Evolution
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- The Dark Matter of Modern Human Origins
- John Hawkes weblog covering the interesting issues in paleoanthropology that are not well covered by the mainstream science press.
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- The Evolution of Man
- Essays recounting our three million year journey from the treetops of Africa to civilization.
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- The Human Story: As it Really Happened
- Provides information on the book of this name by KRV Hari about the human saga of the last 500,000 years. There are sample pages to download and a link to purchase the book online.
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- The Leakey Family
- PBS provides biographical information on the Leakey family and their work and important discoveries in East Africa.
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- The Upright Ape: A New Origin of the Species
- Information on a book by Aaron G. Filler MD, PhD that presents a new theory on the early origins of the hominiform primates.
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- New Scientist: Chromosomes Reveal Surprise Human-chimp Differences
- Comparisons of newly-sequenced chimpanzee chromosome 22 and its counterpart, human chromosome 21, show that while the DNA differences are small, they are spread out to affect 83 percent of the proteins coded for. (May 26, 2004)
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- New Scientist: Dawn of Human Race Uncovered
- The discovery of three Ethiopian skulls from 160,000 years ago, showing almost completely modern features, lends new support to the Out-of-Africa hypothesis. Includes information about handling of skulls after death and dating techniques used. (June 11, 2003)
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- Animal Emergence During Snowball Earths by Thermosynthesis in Submarine Hydrothermal Vents
- Paper by Anthonie W J Muller proposing a theory that organisms can use or may have used thermal cycling as an energy source, for example in volcanic hot springs, as an evolutionary step towards photosynthesis.
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- Debashish Bhattacharya Laboratory
- Our lab studies the molecular evolution of algae and protist and the origin of introns. Rutgers University.
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- ExPASy Life Science Directory
- Part of the ExPASy Molecular Biology Server, this extensive list includes almost exclusively pointers to information sources for life scientists with an interest in biological macromolecules.
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- History of Molecular Evolution
- Information from Wikipedia on the emergence of this field of study following the rise of molecular biology and the advent of protein sequencing. The differences between homologous sequences can be used as a molecular clock to estimate the time since the last common ancestor.
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- Joseph Felsenstein
- Profile of Joseph Felsenstein, Professor of Genome Sciences and of Biology at the University of Washington, providing his areas of research and publications.
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- Molecular Evolution
- Information from Wikipedia on this scientific field where researchers seek to understand recent discoveries on the structure and function of nucleic acids and proteins.
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- Walter M. Fitch
- Profile of Walter M. Fitch, Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at the University of California, Berkeley, including his research interests and publications.
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- Darwiniana and Evolution
- Comprehensive directory of links to sites directly or indirectly concerning evolution.
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- Danny Yee's Book Reviews: Evolution
- Reviews of several score books about evolution - mostly popular titles, but some academic works as well.