5.4 Evolution

IB Statements

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PPTs: 1 / 2

Articles:

• The Evolution of Feathers (Carl Zimmer)
• Tending the Body’s Microbial Garden => are all bacteria ‘bad’? (Carl Zimmer)
• Waters of Change – an accidental experiment in America shows how evolution happens (The Economist)
• Evolution in Action – Africa’s Lower Congo River is host to a vast diversity of fishes, and we learn a little about what makes this region so special  (The Guardian)
• Rare All-White Kiwi Born in New Zealand Breeding Program (Scientific American)
• Feathers: 200 million years in just over 3 minutes (RichardDawkins.Net)
• What makes us humans: genetics, culture of both? (The Conversation)
• Human ancestor’s diet changed 3.5 million years ago (BBC News, June 2013)

Websites:

• Evolution and Natural Selection – University of Michigan (2010)
• Evolution 101 – Understanding Evolution – University of California Museum of Paleontology /National Center for Science Education (last access: June, 2013)
• Actionbioscience: How Evolution Works – Interview with evolutionary biologist Douglas Futuyma – Ametican Institute of Biological Sciences (last access: June, 2013)
• 10 examples of natural selection – Discovery (2013)
• Darwin and Natural Selection – Palomar College (2013)
• Evolution – PBS (2013)

Videos/Simulations:

• Simulation: Natural Selection (PhET)
• Camouflage: The most intelligent mimic octopus in the world
• Five Fingers of Evolution (TED)
• Bang goes the theory: Evolution made simple (YouTube)
• Harvard Outreach Program: Animation => Evolution and Antibiotic Resistance
• Peacock spider (YouTube)
• Birds of Paradise – Planet Earth (YouTube): 1, 2
• Flamingo’s mating dance (YouTube)
• Evolution: it’s a thing (Biology Crash Course)

• Natural Selection (Biology Crash Course)