Browse Items (10 total)

Harrington, Eileen. Falk, Nickolas. Parks, Cecelia. Bachhuber, Rebekah, Evolution 10, 2015-03

Gives information on the panel that followed the poster exhibit.

Tags: discussion, evolution, panel

Harrington, Eileen. Falk, Nickolas. Parks, Cecelia. Bachhuber, Rebekah, Evolution 9, The Priddy Library at the Universities at Shady Grove, 2015-03

Explains homologous structures in animals.

Tags: analogous structures, evolution, functions, homologous structures, similar structures

Harrington, Eileen. Falk, Nickolas. Parks, Cecelia. Bachhuber, Rebekah, Evolution 8, The Priddy Library at the Universities at Shady Grove, 2015-03

Describes how changes in society and politics were influenced by Darwin's theory of evolution, also known as social Darwinism.

Tags: biological differences, colonialism, eugenics, evolution, Herbert Spencer, imperialism, laissez-faire, power, racism, social Darwinism, socioeconomic status, survival of the fittest

Harrington, Eileen. Falk, Nickolas. Parks, Cecelia. Bachhuber, Rebekah, Evolution 7, The Priddy Library at the Universities at Shady Grove, 2015-03

Focuses on more recent contributors to evolution such as Theodosius Dobzhansky, Rosalind Franklin, James Watson, Francis Crick, Stephen Jay Gould,…

Tags: Caroll, Crick, DNA, Dobzhansky, Eldredge, evolution, evolutionary change, evolutionary developmental biology, evolutionary synthesis, Franklin, genetics, Gould, helix, neo-Darwinists, punctuation equilibrium theory, Watson, x-ray crystallography

Harrington, Eileen. Falk, Nickolas. Parks, Cecelia. Bachhuber, Rebekah, Evolution 6, The Priddy Library at the Universities at Shady Grove, 2015-03

Highlights early evolutionary thinkers Carl Linnaeus, Mary Anning, Gregor Mendel, Charles Darwin, and Alfred Russel Wallace.

Tags: Anning, classification, Darwin, evolution, fossils, Galapagos Islands, genetics, geology, homo sapiens, inheritance, Linnaeus, Malay Archipelago, Mendel, natural selection, pea plants, Wallace

Harrington, Eileen. Falk, Nickolas. Parks, Cecelia. Bachhuber, Rebekah, Evolution 5, The Priddy Library at the Universities at Shady Grove, 2015-03

Highlights some of the social implications of the theory of evolution in the United States while also explaining the differences between scientific…

Tags: 1925, creation, evolution, facts, hypotheses, John Thomas Scopes, popular theory, public education, scientific theory, Scopes Monkey trial, speculation

Harrington, Eileen. Falk, Nickolas. Parks, Cecelia. Bachhuber, Rebekah, Evolution 4, The Priddy Library at the Universities at Shady Grove, 2015-03

Describes the differences and similarities between humans and apes.

Tags: apes, bipedalism, cerebral cortex, differences, DNA, evolution, humans, language, opposable thumbs, similarities, spoken language

Harrington, Eileen. Falk, Nickolas. Parks, Cecelia. Bachhuber, Rebekah, Evolution 3, The Priddy Library at the Universities at Shady Grove, 2015-03

Explains genetically modified organisms (GMOs), artificial selection, and vestgial structures.

Tags: artificial selection, evolution, genetic engineering, GMOs, macroevolution, resistance, useless appendages, vestigial structures

Harrington, Eileen. Falk, Nickolas. Parks, Cecelia. Bachhuber, Rebekah, Evolution 2, The Priddy Library at the Universities at Shady Grove, 2015-03

Explains the varying types of evolution found in nature such as microevolution and coevolution.

Tags: coevolution, evolution, evolutionary changes, microevolution, mutualistic relationships, predator-prey relationships, theory

Harrington, Eileen. Falk, Nickolas. Parks, Cecelia. Bachhuber, Rebekah, Evolution 1, The Priddy Library at the Universities at Shady Grove, 2015-03

Introduces the scientific and social impacts of the theory of evolution presented in Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species.

Tags: competition, controversy, Darwin, evolution, genetics, geology, impact, inheritance, life sciences, On the Origin of Species, scientific, social, theory, variation