"Ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny." - Ernst Haeckel

Supplementary videos

Charles Darwin biography (Discovery Education)
Vampire Finch: annoying but resourceful
Darwin and the Galapagos Islands 11 frames
The extinct banana: dangers of genetic fixation
Collecting turkey semen: it's a dirty job (male cloaca and phallus)
Inseminating turkeys: they can't do it (female cloaca: oviduct and poop hole)
Caspian Terns cloacal kiss: how they do it
Darwin's pigeons: artificial selection
Monito del Monte: a South American marsupial
Archaeopteryx: the feathered dinosaur
Birds Lost Their Teeth over 100 Million Years Ago - genome data December 2014
Whales and hippos, oh my: show me the intermediate fossils (University of Nebraska State Museum)
Analogous bird beaks: convergent evolution between hummingbird and sunbird
Homologous structures: Hox gene in embryos (What Darwin Didn't Know)
Galapagos Finch Evolution: Peter and Rosemary Grant

Extra credit readings

• Darwin's theory of atoll formation The voyage of the Beagle 1839
• Darwin's study on barnacles Living Cirripedia 1954
• Darwin's experiments on mud on birds' feet The Origin of Species 1859
• Darwin's sexual selection theory best explanation for gender differences Mizzou Weekly 4/22/10
• Darwin's study on plant hormones The Power of Movement of Plants 1881
• Darwin's Earthworm Experiments Broke New Ground NPR 2/12/09
• On the Origin of Darwin's Finches Molecular Biology and Evolution 10/24/2000
• Yes, we have no bananas The Economist 5/1/14
• New Fossils Challenge Marsupial Evolution Theory Sci-News 7/25/13
• Archaeopteryx: The Transitional Fossil Science 4/28/15
• International team maps Big Bang of bird speciation Genome 10K 12/11/14
• Is The Hippopotamus The Closest Living Relative To The Whale? University of Calgary 3/19/2009
• If pharyngeal slits turn into gills, why don't humans have gills? University of Waikato 5/31/11

Additional material

• Plate tectonics animation
• Blind spot test: imperfect adaptation for sight

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