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Learning About LIFE
 Anyone can experience the journey of life through time. The web links listed below offer access to up-to-date information about the story of life on Earth. These links include some of the leading scientific and educational institutions engaged in research and outreach, the media and conservation organizations whose efforts dovetail with scientific discoveries, and a selection of the many outstanding museums and research collections where you can learn more about the subjects featured in this book.
Science and Education
Scientific Institutions and Organizations:
American Association for the Advancement of Science, Washington, DC: www.aaas.org
Astrobiology at NASA: http://astrobiology.arc.nasa.gov
Earth System Science Center, University Park, PA: www.essc.psu.edu
Earth System Science Education, Columbia, MD: www.usra.edu/esse
European Space Agency, Paris, France: www.esa.int
National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Washington, DC: www.nasa.gov
NASA-Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, South San Francisco, CA: www.nasa.gov/centers/ames/home/index.html
National Academy of Sciences, Washington, DC: www.nas.edu
National Human Genome Research Institute, Bethesda, MD: www.genome.gov
National Science Foundation, Arlington, VA: www.nsf.gov
The Royal Society, London, England: www.royalsoc.ac.uk
Society for the Study of Evolution: www.evolutionsociety.org
United States Geological Survey, Washington, DC: www.usgs.gov
University of California Santa Cruz, Center for Biomolecular Science and Engineering:www.cbse.ucsc.edu
 Education and Media:
British Broadcasting Corporation:www.bbc.co.uk
E. O. Wilson Biodiversity Foundation: www.eowbf.org
National Geographic Society: www.ngs.com
Public Broadcasting Service: www.pbs.org
Timelines:
International Commission on Stratigraphy (authority on geologic dates): www.stratigraphy.org
BBC Education/Evolution Website: www.bbc.co.uk/education/darwin/index.shtml
Enchanted Learning: www.enchantedlearning.com
History of the Universe: www.historyoftheuniverse.com
Palaeos: www.palaeos.com
Timelines of History: www.timelines.ws
The Tree of Life: www.tolweb.org/tree/phylogeny.html
University of Waikato, New Zealand/Timeline of Evolution: www.sci.waikato.ac.nz/evolution/EvolutionOfLife.shtml
Wikipedia: www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_evolution
Online encyclopedias:
Encyclopaedia Britannica: www.britannica.com
Wikipedia: www.wikipedia.org
Museums , Aquariums , and Collections
Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia, PA: www.acnatsci.org
American Museum of Natural History, New York, NY: www.amnh.org
The Australian Museum, Sydney, Australia: www.austmus.gov.au
Boston Science Center, Boston, MA:
California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco, CA: www.calacademy.org
Cambridge University Museum of Zoology, Cambridge, England: www.cam.ac.uk
Carnegie Museum of Natural History, Pittsburgh, PA: www.carnegiemnh.org
Denver Museum of Natural History, CO: www.dmnh.org
The Field Museum, Chicago, IL: www.fieldmuseum.org
Florence Museum of Natural History, Florence, Italy: www.unifi.it/unifi/msn
Harvard Museum of Natural History, Cambridge, MA: www.hmnh.harvard.edu
Houston Museum of Natural History, Houston, TX: www.hmns.org
Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, MA: www.mbl.edu
Missouri Botanical Garden, St. Louis, MO: www.mobot.org
Monterey Bay Aquarium, Monterey, CA: www.mbayaq.org
Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales, Madrid, Spain: www.mncn.csic.es
Museum für Naturkunde, Berlin, Germany: www.museum.hu-berlin.de
Museum Mensch und Natur, Munich, Germany: www.musmn.de
