Evolver Zone

A basic overview of phylogenetic tree inference.

A War on Science, TV special on BBC’s Horizon.

Abigail Lustig, a historian at the University of Texas at Austin, presents her testimony on the history and status of evolution as fact and theory to the Texas Board of Education.

Ajit Varki discusses primate evolution and its relevance to human medicine.

A game involving classification of species on the basis of evolutionary relationships.

A game showing the evolution of new species of birds on islands.

Psychiatrist Andy Thomson presents his hypothesis for the evolution of religion as a byproduct of other adaptive components of human cognition.

Intelligent design proponent claims that textbooks are wrong on evolution.

A video in French discussing punctuated equilibria and transitional fossils.

Real arguments presented by anti-evolutionists.

Game inspired by the BBC series Walking with Dinosaurs.

A collection of videos about the evolution of the bombardier beetle.

Tyler Keillor at the University of Chicago discusses the process of creating the model for Tiktaalik.

Science writer Carl Zimmer and paleontologist/developmental biologist Neil Shubin discuss Tiktaalik and related subjects.

A challenge to proponents of intelligent design.

Biologist Christopher Wills discusses the evolution of complexity at various scales.

Genome scientist J. Craig Venter discusses his work on environmental genomics in discovering microbial diversity in the sea.

Daniel Dennett provides an evolutionary perspective on questions of human psychology.

Philosopher Daniel Dennett discusses dangerous memes.

Philosopher Daniel Dennett discusses consciousness.

Videos related to the 2009 Darwin exhibit presented by the Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History.

What if the producers of the recent blockbuster Sherlock Holmes made a movie about Darwin? Dana Carvey, of Saturday Night Live fame, answers this question with a spoof movie trailer. Dana Carvey is “DARWIN” – watch more funny videos

Watch musical compositions evolve by random mutation and artificial selection by the listener.

A collection of folk songs written for Darwin Year.

A three-part series on the life and work of Charles Darwin on the CBC program The Nature of Things.