HISTORY OF LIFE

1. The Origin of Life
   
2. Earth's Earliest Life
   
3. Sex and Nuclei: Eukaryotes
   
4. The Evolution of Animals
   
5. Life in a Changing World
   
6. Extinction
   
7. The Early Vertebrates
   
8. Leaving the Water
   
9. Amphibians and Reptiles
   
10. Reptiles and Thermoregulation
    
11. Triassic Takeover
    
12. Dinosaurs
    
13. Warm-Blooded Dinosaurs?
    
14. The Evolution of Flight
    
15. The Origin of Mammals
    
16. Marine Reptiles
    
17. Why Flowers are Beautiful
    
18. The End of the Dinosaurs
    
19. Cenozoic Mammals
    
20. Geography and Evolution
    
21. Primates
    
22. Evolving Toward Humans
    
23. The Ice Age
    
24. Humans and the Ice Age
    

Life in a Changing World

The Global Diversity Gradient

• NASA's Photo Gallery
• Earth Viewer
• Virtual Library of Ecology, Biodiversity, and the Environment
• The Mechanism Behind Modern Climate Zones

Islands and Continents

• NOAA's Environmental Information Services
• NASA's Phytoplankton Images
• Very Complete Links to Marine Labs and Other Ocean Sites
• Biology 317 Links to Selected Marine Labs of Interest
• Watch the 1997-98 El Niño and 98-99 La Niña
• Coastal Erosion from El-Niño Winter Storms
• Quicktime Animation of the July 17, 1998 Papua New Guinea Tsunami (1.4 megabytes)
• USGS Coastal and Marine Geology Program

Provinces

• Ecoregion Maps of the World
• Overview of Geography and Ecology of Species Distributions

Diversity Patterns in the Fossil Record

• Diversity Patterns through Time
• A Model for Climatic Change
• Nature Article Abstract and Supplementary Spreadsheet Data Set on
  Quality of the Fossil Record Through Time (Requires Free Log-in)
• Links to Paleontology and Fossils (Last Updated Feb. 2000)
• Humbolt State University's Life Through Time
• A Virtual Field Trip to a Permian Reef
• Fossil Collecting Sites in Southern California and Elsewhere in North America
• Kevin's Trilobite Website
• The Semi-Compleat Trilobite
• Giant Trilobites and Guide to the Orders of Trilobites
• The Permian Mass Extinction

Global Tectonics and Global Diversity

• Introduction to Plate Tectonics
• Animations of Continental Drift
• Home Site for Paleomap Project
• Simplified Maps of the Ancient Earth
• USGS Site on Marine Geology and Plate Tectonics
• USGS Site on Earthquakes and Plate Tectonics
• USGS Site on ABC's of Plate Tectonics
• Another Cool Site on Earthquakes and Plate Tectonics
• World Seafloor Map or Complete Map
• Earth's Interior and Plate Tectonics
• Volcanoes of the World
• The Formation of Pangaea
• Tectonic Plate Motion
• Tectonic Motion in North America
• Major Earthquakes and Fault Zones of California
• Explanation of San Andreas Fault in California
• Explanation of San Andreas Fault Links
• Real-Time California Earthquake Data at the SCEC (Southern California Earthquake Center)
• Formation of Erosion of a Sea Stack Over 100 Years

Paleoecology: Evidence and Arguments

• Recent Books on Subject of Paleoecology.
  
  
• Don't Forget to Visit Dr. Cowen's Chapter 5 Updates