Links:
- Darwin and HMS Beagle - Darwin and HMS Beagle - a list of links to on-line resources that cover Darwin's voyage.
(Added: 27-Oct-1999 By: r Hits: 787)
- Palaeontology Without Walls - Interested in fossils, phylogeny and evolution? This attractive, well-ordered site is packed full of information. Navigation tools allow you to travel between exhibits on any organism or geological time period. A search facility and the presentation of kingdoms and subgroups are suited to those already knowledgeable in this area. The site contains clear images but they can be slow to load.
(Added: 19-Jan-1999 By: rb Hits: 520)
- Prisoner's Dilemma - The Prisoner's Dilemma is the foundation of all game theory and rational choice theory in economics and politics. Part of a broader educational site, this is an electronic version of the Prisoner's Dilemma as well as providing text on why it is intellectually important. Have a go - will you cooperate or cheat? This site would also be of use to ecology and animal behaviour students studying game theory.
(Added: 19-Jan-1999 By: rb Hits: 542)
- The Complete works of Charles Darwin online - contains more than 50,000 searchable text pages and 40,000 images of both publications and handwritten manuscripts. There is also the most comprehensive Darwin bibliography ever published and the largest manuscript catalogue ever assembled. More than 150 ancillary texts are also included, ranging from secondary reference works to contemporary reviews, obituaries, published descriptions of Darwin's Beagle specimens and important related works for understanding Darwin's context.
(Added: 20-Oct-2006 By: DP Hits: 170)
- The Huxley File - an extensive collection of information, which includes details from Huxley's journey on HMS Rattlesnake.
(Huxley was Darwin's Champion).
(Added: 27-Oct-1999 By: r Hits: 523)
- The Origin of Species by Charles Darwin - This a complete, unabridged version of one of the greatest published works of science. It is broken down into chapters and each has its own table of contents. There is also an extensive glossary and a link to Darwin's other works. A convenient way to explore Darwin's work.
(Added: 15-Dec-1998 By: r Hits: 588)
- Walking with Dinosaurs - The site of the 1999 TV series of the same name. Includes games, screensaver … but also lots of useful information.
(Added: 11-Oct-1999 By: DP Hits: 669)
- Webworms and Parsnips - Coevolution between a herbivore and its host plant. (Advanced)
The interaction between wild parsnips, Pastinaca sativa, and the parsnip webworm, Depressaria pastinacella, is mediated by a group of toxic compounds called furanocoumarins. These compounds are found throughout the parsnip plant, including its reproductive parts, which are the favourite food of the parsnip webworm. Few herbivores are capable of coping with the high concentrations of furanocoumarins found in wild parsnips. Thanks to a highly efficient detoxification system involving cytochrome P450s, webworms are well adapted to coping with these compounds.
(Added: 22-Aug-1999 By: r Hits: 564)
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