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Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkExploratorium: Which Embryo Is Human?
Grades: TK/K to 12Subjects: Science, Life SciencesThis resource, from the Exploratorium Web site, is a thought-provoking exhibit that compares a human embryo against a number of ...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkWhich Embryo Is Human?
Grades: 6 to 12Subjects: Science, Life SciencesThis Exploratorium resource features DNA and developing embryos. The topic is introduced by having users guess which of five emb...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkPrehistoric DNA to Help Solve Human-Evolution Mysteries?
Grades: 3 to 12Subjects: Life Sciences, American Democracy, Science, Geography, History-Social ScienceIn this National Geographic News article, read about how tiny flecks of DNA from the fossils of human ancestors and other primat...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkIt's All in the Genes
Grades: TK/K to 12Subjects: Science, History-Social Science, Life Sciences, GeographyThis National Geographic Magazine article discusses a proposed system for using DNA analysis to identify animals. The idea would...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLink"Whale Lice" Genes Offer Clues to Whale Evolution
Grades: 3 to 12Subjects: American Democracy, Science, History-Social Science, Life Sciences, GeographyIn this National Geographic News article, read about how the evolution of tiny crustaceans called whale lice can reveal useful f...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkEvolution Revolution: Two Species Become One, Study Says
Grades: 3 to 12Subjects: American Democracy, Science, History-Social Science, Life Sciences, GeographyIn this National Geographic News article, read about the discovery of an insect that shows that two species can combine to creat...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkDocumentary Redraws Humans' Family Tree
Grades: 3 to 12Subjects: American Democracy, Science, History-Social Science, Life Sciences, GeographyIn this National Geographic News article, read about a documentary that presents evidence that all humans alive today are descen...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkEvolution of Whales
Grades: 3 to 12Subjects: Science, History-Social Science, Life Sciences, GeographyIn this Feature article, from the November 2001 National Geographic Magazine Interactive Edition, author Douglas Chadwick introd...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkPopular Groups on the Tree of Life
Grades: 3 to 12Subjects: Science, Life SciencesThis page, part of the Tree of Life Web Project, features information on a variety of animal, insect, and plant groups. This res...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkExtinct Giant Deer Traced to Modern Relative by DNA
Grades: 3 to 12Subjects: American Democracy, Science, History-Social Science, Life Sciences, GeographyIn this National Geographic News article, read about DNA research that links a huge, extinct deer with its closets living relati...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkDNA Tests Show African Elephants Are Two Species
Grades: 3 to 12Subjects: American Democracy, Science, History-Social Science, Life SciencesIn this National Geographic News article, read about the discovery that African forest and savanna elephants are actually two di...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkFossils Help Determine When Humans, Apes Diverged
Grades: 3 to 12Subjects: American Democracy, Electives, Science, History-Social Science, GeographyIn this National Geographic News article, read about new research into human evolution. An international team of medical researc...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkIn Search of Human Origins: Classroom Ideas
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: Electives, Science, History-Social Science, Life SciencesThis resource for grades 9-12, from National Geographic, is a list of classroom activities focusing on human evolution. The acti...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkExtinct Dodo Related to Pigeons, DNA Shows
Grades: 3 to 12Subjects: Life Sciences, American Democracy, Science, Geography, History-Social ScienceIn this National Geographic News article, read about the evolutionary history of the dodo bird. Recent DNA analysis shows that ...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0