Resource library:

The following resources from our library are particularly good for younger audiences.

Comic strip: Survival of the sneakiest This comic follows the efforts of a male cricket as he tries to attract a mate, and in the process, debunks common myths about what it means to be evolutionarily "fit."

Interactive investigation: The arthropod story This interactive investigation delves into the amazing world of the arthropods and examines their success and their evolutionary constraints.

Mantis shrimp shoulder their evolutionary baggage and bluff Like all organisms, mantis shrimp carry baggage from their evolutionary history. Find out how this baggage has coaxed them into a deadly bluffing game.

Similarities and differences: Understanding homology and analogy This interactive investigation explains what homologies and analogies are, how to recognize them, and how they evolve.

The Making of the Fittest: Natural Selection and Adaption This 10-minute film describes the research of Dr. Michael Nachman and colleagues, whose work in the field and in the lab has documented and quantified physical and genetic evolutionary changes in rock pocket mouse populations.

The Making of the Fittest: Natural Selection in Humans This 14-minute film describes the connection between the infectious parasitic disease malaria and the genetic disease sickle cell anemia - one of the best-understood examples of natural selection in humans.

The Making of the Fittest: The Birth and Death of Genes This 13-minute film describes how scientists have pieced together the evolutionary history of the Antarctic icefish by studying its genome – an excellent case study for genetic evolution as both the gain and loss of genes have led to key adaptations.