Online Resources
Darwin and Natural Selection
Charles Darwin's online biography
Online version of
Origin of Species
Alfred Russell Wallace's online biography
A general discussion on the
scientific method of inquiry
Jean Baptiste de Lamarck
from the Victorian Web
Links to evolution and biology pages
from Harvard's Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology
The Talk.Origins Home Page
The World of Richard Dawkins
Stephen Jay Gould
Visit the University of California Museum of Paleontology's online
history of evolutionary thought
for biographies beginning with Aristotle
Genetics
National Center for Genome Research Projects
Visit
MendelWeb
for an extensive treatment of all things Mendelian
Molecular genetics primer from the US Department of Energy, in
Adobe Acrobat format
History of Genetics,
from UC Davis
Human Mitochondrial DNA Database
Visit the Virtual Fly Lab
and do some fly breeding
The Virtual Library's
links to genetics
The Eccles Institute of Human Genetics
at the University of Utah
The Human Genome Project
University of Arizona's
Quantitative Genetics Research Page
Dr. Cavalli-Sforza's Genetics Laboratory
at Stanford University
The Howard Hughes Medical Center presents,
Blazing a genetic trail
- researching the human genome
Genetics links
from Access Excellence
Cambridge University's
genetics library
Map of the Human Genome - chromosome by chromosome
Population Genetics and the Modern Synthesis
The Sewall Wright Institute at the University of Wisconsin
On the Life of Ronald A. Fisher
Hardy-Weinberg and the Modern Synthesis
from the University of Arizona
Database of societies and journals on
Evolution and Population Genetics
Species and Phylogenetics
Visit the
Tree of Life
at the University of Arizona
Explanation of taxonomy
(phenetics, cladistics, and evolutionary taxonomy)
UC Berkeley's Museum of Paleontology explains cladistics
Try your hand at a little systematics
exercise
at the University of Illinois
Primates
Pictures and sound clips of African Primates
Net Vet's listing of Primate Links
Visit the
Primate Gallery
More primate pictures, from the
Wisconsin Regional Primate Center
Information from the
Makerere University Biological Field Station
in Kibale Forest, Uganda
Regional Primate Research Centers
American Society of Primatologists
Fossil Hominids and Paleoanthropology
The Talk.Origins Fossil Hominids FAQ Page
Institute of Human Origins
Handprint.com's 'Ancestral Lines'
Hominid Time Line
Neandertals: A Cyber Perspective
AMNH's 3D Fossil Skulls
National Geographic's In Search of Human Origins
Evolution of Social Behavior
Detailed explanations of the
Prisoners' Dilemma
and its implications for the evolution of altruism
Interactive Prisoner's Dilemma
from Bryn Mawr University
Interview with Richard Dawkins
- on kin selection and the evolution of cooperation
Short bio of Edward O. Wilson
, revolutionary sociobiologist
Evolutionary Psychology
UC Santa Barbara's Center for Evolutionary Psychology
The SFU Evolutionary Psychology Research Group
Visit the
Evolutionary Psychology for the Common Person
home page
Follow some
links on evolutionary psychology and behavior
, from Clark University
Human and Primate Anatomy
DAVID: Online Atlas of Human Anatomy
Osteo Interactive
(great skeletal anatomy resource)
The Skull Module
(very nifty)
Comparative foot morphology
and
bipedal mecahnics
from the University of Illinois
Hand morphology
from the University of Illinois.
Facts and figures about the brain
Visit Indiana University's research page on
handedness and brain lateralization
-- check the degree of lateralization in yourself online
Other Anthropology and Science Related Web Resources
Anthropology Resources on the Internet
- very thorough!
Anthropology In the News
hot off the press
Science News
also hot off the press
Science Magazine Online
Get Science Magazine's Latest News and Stories
CARL bibliographic services
Books Online
-- Virtual Library of many, many books
Software
Adobe Acrobat Reader (to view .pdf files)
Netscape Navigator downloads
Shockwave Plug-In for Netscape Navigator
-- useful for some of the interactive demo sites
Try out
Populus
, a software simulation of population genetics developed by the University of Minnesota
Zuper-Skeleton demo program
to assist in basic skeletal anatomy
Interactive Human Evolution Software
, available from UC Santa Barbara -- requires the Shockwave plug-in (see above)