Resource Guide:
Evolution

The following websites are librarian-evaluated to provide trustworthy information for your topic. They include digitized collections connected to your topic.

• Becoming Human | Evolution Resources
• Timeline of Evolutionary Thought
• Institute of Human Origins
• Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History
• The Complete Works of Charles Darwin Online
• The Scopes "Monkey" Trial
• American Museum of Natural History: Human Origins
• European Society for Evolutionary Biology: A Guide to the Creationism/Evolution Controversy

Subject headings are selected terms to represent a topic. Searching subject headings in the library catalog will bring the most complete list of results. Below are some example subject headings. More subject headings can be located in the red books at the reference desk.

• Evolution
• Evolution (Biology)
• Social Evolution
• Creationism
• Teleology
• Coevolution
• Epigenesis
• Evolutionary Genetics
• Group Selection (Evolution)
• Homology
• Human Evolution
• Life - Origin
• Macroevolution
• Equilibrium
• Natural Selection
• Phylogeny
• Evolution (Biology) - History
• Evolution (Biology) - Philosophy
• Evolution (Biology) - Research
• Evolution - Moral and Ethical Aspects
• Evolution - Study and Teaching - Law and Legislation

The following databases are specifically useful for your topic. You can search them individually on the databases page.

• Academic Search Complete
• ArXiv
• Environment Complete
• PubMed

The following journals supply articles to the library’s databases. You can see if a specific journal supplies articles to our databases by searching the journal title on the library journal page.

• Evolution
• Evolution and Development
• Evolutionary Applications
• Evolutionary Bioinformatics Online
• Journal of Human Evolution

Below are some selected materials in the library with their shelving locations. Browsing in the listed areas of the library will help you find more materials for your topic.