Tree of Life Web Project The Tree of Life Web Project (ToL) is a collaborative effort of biologists and nature enthusiasts from around the world. On more than 10,000 World Wide Web pages, the project provides information about biodiversity, the characteristics of different groups of organisms, and their evolutionary history (phylogeny). Each page contains information about a particular group, e.g., salamanders, segmented worms, phlox flowers, tyrannosaurs, euglenids, Heliconius butterflies, club fungi, or the vampire squid. ToL pages are linked one to another hierarchically, in the form of the evolutionary tree of life. Starting with the root of all Life on Earth and moving out along diverging branches to individual species, the structure of the ToL project thus illustrates the genetic connections between all living things.
Human Evolution: The fossil evidence in 3D Welcome to the UCSB online 3D gallery of modern primate relatives and fossil ancestors of humans. This gallery contains five modern primate crania, and five fossil crania. The crania can be rotated 360 degrees. Each cranium is accompanied by a short description of its relevance to human evolution, and a site map. You will need the Shockwave plugin from Macromedia to view this gallery (most browsers have this installed already). If necessary, you can obtain this plugin here. Click here to enter the gallery. Click here for information on the much largerCD-ROM version. Trouble viewing the gallery? The gallery was developed by Phillip Walker and Ed Hagen, Department of Anthropology, University of California, Santa Barbara. This site also hosts the Evolutionary Psychology FAQ
Mantık hataları: top 10 « no dry light This post is not in English, it’s in Turkish, but you can nonetheless join the discussion by voting and commenting. The question is: <a href=" Our Poll</a> Şakadanak önünüze koyageldiğim bu anketten ve başlık kısmından da anlayacağınız üzere bu yazımızın konusu, mantık hataları (nam-ı diğer fallacies). Tartışmak, fikir teatisinde bulunmak zor iş. Mantık hatalarının ne olduğunu bilmenin en önemli işlevi de bu sanırım. Evet bu da ayrı bir dert, yukarıdaki ilk (Türkçe) paragraftaki ‘fallacies’ başlığı wikipedia’daki ilgili sayfaya yönlenirken ‘mantık hataları’ bkz’ı neden boş diye düşünüyor olabilirsiniz. 10. Açıklama: Birbiriyle ilintili olduğu düşünülen iki olay veya nesnenin, bir özelliklerinin gerçekten de ortak olabileceğini kabul ederken, başka özelliklerinin farklılık gösterebileceğini, böylece benzeşimin hatalı olabileceğini dikkate almamak. 9. Örnek: “Ya sev ya terket!” 8. 7. 6. 5. Açıklama: Latince: ‘Adama, kişiye’ (to the man). 4. 3. Örnek:
Chimps vs. Humans: How Are We Different? "Give orange me give eat orange me eat orange give me eat orange give me you." That's the longest string of words that Nim Chimpsky, a chimpanzee who scientists raised as a human and taught sign language in the 1970s, ever signed. He was the subject of Project Nim, an experiment conducted by cognitive scientists at Columbia University to investigate whether chimps can learn language. After years of exposing Nim to all things human, the researchers concluded that although he did learn to express demands — the desire for an orange, for instance — and knew 125 words, he couldn't fully grasp language, at least as they defined it. Many cognitive scientists believe that humans' ability to innovate by varying syntax engenders much of the richness and complexity of our thoughts and ideas. Stance Humans are bipedal, and except for short bouts of uprightness, great apes walk on all fours. Thus, our ancestors stood up in the scrubby, dry areas of Africa. Strength Conversation Why does he think that?
sScienceMap On the Origin of Cooperative Species: New study reverses a decade of research claiming chimpanzee selfishness | The Primate Diaries A new study reverses a decade of research claiming chimpanzee selfishness. "Sharing is Caring" by Nathaniel Gold Charles Darwin had more in common with chimpanzees than even he realized. Before he was universally known for his theory of natural selection, the young naturalist was faced with one of the great moral choices in the history of science. The decision he made has long been hailed as the type of behavior that fundamentally separates humans from other apes. On the morning of June 18, 1858, a parcel arrived that threatened to undo the originality of Darwin’s masterwork. “Even his terms now stand as heads of my chapters,” Darwin wrote, almost in a panic. What should he do? “I would far rather burn my whole book than that he or any man should think that I had behaved in a paltry spirit,” he wrote to Charles Lyell, his friend and mentor. Figure 1. Figure 2. As Carl Sagan famously wrote, “Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.” Reference: Victoria Horner, J.
