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The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online

This website contains all the editions of On the Origin of Species as well as Descent of Man, all his articles and notebooks from his voyage on the HMS Beagle.

The Darwin Digital Library of Evolution

This website from the American Museum of Natural History Library uses Darwin as an anchor but encompasses the entire history of evolutionary theory before and after Darwin.

The Autobiography of Charles Darwin

This text is made available by Project Gutenberg.

Evolution: a Journey into Where We're from and Where We're Going

This site from PBS is a multimedia marvel that contains videos, partial transcripts from interviews with scientists and academicians, and activities concerning various topics that were covered on the PBS series.

Intelligent Design on Trial (NOVA)

This website is built around the case Kitzmiller v. Dover, which was brought against a school district in Pennsylvania in 2005 by parents after the school district required teachers to read a disclaimer advocating Intelligent Design (ID) as an alternative to evolutionary theory when teaching evolution in science classes. All school board members in favor of ID were voted out in the next election cycle before the decision was handed down by the judge who decided the case in favor of the parents, citing the Establishment Clause. The site features interview transcripts and audio and video clips.

Understanding Evolution - your one-stop source for information on evolution

This site from Berkeley starts with Evolution 101, and includes lesson plans for teachers, the history evidence of evolutionary theory.

Evolution Resources from the National Academies

This site discusses evolution in terms of agriculture, industry and medicine, and also talks about creationism and intelligent design and the scientific evidence refuting these two theories.

On the origin of species by means of natural selection; or the Preservation of favored races in the struggle for life / Charles Darwin.

QH365 .O2 1929

Fossils : the evolution and extinction of species : being an investigation of the pulse and pace of the evolution of life as revealed by the fossilized remains of the Earth’s ancient flora and fauna / Niles Eldredge ; photography by Murray Alcosser.

QE711.2 .E47 1991

Origins : fourteen billion years of cosmic evolution / Neil deGrasse Tyson and Donald Goldsmith.

PHYS SC. QB981 .T98 2005

River out of eden : a Darwinian view of life / Richard Dawkins ; illustrations by Lalla Ward.

QH430 .D39 1995b

Evolution’s workshop : God and science on the Galápagos Islands / Edward J. Larson.

QH366.2 .L375 2001

Darwin's revolution in thought [videorecording] : an illustrated lecture for the classroom / Stephen Jay Gould ; produced and directed by Robert Di Nozzi.

AUDIOVISUAL. AVV-1588-1

Arguments on evolution : a paleontologist’s perspective / Antoni Hoffman.

QE721 .H64 1989

The emergence of life : Darwinian evolution from the inside / Sidney Fox.

QH325 .F658 1988

Evolution, the grand synthesis : the adventure of matter, life, and society in the universe / Ervin Laszlo ; foreword by Jonas Salk.

QH371 .L37 1987

The blind watchmaker / by Richard Dawkins.

QH366.2 .D37 1985

Radiometric dating, geologic time, and the age of the Earth : a reply to "scientific" creationism [microform] / by G. Brent Dalrymple.

GOVFICHE. I 19.76: 86-110

Dictionary of science & creationism / Ronald L. Ecker ; foreword by Martin Gardner.

REF. Q123 .E254 1990

Creationism’s upside-down pyramid : how science refutes fundamentalism / Lee Tiffin.

BS651 .T54 1994