Museum of New Zealand Te PapaTongarewa, Wellington, New Zealand: www.tepapa.govt.nz
Museum of the Earth, Ithaca, NY: www.museumoftheearth.org
Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle, Paris, France: www.mnhn.fr
National Museum of Kenya, Nairobi, Kenya: www.museums.or.ke
Natural History Museum, London, England: www.nhm.ac.uk
Naturalis, the National Museum of Natural History, Leiden, Netherlands: www.naturalis.nl
Oxford University Museum of Natural History, Oxford, England: www.oum.ox.ac.uk
Peabody Museum of Natural History, New Haven, CT: www.peabody.yale.edu
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Surrey, England: www.rbgkew.org.uk
Royal Tyrrell Museum of Paleontology, Alberta, Canada: www.tyrrellmuseum.com
Science Museum, Tokyo, Japan: www.jsf.or.jp
Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History, Washington, DC: www.mnh.si.edu
South African National Biodiversity Institute and the Kirstenbosch Botanical Garden, Cape Town, South Africa: www.nbi.ac.za
The Swedish Museum of Natural History, Stockholm, Sweden: www.nrm.se
Sydney Aquarium, Sydney, Australia: www.sydneyaquarium.com.au
University of California at Berkeley Museum of Paleontology, Berkeley, CA: www.ucmp.berkeley.edu
University of Nebraska State Museum: www.explore-evolution.unl.edu
Vancouver Aquarium, Vancouver, Canada: www.vanaqua.org
Western Australian Museum, Perth, Australia: www.museum.wa.gov.au
Conservation
BirdLife International, Cambridge, England: www.birdlife.org
Conservation International, Washington, DC: www.conservation.org
Frankfurt Zoological Society, Frankfurt, Germany: www.zgf.de
Nature Environment France: www.fne.asso.fr
Oceana, Washington, DC: www.oceana.org
The Nature Conservancy, Arlington, VA: www.nature.org
Wildlife Conservation Society, Bronx, NY: www.wcs.org
World Conservation Union, Gland, Switzerland: www.iucn.org
World Wildlife Fund USA, Washington, DC: www.worldwildlife.org
WWF-France, Paris, France: www.wwf.fr
WWF-Germany, Frankfurt, Germany: www.wwf.de
WWF-International, Gland, Switzerland: www.panda.org
WWF-Netherlands, Zeist, Netherlands: www.wnf.nl
WWF-Spain, Madrid, Spain: www.wwf.es
Readings
 Attenborough, David. Life on Earth. Little, Brown, 1979.
Ball, Philip. The Self-made Tapestry: Pattern Formation in Nature. Oxford University Press, 1999.
Ball, Philip. Life’s Matrix: A Biography of Water. University of California Press, 2001.
Beard, Chris. The Hunt for the Dawn Monkey. University of California Press, 2004.
Briggs, John. Fractals: The Patterns of Chaos. Simon and Schuster, 1992.
Burnett, Nancy and Brad Matsen. The Shape of Life. Monterey Bay Aquarium Press, 2002.
Colbert, Edwin H. Wandering Lands and Animals: The Story of Continental Drift and Animal Populations. Dover Publications, 1985.
Cowen, Richard. History of Life. Blackwell Science, 2000.
Darling, David. Life Everywhere: The Maverick Science of Astrobiology. Basic Books, 2001.
Darwin, Charles. On the Origin of Species. John Murray, 1859.
Dawkins, Richard. The Blind Watchmaker. W. W. Norton, 1986.
Dawkins, Richard. The Ancestor’s Tale. Houghton Mifflin, 2004.
Dawkins, Richard. Climbing Mount Improbable. W. W. Norton, 1996.
Diamond, Jared M. The Third Chimpanzee. HarperCollins, 1992.
Eldridge, Niles. The Pattern of Evolution. W. H. Freeman, 1999.
Eiseley, Loren. The Immense Journey. Random House, 1946.
Erwin, D. H. Extinction: How Life on Earth Nearly Ended 250 Million Years Ago. Princeton University Press, 2006.
Fenton, Carroll Lane, Mildred Adams Fenton, Patricia Vickers Rich, and Thomas Hewitt Rich. The Fossil Book: A Record of Prehistoric Life. Dover Publications, 1996.
Flannery, Tim. The Future Eaters. Reed Books, 1994.
Flannery, Tim. The Eternal Frontier. Grove Press, 2001.
