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Human activities continue to influence our climate on a global scale, but a number of other interlinked mechanisms also play a role.
Ages: 14-16, 16-19;
How do new species – or completely new types of organism – emerge? Time and separation are the key factors.
Ages: 16-19;
Encourage your students to enter our writing competition – and see their work published.
Ages: <11, 11-14, 14-16, 16-19;
How short is ‘very short’? Well, pretty short – between 120 and 150 pages. The pages are small, too, 175 mm x 110 mm, but then so is the type. ‘Introduction?’ …well, it depends what’s being introduced.
Ages: not applicable;
Teachers and many older school students will enjoy Dance of the Tiger, a very unusual fictional story written by a scientist about his own subject.
Ages: 16-19;
This short book describes the development of Charles Darwin’s The Origin of Species and examines its wider impact.
Ages: 16-19;
These two DVD sets, produced by the Howard Hughes Medical Institute as part of its Holiday Lectures on Science programme, address two highly interesting subjects which directly or indirectly affect our everyday lives: biological clocks and evolution.
Ages: 16-19;
Pongprapan Pongsophon, Vantipa Roadrangka and Alison Campbell from Kasetsart University in Bangkok, Thailand, demonstrate how a difficult concept in evolution can be explained with equipment as simple as a box of buttons!
Ages: 14-16, 16-19;
“If you are not interested in how evolution came about, and cannot conceive how anyone could be seriously concerned about anything other than human affairs, then do not read it: it will only make you needlessly angry,” wrote John Maynard Smith about The Selfish Gene.
Ages: 16-19;
In The Origin of Species, published in 1859, Charles Darwin described evolution as a process subject to diverse influences. Natural selection, of course, leads to adaptation in a manner similar to the changes elicited by breeders of pets or livestock.
Ages: 16-19;
| Issue 47
Ten things that affect our climate
Topics: Physics, Biology, Earth science
| Issue 44
Evolution in action: from genetic change to new species
Topics: Biology, Science and society
| Issue 36
Student competition: the search for the strangest species on Earth
Topics: Physics, Biology, Chemistry
| Issue 17
Very Short Introductions to Evolution, Human Evolution and the History of Life, By Brian and Deborah Charlesworth (Evolution), Bernard Wood (Human Evolution) and Michael J Benton (The History of Life)
Topics: Resources
| Issue 8
Dance of the Tiger, By Björn Kurtén
Topics: Resources
| Issue 7
Darwin’s ‘The Origin of Species’, By Janet Browne
Topics: Resources
| Issue 7
Clockwork Genes: Discoveries in Biological Time and Evolution: Constant Change and Common Threads
Topics: Resources
| Issue 6
Counting Buttons: demonstrating the Hardy-Weinberg principle
Topics: Biology
| Issue 5
The Selfish Gene and Richard Dawkins: How a Scientist Changed the Way We Think, By Richard Dawkins
Topics: Resources
| Issue 1
Evolution in Four Dimensions: Genetic, Epigenetic, Behavioral, and Symbolic Variation in the History of Life, By Eva Jablonka and Marion J. Lamb
Topics: Resources
