With many thanks from Mr.Bowditch for posting this to his website.

charles-darwin-the-origin-of-speciesWith Charles Darwin’s 200th birthday just past and the 150th anniversary of the publication of On the Origin of Species coming up, this is a big year for Darwin fans. The magazine Nature is celebrating as hard as anyone, and one of their contributions is a pamphlet titled 15 Evolutionary Gems. They are encouraging everybody to distribute it and I am only too happy to comply, so you can see a copy here. Feel free to distribute it as widely as possible. The list of its contents appears below.

  • Gems from the fossil record
    1. Land-living ancestors of whales
    2. From water to land
    3. The origin of feathers
    4. The evolutionary history of teeth
    5. The origin of the vertebrate skeleton
  • Gems from habitats
    1. Natural selection in speciation
    2. Natural selection in lizards
    3. A case of co-evolution
    4. Differential dispersal in wild birds
    5. Selective survival in wild guppies
    6. Evolutionary history matters
  • Gems from molecular processes
    1. Darwin’s Galapagos finches
    2. Microevolution meets macroevolution
    3. Toxin resistance in snakes and clams
    4. Variation versus stability

Check out Richard Dawkins book on basic evolution here.