Identify basic trends in the evolutionary history of humans, including walking upright, brain size, jaw size, and tool use.

EvoDots lets the user explore the mechanism of evolution. The program creates a population of dots. The user is a predator. As the dots run around the screen, the user eats them by clicking on them with the mouse. After the user has...

This slideshow provides a brief overview of Charles Darwin and his theory of evolution, natural selection and survival of the fittest.

[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Covers the evolution and ecology of amphibians.

[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] An overview of the major trends in animal evolution.

[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Covers four unifying principles of biology: cell theory, gene theory, homeostasis, and evolutionary theory.

Overview of the basic concepts behind evolution, such as gene variation and adaptations.[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.]

[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] The briefest overview of human evolution.

[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] The briefest overview of human evolution.

[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Describes relationship between evolution and the geologic time scale.

A brief description of George Cuvier and his ideas concerning comparative anatomy, fossils, evolution of life, and the idea of extinction.

This site from The Eight Planets shows that Titan may serve as a model of a highly reduced early Earth atmosphere in which the first stages of organic chemical evolution could take place in the atmosphere.

[Free Registration/Login Required] This passage discusses Charles Darwin and his theory of natural selection in evolution. This passage is a stand-alone curricular piece that reinforces essential reading skills and strategies and...

[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about prehistoric evolution of the human race. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.

[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Discusses the evolution of reptiles.

[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Discusses the evolution of animal behavior and the nature-nurture debate.

[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] For life to evolve from simple single-celled organisms to many millions of species of prokaryotic species to simple eukaryotic species to all the protists, fungi,...

[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Describes how plants with seeds evolved.

[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Describes Darwin's observations on the Galapagos Islands that led to his theory of evolution.

[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Describes Darwin's observations on the Galapagos Islands that led to his theory of evolution.

[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Describes Darwin's observations on the Galapagos Islands that led to his theory of evolution.

[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Describes how plants evolved from living in the oceans to living on land.

Examples of natural selection processes are well documented in life forms that have very rapid life cycles such as bacteria.

Instructional module focusing on the early work of Charles Darwin. Discusses Darwin's key role in supporting and describing the theory of evolution as driven by natural selection. Site also includes an interactive practice quiz and links...