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Recommended Websites

A Walk through Time Imagine taking a one-mile walk where every step transports you a million years in time!

Anatomy Atlases A digital library of anatomy information.

AntiEvolution.org A website that provides concise and accurate information for those who wish to critically examine the antievolution movement.

Brain from Top to Bottom, The
This excellent website discusses the evolutionary layers of the human brain.

Brainmuseum.org A website devoted to the comparative anatomy of mammalian brains, including humans.

Complete Works of Charles Darwin Online, The This website contains the works of Charles Darwin.

Creation and Intelligent Design Watch

Darwin Correspondence Project Home Page, The

Educational Games Play educational games about discoveries in medicine or physiology, courtesy of the Nobel Assembly at the Karolinska Institute in Oslo, Norway.

eSkeletons Project, The A website devoted to the comparative anatomy of human and primate skeletons.

Foundation for Critical Thinking, The
A website to promote essential change in education and society through the cultivation of fair-minded critical thinking - thinking predisposed toward intellectual empathy, humility, perseverance, integrity, and responsibility.

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Human Evolution: Interpreting Evidence Explores how scientists understand our evolutionary history by considering the facts and interpretations of the human fossil record.

Huxley File, The The letters and publications by, and historic commentary on, Thomas Henry Huxley, also known as "Darwin's bulldog".

NCBI - Bookshelf A growing collection of biomedical books, free and full text.

NCBI - PubMed Home The publicly available version of Medline, a database of biomedical literature produced by the National Center for Biotechnology Information.

National Center for Science Education, The Answers the question, "What, exactly, IS creationism?"

Selected Papers on Evolution

Skeptic's Dictionary, The: Evaluating Personal Experience From the website devoted to debunking claims of the supernatural, paranormal, and pseudoscientific comes an article pointing out the difference between data provided by anecdote and data from randomized, double-blind, controlled experiments.

Skeptoid Answers the question, "What is a Skeptic?"

Strange Science: The Rocky Road to Modern Paleontology and Biology
An award-winning website about the history of science, including evolutionary biology.

TalkOrigins Archive, The

Taxonomy of Logical Fallacies, A
A collection of named fallacies, such as "ad hominem", and of fallacious arguments, that is, examples of reasoning that may commit one or more of the named fallacies, or are bad in some way yet to be classified.

Tree of Life Web Project Biologists from around the world provide information about the diversity of organisms on Earth, their evolutionary history, and characteristics.

Understanding Evolution

Virtual Fossil Museum, The
An educational resource dedicated to fossils; high-quality pictures of fossils are presented that are organized by fossil sites and systematics.