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Annotated Bibliography
Nature
www.nature.com
One of the premier scientific journals. Always has good articles on the biological
and evolutionary sciences, particularly in genetics and paleontology.
Theology and Science
www.tandf.co.uk/journals (go to ‘‘Alphabetical Listing’’ and enter journal
name)
Useful articles on the interaction and connection between religion and
science; particularly good for articles on Intelligent Design.
Articles
Briggs, Robert, and Thomas J. King. ‘‘Transplantation of Living Nuclei from
Blastula Cells into Enucleated Frogs’ Eggs.’’ Proceedings of the National
Academy of Sciences of the United States of America vol. 38, no. 5 (15
May 1952): 455–463. Briggs and King announced that they had developed
a technique for transplanting the nucleus of a mature cell to an
egg cell. A version of the technique was used to clone animals forty
years later. Uses technical language.
Brown, P., et al. ‘‘A New Small-bodied Hominin from the Late Pleistocene of
Flores, Indonesia.’’ Nature vol. 431 (28 October 2004): 1055–1061.
Researchers from the University of New England in New South Wales,
Australia, and the Indonesian Centre for Archaeology in Jakarta,
Indonesia, announced that they had found the skeletal remains of a
new species of hominid Homo floresiensis or Flores Man. The researchers
suggest the new species is related to modern humans even though
it is half the size of one ancestor, Homo erectus.
Browne, Janet. ‘‘Darwin in Caricature: A Study of the Popularisation and
Dissemination of Evolution.’’ Proceedings of the American Philosophical
Society vol. 145, no. 4 (December 2001): 496–509. Excellent article
on the impact and effect of cartoons about Darwin and The Origin of
Species. Browne argues that these cartoons expressed society’s fears
about the implications of the theory of evolution as well as providing
a succinct summary of Darwin’s major ideas. The cartoons were one
reason why the theory of evolution spread so rapidly.
International Human Genome Sequencing Consortium. ‘‘Initial Sequencing
and Analysis of the Human Genome.’’ Nature vol. 409 (15 February
2001): 860–921. The Human Genome Project, led by Eric S. Lander
of the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research, published its findings
on the human genome. The two-color pullouts analyze each of
the twenty-two human chromosomes, including details such as the
gene sequence and the site of each gene.