Evolution

Becoming Human Watch the three-part series. Go
The Zoo of You In this interactive, see how closely parts of your body match those in other animals, from sharks to fruit flies. Go
Killer Instinct Why is infanticide so widespread among primates, including the great apes, and what does that say about us? Go
Early Humans in Pop Culture For 150 years, pop culture has offered distorted images of our ancestors. Go
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Aired: November 3, 2009
on PBS
Becoming Human Part 1
First Steps: Six million years ago, what set our ancestors on the path from ape to human?
Aired: April 19, 2005
on PBS
Little People of Flores
The remains of three-foot-tall humans are discovered on a remote Indonesian island.

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Fossil Evidence Examine five transitional species that fill so-called gaps in the fossil record.
Origins of Bipedalism Explore hypotheses for why we stand up, choose your favorite, then hear what paleoanthropologist Donald Johanson thinks.

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The Four-Winged Dinosaur Surprising fossils from northeastern China spur a debate over how birds evolved.

Timing Is Everything Developing embryos reveal secrets about both genetics and the odyssey of life on Earth.
Evolution Down Under How did Australia come to be marsupial heaven?

On the Origin of Species
by Charles Darwin
Island Life
by Alfred Russel Wallace
The Beak of the Finch: A Story of Evolution in Our Time
by Jonathan Weiner
The Tangled Bank: An Introduction to Evolution
by Carl Zimmer
Lucy's Legacy: The Quest for Human Origins
by Donald Johanson and Kate Wong
Your Inner Fish: A Journey Into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body
by Neil Shubin
The First Human: The Race to Discover Our Earliest Ancestors
by Ann Gibbons
Why Evolution Is True
by Jerry A. Coyne
Endless Forms Most Beautiful: The New Science of Evo Devo
by Sean B. Carroll
Mothers and Others: The Evolutionary Origins of Mutual Understanding
by Sarah Blaffer Hrdy
Ever Since Darwin: Reflections in Natural History
by Stephen Jay Gould
The Complete World of Human Evolution
by Chris Stringer and Peter Andrews