Examines the life and accomplishments of Charles Darwin, the nineteenth-century English scientist responsible for advancing theories about the survival of species and the origins of life, and includes a time line, and a selection of primary source transcriptions and images.
Chronicles the life of the English naturalist who, after collecting plants and animals from around the world, postulated the theory of evolution by natural selection; and includes twenty-one activities.
Presents Charles Darwin's classic in which he argues that species change over time, evolving or dying out entirely, through the process of natural selection; and his journals from his five-year voyage around the world on the "H.M.S. Beagle, " in which he recorded his observations on geology and natural history.
Contains over twenty essays that explore evolution, covering historical figures in evolutionary biology, political debate over the topic, the genetic blueprint, the fossil record, and cognition and culture.
Presents an overview of the theory of evolution, and features fourteen essays, half that offer arguments in favor of Creationism, and half that examine evidence in support of evolution.
Answers questions about the natural world such as why the large land animals are mammals, why there are so many bird species and why they are so small, and why bodies of water are home mainly to large reptiles instead of large mammals.
Argues that the sixth great extinction on Earth is underway, with 30,000 species disappearing every year. In the previous five extinctions, at least sixty-five percent of all species disappeared, the same rate that they are now disappearing.
