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The lecture is in English with Turkish subtitles.
Lecturer is Douglas J. Futuyma of the Department of Ecology and Evolution, State University of New York.
This lecture was given at the second Evolution, Science and Education Symposium at Boğaziçi University, Turkey on May 23-24, 2009. Here’s the website for the symposium (in Turkish) and an English [...]

Paleoanthroplogy = the study of the fossil and cultural remains and other evidence of humans’ extinct ancestors

It may not be immediately obvious what possible relevance ancient bones and stones have to our present occupations and problems. Almost any branch of science can immediately be seen to have a greater impact on the present world [...]

Check out the description in the sidebar of the video’s youtube page for references.
DonExodus2 also has other good videos on his youtube channel.

I’m just reading a begginers guide to studying religion through evolutionary theory.
Thought I’d share the link:
http://evolution.binghamton.edu/religion/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/BeginnersGuide.pdf
Which comes from a University’s ERS homepage:
http://evolution.binghamton.edu/religion/
Will probably do a related post later
Here’s part of the article:
On the relationship between evolutionary theory and theological explanatory frameworks
Many explanations of religion are theological; that is, they assume the [...]

simpsons creationism vs evolution
I found this at Atheist Movies. A great resource for scientific and other stuff.

Nature is one of the worlds most influential scientific journals for the publication of important new research and analysis.
Learn about Nature (Journal) here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nature_magazine
I have included Nature podcast, a weekly program on articles published in Nature, which includes interviews with the researchers, permanently in the sidebar to the right.
Nature has several podcasts for their more [...]

Similarities between creatures can be evidence for their having shared a common ancestor (which means if you go back through their parents generation by generation for millions of years you will get to parents that they both have in common as direct ancestors). Differences between organisms show the changes that have taken place over [...]

” … nonhuman primates seem to rely heavily on combinations of gestures, facial expressions, and postures … They apparently are able to lend many shades of meaning to this body language vocabulary. Often, they use sounds as a means of calling attention to their other signals.
This [...]

Bellow’s an audiobook version of Dawkin’s new book for you guys to download. You can also buy the book and read a description at my Amazon shop in the sidebar. Enjoy
http://rapidshare.com/files/280038697/Richard.Dawkins-The.Greatest.Show.on.Earth.Audiobook.part1.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/280123941/Richard.Dawkins-The.Greatest.Show.on.Earth.Audiobook.part2.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/280070913/Richard.Dawkins-The.Greatest.Show.on.Earth.Audiobook.part3.rar
After you have downloaded the three files you can extract them with a program like Extract Now which can [...]