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Human Biocultural Evolution: Emergence of the Biocultural Animal
Blog Roll and Web Links
Reading anthro blogs is a great way to keep up with the latest developments and discoveries in the field, to get a sense of the most important debates and controversies and to find out what anthropologists think about world events. There are literally hundreds of blogs maintained by professional anthropologists from all the subfields (a quite comprehensive list can be found at http://anthropologyreport.com/anthropology-blogs-2014/).
- The Evolution Institute (https://evolution-institute.org/).
The goal of this site is stated as, “We bring evolutionary experts together in order to facilitate respectful and constructive dialogue, resulting in a new agenda for basic scientific research, policy formulation, and policy implementation.” It has numerous videos, book reviews, and articles on evolution.
- Aeon Human Evolution blog (https://aeon.co/science/human-evolution).
This blog, hosted by Aeon (“a digital magazine of ideas and culture”) has numerous reports, commentaries, and essays focused on evolution.
- Agustín Fuentes on the Huffington Post (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/author/agustin-fuentes).
Co-author of this textbook, Agustín Fuentes, has a commentary series on the Huffington Post blog, which is periodically updated. See in particular this one: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/agustin-fuentes/dna-is-not-a-blueprint-ho_b_1578336.html.
- PBS’s “Frequently Asked Questions about Evolution” (http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/evolution/library/faq/cat01.html).
On this site, you will find a number of clarifying statements about what evolution is and how it works, with links to interactive graphics and multimedia resources.
Other Web Resources
The Oxford Bibliographies site includes an entry on evolutionary theory, gene flow, genetics, and Gregor Mendel