- Nature's Holism - http://www.ecotao.com/holism/
Online book attempting a synthesis of contemporary ecological theory with concepts derived from Taoism.
- Human Evolutionary Ecology Group - http://www.ucl.ac.uk/heeg/
Research group convened by Ruth Mace at University College London studying human behaviour and life history as adaptations to local environments. Summaries of research projects and details of graduate study opportunities.
- Evolutionary Ecology Research - http://www.evolutionary-ecology.com/
A scientific journal which has some sample readings available. Articles are rather technical but provide a good insight into contemporary evolutionary research.
- UCMP Evolution Wing - http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/history/evolution.html
Excellent evolution resource provided by the University of California. Also contains an interesting account of Darwin's evolutionary antecendants.
- Centre for the Study of Evolution - University of Sussex - http://www.biols.susx.ac.uk/CSE/index.htm
A distinguished research group founded by the eminent Prof John Maynard-Smith. The group runs both under and post graduate courses on evolution and an 'all welcome' weekly seminar series.
- International Journal of Organic Evolution - http://evol.allenpress.com/evolonline/?request=index-html
The objectives of the Society for the Study of Evolution, are the promotion of the study of organic evolution and the integration of the various fields of science concerned with evolution. This scientific journal has a good subject search facility
- Origin of the Species - http://www.literature.org/authors/darwin-charles/the-origin-of-species/
Despite being published before the discovery of DNA, Darwin's 1859 classic remains a robust describtion of evolution by natural selection.
- Evolution & Diversité Biologique laboratory - http://www.edb.ups-tlse.fr
The Evolution & Diversité Biologique is a joint Research laboratory between CNRS and the Toulouse University Paul Sabatier. It deals with Ecological, Evolutionary and Biodiversity Research in various taxa as Mushrooms, Plants, Insects, Mammals and birds. Some English pages available.
- Juan Armando Sanchez project: branching nature - http://www.branchingnature.org/
A fully referenced devotion to the study of branching in nature i.e. organisms containing branching networks (corals and octocorals), and the tools to study branching.
- The evolution of dispersal - http://www.archidictus.org/theory/dispersal.html
Nicholas Friedenberg has demonstrated the evolution of dispersal experimentally using the soil nematode C. elegans.
- Trends in Ecology & Evolution - http://www.trends.com/tree/
A peer-reviewed scientific journal that provides succinct summaries, opinion, and discussion of current research in all aspects of ecology and evolutionary biology, from molecular to global.
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