Fortey, Richard. Life: An Unauthorized Biography. Alfred A. Knopf, 1997.
Fortey, Richard. Trilobite: Eyewitness to Evolution. Alfred A. Knopf, 2000.
Gould, Stephen Jay. Wonderful Life. W. W. Norton, 1989.
Gould, Stephen Jay. The Book of Life. W. W. Norton, 1993.
Haas, Ernst. The Creation. Viking Press, 1970.
Knoll, Andrew. Life on a Young Planet. Princeton University Press, 2003.
Lane, Nick. Oxygen: The Molecule that made the World. Oxford University Press, 2002.
Lovelock, James. Gaia, A New Look at Life on Earth. Oxford University Press, 1979.
Lovelock, James. Homage to Gaia. Oxford University Press, 2000.
Lovelock, James. The Ages of Gaia, A Biography of Our Living Earth. W. W. Norton, 1988.
Macdonald, David. The Velvet Claw: A Natural History of the Carnivores. BBC Books, 1992.
Margulis, Lynn. Symbiotic Planet. Basic Books, 1998.
Margulis, Lynn and Dorion Sagan. Microcosmos: Four Billion Years of Microbial Evolution. University of California Press, 1986.
Margulis, Lynn and Dorion Sagan. Slanted Truths: Essays on Gaia, Symbiosis and Evolution. Copernicus, 1997.
Margulis, Lynn and Dorion Sagan. What is Life? University of California Press, 1995.
Margulis, Lynn and Karlene V. Schwartz. Five Kingdoms. W. H. Freeman, 2001.
Martin, Paul. Twilight of the Mammoths. University of California Press, 2005.
Martin, Paul and H. Wright. Pleistocene Extinctions: The Search for a Cause. Yale University Press, 1967.
Mayr, Ernst. Evolution and the Diversity of Life. Harvard University Press, 1976.
McPhee, John. Annals of the Former World. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1998.
Morrison, Reg. Australia: Land Beyond Time. Cornell University Press, 2002.
Page, Barbara. Rock of Ages, Sands of Time. University of Chicago Press, 2001.
Parker, Andrew. In the Blink of an Eye. Free Press, 2003.
Quammen, David. The Song of the Dodo: Island Biogeography in an Age of Extinctions. Scribner, 1996.
Sagan, Carl. Cosmos. Random House, 1980.
Schopf, J. William. Cradle of Life. Princeton University Press, 1999.
Smil, Vaclav. The Earth’s Biosphere. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2002.
Spinar, Zdenek V. and Zdenek Burian. Life Before Man. Thames and Hudson, 1972.
Thomas, Lewis. The Lives of a Cell. Bantam Books, 1974.
Thompson, D’Arcy Wentworth. On Growth and Form. Cambridge University Press, 1942.
Tudge, Colin. Variety of Life: A Survey and a Celebration of all the Creatures that Have Ever Lived. Oxford University Press, 2000.
Turney, Jon. Lovelock and Gaia: Signs of Life. Columbia University Press, 2003.
Vernadsky, Vladimir. The Biosphere. Springer-Verlag, 1997.
Walker, Gabrielle. Snowball Earth. Three Rivers Press, 2003.
Ward, Peter Douglas. The Call of Distant Mammoths. Copernicus, 1997.
Ward, Peter Douglas. On Methuselah’s Trail: Living Fossils and the Great Extinctions. W. H. Freeman, 1992.
Ward, Peter D. and Donald Brownlee. The Life and Death of Planet Earth. Times Books, 2002.
Wegener, Alfred. The Origin of Continents and Oceans. Dover Publications, 1966.
White, Mary E. Earth Alive! From Microbes to a Living Planet. Rosenberg, 2003.
White, Mary E. The Flowering of Gondwana. Princeton University Press, 1990.
Wilson, Edward O. The Diversity of Life. Harvard University Press, 1992.
Woese, Carl. “Bacterial evolution,” Microbiological Reviews 51:221-271, 1987.
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