Natural History, Biology, and the Evolutionary Synthesis

last updated: 12 November 2007

Evolution [major new PBS documentary; first broadcast Monday, Sept. 24th, 2001]	Image Archive on the American Eugenics Movement
History of Race in Science [metasite]	Pro-Eugenics Demonstration on Wall Street, 1915

American Museum of Natural History (New York)	WWW Virtual Library for the History of Science, Technology, and Medicine [biology links]
History of Biology: A Guide to Sources	History of Biology in Russia and the USSR
The Natural History Museum (London, England)	History of Evolution
The Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution	The Alfred Russel Wallace page [history of modern biology and especially evolutionary theory]
The Life Sciences in the Twentieth Century [review essay by Gar Allen]	Rachel Carson and Silent Spring
An Interview with Francis Crick [transcript]	The Human Genome Project [overview]
Watson and Crick: Receiving the Nobel Prize	History of the Human Genome Project
Background on [the late] Stephen Jay Gould	History of Genetics
Early Classics in Biogeography, Distribution, and Diversity Studies: To 1950	The Evolution - Creationism Controversy
For those who like chronologies: the Biological Sciences over the centuries	The Race for DNA: A meta website produced at OSU
Radiometric Dating: A Christian Perspective	Faith and Reason project [on science and religion]
James Watson: major controversy over racial remarks [Oct. 2007]	How Science is Rewriting the Book on Genes (2007)
Intelligent Design on Trial [PBS NOVA documentary, 2007]

From the Scopes Trial to Contemporary Creationism: The Historical Debate

The Evolution Debate [a major compilation by the New York Times, summer 2005]

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