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General Information http://www.galapagosislandsdiscover.com/galapagos_information.htm http://www.rit.edu/~rhrsbi/GalapagosPages/Galapagos.html

THE BOOK online: "On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection or The Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life" Charles Darwin, 1859 http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/origin.html

CHAPTER 1 - Overview of Islands - History, Geology, Oceanography

History of the Islands http://www.galapagosislandsdiscover.com/info/galapagos_history.htm

Map of the Islands http://www.galapagosislandsdiscover.com/maps.htm

Geology http://www.geo.cornell.edu/geology/GalapagosWWW/GalapagosGeology.html http://www.webpages.uidaho.edu/~dgeist/galapagos/galatlas.html http://www.rit.edu/~rhrsbi/GalapagosPages/Vulcanism.html

Climate and Oceanography http://www.geo.cornell.edu/geology/GalapagosWWW/GalapagosClimate.html

Chapter 2 - Charles Darwin: Predecessors, The Man, The Trip

Predecessors the played a major role in the development of the theory of evolution Timline of evolutionary thought - http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/history/evotmline.html

Aristotle - http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/history/aristotle.html Carolus Linneaus - http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/history/linnaeus.html Erasmus Darwin - http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/history/Edarwin.html Jean-Baptiste Lamarck - http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/history/lamarck.html Thomas Malthus - http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/history/malthus.html Georges Cuvier - http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/history/cuvier.html Alfred Wallace - http://www.wku.edu/~smithch/index1.htm

Darwin - Short Biographies http://pages.britishlibrary.net/charles.darwin3/darwin_bio.htm another (http://www.darwin-literature.com/l_biography.html) another (http://www.blupete.com/Literature/Biographies/Science/Darwin.htm)

Darwin and his visit to the Galapagos http://www.rit.edu/~rhrsbi/GalapagosPages/Darwin.html http://www.galapagosconnection.net/page_darwin.html Chapter 3 - The Theory of Evolution by Means of Natural Selection http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/faq-intro-to-biology.html http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/evolution-definition.html http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/modern-synthesis.html http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/macroevolution.html Evolutionary Theory Page: http://www.talkorigins.org/origins/faqs-evolution.html Origin of Species (The Book): http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/origin.html

Chapter 4 - The Finches, the Flora, and the Fauna

Darwin's Finches http://www.rit.edu/~rhrsbi/GalapagosPages/DarwinFinch.html http://www.darwinfoundation.org/articles/n6000129902.html

Galapagos Flora http://www.gct.org/flora.html

Galapagos Fauna (animals) http://www.salongo.jp/e/ecuador/animal.htm Sea Birds http://www.rit.edu/~rhrsbi/GalapagosPages/SeaBirds.html Land Birds http://www.rit.edu/~rhrsbi/GalapagosPages/landbirds.html Reptiles http://www.rit.edu/~rhrsbi/GalapagosPages/Reptiles.html