Resources  

Selected Books and Articles

Carruthers, Peter. Human Knowledge and Human Nature: A New Introduction to the Ancient Debate. Oxford University Press, 1992.

Eldredge, Niles. Darwin: Discovering the Tree of Life. W.W. Norton and Company, 2005.

Fastovsky, David, and David B. Weishampel. The Evolution and Extinction of the Dinosaurs. Cambridge University Press, 1996.

Gianquitto, Tina. "Good Observers of Nature:" American Women and the Scientific Study of the Natural World, 1820-1885. University of Georgia Press, 2007.

Kitcher, Philip. Living with Darwin: Evolution, Design, and the Future of Faith. Oxford University Press, 2007.

Leakey, Richard. The Origins of Humankind. BasicBooks, 1994.

Leakey, Richard, and Roger Lewin. Origins Reconsidered: In Search of What Makes Us Human. Doubleday, 1992.

Mindell, David. "Putting Evolution to Use in the Everyday World." Scientific American. December 2008. Last accessed 24 March 2009.

Quammen, David. "Darwin's First Clues." National Geographic Magazine. February 2009.
Last accessed 24 March 2009.

Quammen, David. "The Man Who Wasn't Darwin." National Geographic Magazine. December 2008.
Last accessed 24 March 2009.

Scott, Eugenie. Evolution vs. Creationism: An Introduction. Greenwood Press, 2004.

Stix, Gary. "Darwin's Living Legacy--Evolutionary Theory 150 Years Later." Scientific American. December 2008. Last accessed 24 March 2009.

Web Resources

• Darwin - an online exhibit developed and maintained by the American Museum of Natural History.
  
  
• Internet Resources on Charles Darwin and on Evolutionary Biology - developed by the Virtual Library of Biology (vifabio), a project of the University Library "Johann Christian Senckenberg", Frankfurt/Main (Germany), the site aims to "compile the most important internet resources" on the subject of Darwin and evolutionary biology along with other information.
  
  
• Legacy of Charles Darwin - published by Actionbioscience.org, the article summarizes Darwin's observations of nature that led to his ideas; evolution via natural selection as the basis of all of biology; Darwin's impact on our understanding of the sciences; and how evolution continues to affect us today.