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Logarithmic Timeline of the Universe
Timelines covering largely varying timescales are more conveniently represented on a logarithmic scale. This one covers from the Big Bang (NOW minus 10^10.14 years) to 31... |
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Walking with Dinosaurs
BBC Online : A multimedia tour of prehistoric life. Find out what the earth was like 65-220 million years ago. Discover the planet, the plants and the dinosaurs.... |
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The Human Origins
Human evolution is the lengthy process of change by which people originated from apelike ancestors. Scientific evidence shows that the physical and behavioral traits shar... |
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Tragedy of the Dodo, Mauritius
In the year 1598 AD, Portuguese sailors landing on the shores of the island of Mauritius discovered a previously unknown species of bird, the Dodo. Having been isolated b... |
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Timeline of Evolutionary Thought
On the life and work of notable people who have contributed to evolutionary thought... |
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Charles Darwin, Evolution Theory
Charles Robert Darwin was an English naturalist whose revolutionary theory laid the foundation for both the modern theory of evolution and the principle of common descent... |
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Alfred Russel Wallace
Alfred Russel Wallace, English naturalist, evolutionist, geographer, anthropologist, and social critic and theorist. Co-discoverer of the theory of natural selection and... |
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Thomas Henry Huxley
Thomas Henry Huxley was one of the first adherents to Darwin's theory of evolution by natural selection, and did more than anyone else to advance its acceptance among sci... |
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Origin of Species, Darwin
It's hard to talk about The Origin of Species without making statements that seem overwrought and fulsome. But it's true: this is indeed one of the most important and inf... |
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James Lovelock, Scientist
James Lovelock is the author of approximately 200 scientific papers, distributed almost equally among topics in Medicine, Biology, Instrument Science and Geophysiology. H... |
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Lynn Margulis, Scientist
Margulis realized that life’s most important division was not plants versus animals. Instead, the great divide came between bacteria and all other organisms—protoctists,... |
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DNA Code Cracked, Watson and Crick
James Watson & Francis Crick - It took an ex-physicist and a former ornithology student - along with some unwitting help from a competitor - to crack the secret of life.... |
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Gaia Hypothesis, Cooperative Evolution
Lynn Margulis has been Lovelock's principal collaborator for twenty-five years. She is an expert on the role that microorganisms play in evolution. In the late 1960's, at... |
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Gaia: A New Look at Life on Earth
Good things do come in small packages. The book is all of 140 pages, and is written in a lean, but not glossed-over style. Robert Lovelock (to my knowledge) is the contem... |
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Darwin-online.org.uk
Darwin's private papers online - the largest publication of Darwin's papers in history. Read about it here. Browse the papers here.
This site contains Darwin's complet... |
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