Evolution in Kansas

Evolution Theory

• Evidences for macroevolution
• Evolutionary Bioinformatics ; evolutionary conservation, integrating gnomic, genetic and experimental data
• "Evolution: science and belief--Intelligent Design?", from Natural History
• Evolution Education Institute Michigan Scientific Evolution Education Initiative (MSEEI)
• Evolution, International Journal of Organic Evolution, Society for the Study of Evolution
• Darwin Correspondence Project, complete texts of more than 2000 letters written by or to Charles Darwin during the years 1837 to 1859, Cambridge University Library
• Oceans of Kansas A Natural History of the Western Interior Sea, by Michael J. Everhart, Indiana University Press, 2005
• On the geology and paleontology of the Cretaceous strata of Kansas U.S. Geology Surv. Terr., 1871
• "Science Friction", by John McCool, KU History Department, Kansas History OnLine
• National Center for Science Education, Oakland, CA
• Top 10: Life's greatest inventions, New Scientist: 2005

Intelligent Design, Creationism Beliefs

• Kansas, Intelligent Design and Creationism, from Gene Expression
• Intelligent design , from Wikipedia
• Intelligent Design Network, Inc., Shawnee Mission, KS [leading proponent of intelligent design beliefs]
• "Devolution: Why intelligent design isn't", by H. Allen Orr, The New Yorker, May 30, 2005
• What is Creationism?, by Mark Isaak
• "What Matters in Kansas: The evolution of creationism", by William Saletan, May 11, 2005, Slate Magazine
• Intelligent Design: What Is It Really All About?, by Jack Krebs, KCFS, May 4, 2005 [.pdf file]
• The Argument from Design, an interesting view of 'design' by Robert Cailliau, co-developer of the world-wide web

Institutes, Societies, Libraries

• Biodiversity Research Center Informatics KU Natural History Museum
• International Commission on Stratigraphy
• International Trust for Zoological Nomenclature
• Kansas State Department of Education Official site
• Kansas Citizens for Science, Lawrence, KS
• National Academy of Sciences, Washington, D.C. [Evolution resources]
• Origin beliefs, Wikipedia [covers all major religious creation stories]
• Paleontological Institute, University of Kansas
• Salk Institute for Biological Studies, La Jolla, CA
• Society for Conservation Biology, Washington, DC
• Society for the Study of Evolution

Evolution Exhibits & Museums

• American Museum of Natural History, New York, Anne and Bernard Spitzer Hall of Human Origins
• Carnegie Museum of Natural History: Dinosaurs in Their Time, Pittsburg, PA
• Darwin Exhibit, American Museum of Natural History, New York
• Evolving Planet, Field Museum, Chicago
• Evolution Wing, UC Museum of Paleontology, University of California at Berkeley
• Explore Evolution, University of Nebraska State Museum, Lincoln; Sam Noble Museum of Natural History, University of Oklahoma; University of Nebraska State Museum; Exhibit Museum of Natural History, University of Michigan; Science Museum of Minnesota; Kansas Museum of Natural History and Biodiversity Center, University of Kansas; and Texas Memorial Museum, University of Texas at Austin.
• KU Natural History Museum, Lawrence
• Science Now New fossil find catches fish in the act of evolving into the first land-dwelling vertebrates, California Academy of Sciences

Related WWW-Virtual Library Sites

• WWW-VL: Biochemistry and Cell Biology Virtual Library
• WWW-VL: History of Science & Technology
• WWW-VL: Philosophy of Evolution

Fun stuff from the KU Paleontology Institute

• Kansas Fossil Store The Evolution Revolution: Evolve into some new clothes! (Copies of high-quality scientific lithographs of fossils.)