This web page at the University of California at Berkeley provides a brief introduction to evolutionary biology. Most notably, it has links to introductory material on the science of phylogenetics and discussion of major players in the development of thought on evolutionary biology. (
http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/
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This is an online reproduction of Wallace's famous publication on his ideas on evolution. (Reproduced from Annals and Magazine of Natural History, 2nd Series. 16:184-196 (1855)) Required: Acrobat Reader. (
http://www.esp.org/books/wallace/law.pdf
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This site is the archive for the talk.origins online newsgroup, which frequently discusses issue of evolution v. scientific creationism. (
http://earth.ics.uci.edu:8080/
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This is the homepage for an organization devoted to the "scientific study of creationism". It might be interesting to view some of these materials after reading about evolutionary biology from a text or discussing the topic in class. (
http://www.creationresearch.org/
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This site from ScienceWeb discusses the Burgess Shale fossils, a fossil bed in the Canadian Rockies that dates to the Cambrian explosion. (
http://www.scienceweb.org/burgess/contents.html
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