Labatt, Lori ; Littlejohn, Bruce
Book
1992
Man, Beast and Zombie: What Science Can and Cannot Tell Us About Human Nature
Malik, Kenan
Book
2000
Drawing upon the ideas of evolutionary biology, cognitive science and artificial intelligence, Malik questions many of our assumptions about human nature.
Nature of Economies
Jacobs, Jane
Book
2000
Jacobs argues that since human beings exist wholly within nature as part of natural order in every respect, we should look to the processes of nature for vibrant and flexible models of economic planni...
On Darwin's 200th Anniversary: Against The Current vol. 143
Fayyazuddin, Ansar
Article
2009
The year 2009 is the 200th anniversary of the birth of Charles Darwin, as well as the 150th anniversary of the publication of his celebrated book On The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection...
Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - April 23, 2016: Science and its enemies
Diemer, Ulli (ed.)
Serial Publication (Periodical)
2016
Our society and its institutions, public and private, regularly tell us that science, and education in the sciences, are crucial to our future. These public declarations are strangely reminiscent of t...
The Revisionaries
Thurman, Scott
Film/Video
2012
The Revisionaries follows the attempts of a creationist Board of Education member to revise the science and history curricula to better suit a white, Christian nation.
The Science and Humanism of Stephen Jay Gould
York, Richard; Clark, Brett
Book
2011
Stephen Jay Gould was not only a leading paleontologist and evolutionary theorist, he was also a humanist with an enduring interest in the history and philosophy of science. The extraordinary range of...
Skeptical Inquirer: The Magazine for Science and Reason - Periodical profile
Serial Publication (Periodical)
Encourages the critical investigation of paranormal and fringe-science claims from a responsible, scientific point of view and disseminates factual information about the results of such inquiries to t...
State of the World's Oceans: New Internationalist January/February 2007
Serial Publication (Periodical)
2007
A look at the how the world's ocean is being destroyed and its effects on the earth.
What's the Matter with Kansas?: How Conservatives Won the Heart of America
Frank, Thomas
Book
2004
Explores the rise of conservative populism in the United States through the lens of Frank's native state of Kansas. According to his analysis, the political discourse of recent decades has dramaticall...
The World Without Us
Weisman, Alan
Book
2007
A thought experiment to see what would happen to the planet if human beings simply disappeared.

Sources Experts & Spokespersons

Sources Library

Adaptation
Sources Select Resources Encyclopedia
Adaptive mutation
Sources Select Resources Encyclopedia
Bully for Brontosaurus
Reflections in Natural History
Gould, Stephen Jay
1991
A collection of dicursive essays on natural history.
Dual inheritance theory
Sources Select Resources Encyclopedia
Evolution
Sources Select Resources Encyclopedia
In biology, evolution is change in the genetic material of a population of organisms through successive generations. Although the changes produced in a single generation are normally small, the accumu...
Evolution in the College Classroom
Facilitating Conversations about Science and Religion
Nisbet, Matt
2017
New approaches embedded in introductory biology courses about science and religious belief point to promising models for instructors to adopt, and offer insight on strategies for encouraging more cons...
The Ghost in the Machine
Koestler, Arthur
1967
An analysis of the relationship between reason and imagination.
The Greatest Show on Earth
The Evidence for Evolution
Dawkins, Richard
2009
Evolution is accepted as scientific fact by all reputable scientists and indeed theologians, yet millions of people continue to question its veracity. Dawkins explains the evidence for evolution while...
Lamarckism
Sources Select Resources Encyclopedia
Last universal ancestor
Sources Select Resources Encyclopedia
Memetics
Sources Select Resources Encyclopedia
Migration to America took long enough for evolution to happen on the way
O'Grady, Cathleen
2017
Similarities in Native American genomes suggest adaptation in ancient history.
Modern evolutionary synthesis
Sources Select Resources Encyclopedia
Natural selection
Sources Select Resources Encyclopedia
On the Origin of Species
Sources Select Resources Encyclopedia
Science and its enemies
Introduction to the April 23, 2016 issue of Other Voices
Diemer, Ulli
2016
Our society and its institutions, public and private, regularly tell us that science, and education in the sciences, are crucial to our future. These public declarations are strangely reminiscent of t...
Speciation
Sources Select Resources Encyclopedia
Speciation is the evolutionary process by which new biological species arise.