Making Sense of Evolution

CONTENTS OF CURRICULUM UNIT 16.06.04

  1. Unit Guide
  1. Introduction
  2. Background and Rationale
  3. The Geologic Time Scale
  4. Fossils: Evidence of Environment and Evolution
  5. Evolution and Environment
  6. Example Organism: The Woolly Mammoth
  7. Student Goals and Activities
  8. Endnotes
  9. Bibliography
  10. Appendix A – Implementing District Standards

Understanding Earth's History and Geologic Time through Evolution

Amanda Snow

Published September 2016

Tools for this Unit:

Endnotes

  1. Don Buckley, Interactive Science (Boston, MA: Pearson, 2011), 121
  2. Jerry A. Coyne, Why Evolution Is True, 20.
  3. "CPS Stats and Facts ," CPS : At-a-glance : CPS Stats and Facts, section goes here, accessed June 27, 2016, http://cps.edu/About_CPS/At-a-glance/Pages/Stats_and_facts.aspx.
  4. J. D. Walker et al., "The Geological Society of America Geologic Time Scale," Geological Society of America Bulletin 125, no. 3-4 (2012): 261, doi:10.1130/b30712.1.
  5. Ibid.
  6. Ibid. 263
  7. Ibid.
  8. Ibid., 260
  9. Stephen K. Donovan, "Taphonomy," Geology Today 18, no. 6 (2002), doi:10.1046/j.0266-6979.2003.00373.x.
  10. "Different Types of Fossils," The Learning Zone: What Is a Fossil?, 2006, accessed July 16, 2016, http://www.oum.ox.ac.uk/thezone/fossils/intro/types.htm.
  11. Stephen K. Donovan, "Taphonomy," Geology Today 18, no. 6 (2002), doi:10.1046/j.0266-6979.2003.00373.x.
  12. "Different Types of Fossils," The Learning Zone: What Is a Fossil?, 2006, accessed July 16, 2016, http://www.oum.ox.ac.uk/thezone/fossils/intro/types.htm.
  13. Richard A. Fortey, Fossils: The Key to the past (London: Natural History Museum Publications, 2015), 23.
  14. Ibid., 46
  15. Ibid., 46-51
  16. Don Buckley, Interactive Science (Boston, MA: Pearson, 2011), 38
  17. Richard A. Fortey, Fossils: The Key to the past (London: Natural History Museum Publications, 2015), 60-61.
  18. Dipanjan Ghosh, "Index Fossils," Resonance Reson 11, no. 10 (2006): accessed June 20, 2016, doi:10.1007/bf02835676.
  19. Jerry A. Coyne, Why Evolution Is True.
  20. Ibid., 115
  21. Abhijeet S. Bardapurkar, "What Is ‘Natural’ in Natural Selection?," Resonance Reson 18, no. 5 (2013): pg. #, doi:10.1007/s12045-013-0065-8.
  22. Ibid.
  23. Ibid., 116-117
  24. R. M. Mcdowall, "What Biogeography Is: A Place for Process," Journal of Biogeography 31, no. 3 (2004): doi:10.1046/j.0305-0270.2003.01020.x.
  25. "Biogeography: Wallace and Wegener," Biogeography: Wallace and Wegener, section goes here, accessed July 17, 2016, http://evolution.berkeley.edu/evolibrary/article/history_16.
  26. Richard A. Fortey, Fossils: The Key to the past, 180-185.
  27. Ibid. 180
  28. Jennifer C. Mcelwain and Surangi W. Punyasena, "Mass Extinction Events and the Plant Fossil Record," Trends in Ecology & Evolution 22, no. 10 (2007), doi:10.1016/j.tree.2007.09.003.
  29. Delbert Wiens and Michèle R. Slaton, "The Mechanism of Background Extinction," Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 105, no. 2 (2011): 2, doi:10.1111/j.1095-8312.2011.01819.x.
  30. Ibid.
  31. A. M. Lister and A. V. Sher, "The Origin and Evolution of the Woolly Mammoth," Science 294, no. 5544 (2001): 1094, doi:10.1126/science.1056370.
  32. Jerry A. Coyne, Why Evolution Is True, 11.
  33. Richard A. Fortey, Fossils: The Key to the past (London: Natural History Museum Publications, 2015), 215-218.
  34. Michael S.y. Lee and Simon Y.w. Ho, "Molecular Clocks," Current Biology 26, no. 10 (2016): 1, doi:10.1016/j.cub.2016.03.071.
  35. P. Ukkonen et al., "Woolly Mammoth (MammuthusPrimigenius Blum.) and Its Environment in Northern Europe during the Last Glaciation," Quaternary Science Reviews 30, no. 5-6 (2011), doi:10.1016/j.quascirev.2010.12.017.
  36. David Nogués-Bravo et al., "Climate Change, Humans, and the Extinction of the Woolly Mammoth," PLoS Biology PLoSBiol 6, no. 4 (2008), doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.0060079.
  37. Barrow, L. H. “Picturing Evolution through Geologic Time.” The American Biology Teacher 78
  38. Ibid.
  39. Alycia Stigall et al., "Tried and True: Using Observations of Fossils to Reconstruct Ancient Environments," Science Scope Sci. Scope 039, no. 02 (2015), doi:10.2505/4/ss15_039_02_10.

Comments:

Add a Comment

Characters Left: 500

Unit Survey

Feedback