Darwin: Web Resources

Web Resources

Darwin & Evolution

Darwin

Charles Darwin: After the Origin
Cornell University's well-designed online exhibit offers 14 webpages that each present brief biographical background on Darwin and his work plus historical images. A resources link leads to approximtely 2 dozen other sites that focus on Darwin and his work.

Charles Darwin's Library
A work in progress, the goal of this project is to scan all of Darwin's marginalia and annotations. Transcriptions of Because Darwin's handwritten manuscripts and notes are sometimes hard to read, transcriptions have been added to aid researchers and others. See Darwin's mind at work. 

♦ Complete Works of Charles Darwin Online
So substantive, this searchable site won the Thackery Award from the international Society for the History of Natural History. It provides access to Darwin's writing and other materials: from Voyages of the Beagle to private papers, articles on everything from dust deposits at sea to bee breeding. Most are available as images of the originals, pdfs, and online text.

Darwin
The American Museum of Natural History matched its museum exhibit with an online version that offers eight parts, each with multiple entries: from The World Before Darwin and A Trip Around the World to A Life's Work and Evolution Today. Includes the Darwin Digital Library of Evolution.

Darwin Correspondence Project
Read and search the full text of more than 5,000 of Darwin's letters, check out misquotes, etc. This work-in-progress offers browsing via "themes" such as geology, life science, religion.

New York Times: Passages from "Origin"
"Few people who are not biologists read Darwin in the original. But his writing can still offer surprises, insights and pleasures, and it can be sampled here, with selections by prominent scientists of their favorite passages and discussions of why these passages are important."

Rewriting the Book of Nature
The National Library of Medicine's site, subtitled "Charles Darwin and the Rise of Evolutionary Theory," presents an eight-part introduction to On the Origins of Species, background on Darwin's seminal work, biography, references, and a gallery of images.

Evolution

Human Evolution
The American Museum of Natural History's exhibit includes a useful history and a comparison of human, Neanderthal, and chimpanzee anatomy. Evolution presents a wealth of snapshots and background on Darwin's "dangerous idea."

New Scientist: Evolution
This popular science periodical offers recent articles, short videos, information on misconceptions about evolution, links to human evolution, and more.

♦ Understanding Evolution
UC-Berkeley’s award-winning "one-stop source for information on evolution" includes tutorials on the basics, videos on phylogenetics, the history of evolutionary theory, the fossil record, and evolution in the news.