In 2006, the National Association of Biology Teachers held a special Symposium on Macroevolution. Macroevolution is evolution occuring on a grand time scale and explores areas such as the origin of species and the development of novel innovations like sexual reproduction. In this video Dr. Kathleen Smith from Duke University discusses her research on the evolution and development invertebrates.

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Information about the activities of the Center, and links to resources for learning more about primates, including images of materials available on loan from the Centers Audiovisual Archive. The Wisconsin National Primate Research Center is one of eight federally supported (NIH-NCRR) National Primate Research Centers and the only one in the Midwest. More than 250 center scientists, through...

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One of the fathers of the "modern synthesis" of evolutionary biology, Theodosius Dobzhansky, stated that "nothing in biology makes sense, except in the light of evolution." His words are equally true when applied to related fields, such as agriculture, medicine, and environmental and conservation biology. The books, articles, and Web sites listed here discuss the importance of evolution as the...

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This set of resources charts the history of evolutionary thought (including key works of Darwin) and its opposition, the social history of public controversy surrounding evolutionary biology, and misapplications of evolutionary thought in the social, political, and economic realms.

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This animation explores Fas signal transduction pathway that induces apoptosis. The animation was published in the journal Science (Molecular Animation of Cell Death Mediated by the Fas Pathway, Sci. STKE 2007 (380).

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