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
    

The Ice Age

General Paleoclimate Links

• Links to Earth-Science Resources (Last Updated 1997)
• Environmental Links
• The World Data Center System
• USGS Global Change Research Program
• Links to Websites on Global Change
• Canada's Site on Global Climate Change [Not responding 5/00]
• Brief Summary of Greenhouse Effect
• Enhanced Greenhouse Effect Facts
• Australian Greenhouse Office
• Quicktime Movies on Global Warming
• Climate Records from Australia
• Palynology: Study of Microscopic, Decay-Resistant Organism Remains
• Current Palynological Investigation at the University of Arizona
• Links to Quaternary & Environmental Sciences

Paleoclimatology

• NOAA's Paleoclimatology Program
• The Coriolis Force Explained: Which Way Does the Toilet Water Rotate?

Ice Ages and Climatic Change

• Introduction to the Ice Ages
• Evidence for a Massive Precambrian Ice Age (700 Ma)
• North America during the Last 150,000 Years
• Ice Age Paleoecology
• Vegetational Change in Eastern North America over Last 18,000 Years
• Vegetation of Western North America During Last Ice Age at 18,000, 9,000, 8,000, or 5,000 Years Before Present or Current Patterns.
• Albido Effect: Earth Energy Balance Model

The Pleistocene Ice Age

• Overview of the Pleistocene Epoch
• Cool Maps of the Pleistocene (18,000 Years Ago) and the Modern World
• Great Book: After the Ice Age : The Return of Life to Glaciated North America by E.C. Pielou
• The Page Museum at the La Brea Tarpits, Los Angeles
• Pleistocene Mammals at the Russian Paleontological Institution
• Douglas Henderson's Illustration of an Imperial Mammoth

The World Today

• Overview of the Holocene (Last 11,000 Years)
• Climate Change During the Last 3,000 Years