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On
Your Own: Further explorations
Overview;
General:
UCBerkeley's 'Understanding evolution'
Sean Carroll: The evidence from 'Evo-Devo'
CoS
lecture series on evolution (you
may recognize some of the speakers...).
Evidences
of evolution (from
Answer.com)
24
Myths and misconceptions about evolution (from
New Scientist)
Encyclopedia of Life
Lab
1: Gene Pool Currents
Lab
2: Crawling the Tree of Life
Tree of Life
Web Project (a browsable effort to populate
the phylogenetic tree with images, interesting facts, classifications
schemes...)
PBS: Interactive
exercise on homology, analogy, relatedness
PBS: Origin
of a Species
Interactive exercise showing the history of new
species of 'pollenpeepers'
Mesquite: A freeware, cross-platform program for generating and
evaluating trees
Homology
and Analogy: A collection of links,
many with interactive components, from Berkeley Evo. Edu.
Dr.
Gerry Carr's website on the
Hawaiian silversword alliance
Intrigued
by bioinformatics (+ lab 4 HOX genes & development)? Try here
Lab
: Hox genes & the arthropod bodyplan
Explore the evolution
of the arthropod bodyplan (Berkeley)(may be used in-class)
Lab
8: Being Green
The
contrivances by which Orchids are Pollinated by Insects (C.
Darwin)
Evolution of seeds
Avoiding having sex with yourself
Lab
10: Arthropods/HOX
BugGuide.net;
Info, ID on North American arthropods
Lab
11: Eye-Mollusc
the
Cephalopod page
Everything
eyes (the facts are generally solid; some of the interpretation
is... awry)
Color vision evolution (and devolution) in animals/mammals
Who's
soft and weak? (Shark v. octopus; includes some death)
Wikipedia on eye evolution
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