Evolution (April 2006)
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Cover; Evolution; by Staff Editor; 1 Page(s)

Table of Contents; Evolution; by Staff Editor; 1 Page(s)

15 Answers to Creationist Nonsense; Evolution; by John Rennie; 8 Page(s)

Opponents of evolution want to make a place for creationism by tearing down real science, but their arguments don't hold up (originally published July 2002)

The Evolution of Life on Earth; Evolution; by Stephen Jay Gould; 7 Page(s)

The history of life is not necessarily progressive; it is certainly not predictable. The earth's creatures have evolved through a series of contigent and fortuitous events (originally published in Dinosaurs and Other Monsters)

The Early Evolution of Animals; Evolution; by David J. Bottjer; 6 Page(s)

Tiny fossils reveal that complex animal life is older than we thought--by at least as much as 50 million years (originally published August 2005)

Getting a Leg Up on Land; Evolution; by Jennifer A. Clack; 8 Page(s)

Recent fossil discoveries cast light on the evolution of four-limbed animals from fish (originally published December 2005)

The Origin of Birds and Their Flight; Evolution; by Kevin Padian and Luis M. Chiappe; 9 Page(s)

Anatomical and aerodynamic analyses of fossils and living birds show that birds evolved from small, predatory dinosaurs that lived on the ground (originally published February 1998)

The Mammals That Conquered the Seas; Evolution; by Kate Wong; 9 Page(s)

New fossils and DNA analyses elucidate the remarkable evolutionary history of whales (originally published in Dinosaurs and Other Monsters)

An Ancestor to Call Our Own; Evolution; by Kate Wong; 8 Page(s)

Controversial new fossils could bring scientists closer than ever to the origin of humanity (originally published in New Look at Human Evolution)

Cichlids of the Rift Lakes; Evolution; by Melanie L. J. Stiassny and Axel Meyer; 6 Page(s)

The extraordinary diversity of cichlid fishes challenges entrenched ideas of how quickly new species can arise (originally published February 1999)

Evolution and the Origins of Disease; Evolution; by Randolph M. Nesse and George C. Williams; 6 Page(s)

The principles of evolution by natural selection are finally beginning to inform medicine (originally published November 1998)

Insights: Teach the Science; Evolution; by Steve Mirsky; 2 Page(s)

Wherever evolution education is under attack by creationist thinking, Eugenie Scott will be there to defend science (originally published February 2006)