“Kriptografi Gördüm”, Wunjo… » ABD Doktora Programları SSS Bu defa da ABD’deki doktora programları konusunda şu sıralarda kendisi de başvurularla uğraşmakta olan Arman Aksoy‘un hazırladığı Sıkça Sorulan Sorular (ve yaşasın ki cevapları!) ile karşınızdayız.Arman Boğaziçi Üniversitesi Moleküler Biyoloji ve Genetik Bölümü’nden önümüzdeki sene mezun olacak. Kendisi aynı zamanda bir Linux-sever ve Evrimi Anlamak sitesinin yapımına pek çok katkıları olmuş en hasından bir Evrim Çalışkanı’dır. Yakından tanımak isterseniz bloguna bir göz atabilirsiniz.Arman’ın yazdıkları ile benim daha önce hazırladığım sorular ve cevaplar arasında örtüşen bölümler var, fakat Arman’ın deneyimleri daha güncel olduğu için sizlere daha faydalı olacaktır diye düşünüyorum. (Burada ben de yeşil renkle Arman’ın cevaplarına kimi eklemeler yaptım). Doktora programı ne kadar sürüyor? Pek çok okul için ortalama beş sene. Doktora programı süresince burs sağlanıyor mu? Doktora programlarına kabul edilmek ne kadar zor? Başvuru için belirli bir not ortalaması eşiği var mı?
Exhibition uses forensics to rebuild 27 faces of man's ancestors, stretching back 7m years Models built from forensic reconstruction of fossil skullsReconstructs face age when humans and chimps shared common ancestryAncestors from when 'hominids' first emerged in Africa By Rob Waugh Updated: 21:58 GMT, 6 January 2012 An exhibition in Dresden, Germany has used forensic technology to recreate some of the most distant members of the human evolutionary 'family' - ancestors stretching back seven million years. The 27 model heads were created using fossil remains, and includes a glimpse of sahelanthropus tchadensis, an ancestor dated to about seven million years ago, when our 'hominid 'ancestors' first originated in Africa. Sahelanthropus tchadensis lived seven million years ago - before the divergence of man and our closest evolutionary cousins, chimpanzees Homo rudolfensis lived around two million years ago. Paranthropus boisei lived 2million years ago and had a skull highly specialised for heavy chewing. Australopithecus Africanus lived around two milion years ago.
Media: The Annual Evolution Symposium Home > EOG > The Annual NABT Evolution Symposium The Annual NABT Evolution Symposium The American Institute of Biological Sciences (AIBS) and NESCent co-sponsor a symposium on evolution at the annual National Association of Biology Teachers (NABT) conference. The goal of the symposium is to bring applied and current evolutionary science to teachers for use in the classroom. Each year the symposium focuses on a different aspect of evolutionary science, and leading scientists give presentations on their research. Videos of the presentations are available for most years. From 2006 to the present, a collection of topical educational resources are developed for each symposium. 2013 Wallace, Islands and Biogeography - 100 Years Later 2012 Evolutionary Transformations: The legacies of two influential scientists on evolutionary thought 2011 Changing Humans in a Changing Environment 2011 Educational Resources Collection 2010 Molecular Insights in Classic Examples of Evolution 2008 Illuminating Biology
Technological evolution and intelligence « EvoAnth Archaeologists love to categorise things. It helps turn vague interpretations into concrete groupings (or typologies), speeding up the analysis of finds and allowing a quick and easy comparison between sites; even permitting one to track the evolution of technology by identifying changes between groups. The first such “evolutionary” typology came from Denmark and postulated there was a Stone Age, followed by the Bronze Age and finally the Iron Age. Which means playing this counts as studying, right? However, nothing really happened in the Bronze and Iron ages. But how can one track the evolution of sharp rocks into sharp rocks on sticks if they’re both considered “Stone Age?” This is where the mode system comes in. This diagram is amazing (coincidentally, I made it myself) From this, one can start to infer something about the mental ability of those who made the tools. “I could make a civilisation, I choose not too” It has been proposed that looking for “concepts” fits the bill. Like this:
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