Tuesday, July 7, 2009

15 evolutionary gems

This resource, produced by the journal 'Nature', highlights 15 examples illustrating the principle of evolution by natural selection taken from papers that have been published by Nature over the past decade, and is available in PDF (requires free-to-download Adobe Acrobat Reader) free of charge. It is written by editors from the journal, Henry Gee, Rory Howlett and Philip Campbell, and is aimed at biologists and the general public wishing to spread awareness of evidence for evolution by natural selection. The examples are arranged in the sections: gems from the fossil record; gems from habitats; and gems from molecular processes. Each example gives links to the abstracts (and sometimes the full-text) of the original articles discussed and provides a list of additional references and websites. Published by Macmillan Publishers Limited and made available on the Web by the Nature Publishing Group.

http://www.nature.com/nature/newspdf/evolutiongems.pdf

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