Introduction to Evolution and Natural Selection
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Khan Academy video in which Sal Khan introduces evolution by natural selection: how mutations and genetic recombination create variation within a population, and how environmental pressures favor some variants over generations. Provides the conceptual groundwork needed before studying human evolution.
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SAPIENS: A Podcast for Everything Human
What makes you … you? And who tells what stories and why? In the SAPIENS podcast, listeners will hear a range of human stories: from the origins of the chili pepper to how prosecutors decide someone is a criminal to stolen skulls from Iceland. Join SAPIENS on our latest journey to explore what it means to be human.
AnthroSource
The American Anthropological Association's journal portal on Wiley, hosting American Anthropologist and the association's section journals. Useful for searching peer-reviewed research and review articles in biological anthropology, though most full text requires institutional access or AAA membership.
Human Biology and Evolution
Rice University introductory course on evolutionary biology taught by Scott Solomon: the history of evolutionary thought from Darwin and Wallace, natural selection and Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium, speciation and phylogenetic trees, and the fossil, biogeographic and anatomical evidence for evolution.
proquest.com/anthropology
ProQuest Anthropology is a research platform that provides access to a wide range of anthropology content from ProQuest, including full-text journal articles, dissertations and theses, and ebooks. It covers physical anthropology topics such as human evolution, primatology, and archaeology, with tools to search, cite, and export scholarly sources.