Those who reject biological evolution do so, usually, not out of reason, but out of unjustified vanity. -- Isaac Asimov
The suppression of uncomfortable ideas may be common in religion or in politics, but it is not the path to knowledge, and there's no place for it in the endeavor of science. -- Carl Sagan
About This Site
This blog includes 1) a collection of my posts mostly on evolution and the history of biology and 2) resources for the students in the classes I teach.
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All content here, excepting photos, is copyright of the author unless otherwise noted. The content shown represents the views of Bruce Olsen and does not necessarily reflect the opinions of his employer(s).
The Future is Wild Looking 5 million, 100 million, and 200 million years into the future, a team of scientists tries to predict what Earth could be like if civilization as we know it is wiped out by massive climate and geographic changes.
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.
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.
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?"
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.
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.