Chapter 18 - Related Web Sites

• Travel through the galleries and exhibits of the University of California's Museum of Paleontology.

• The Slow Death of Spontaneous Generation (1668-1859) describes the lengthy history of this belief and the major players who sought to refute this idea. Louis Pasteur finally laid this idea to rest, opening the door for ideas on evolution.

• Enter Evolution: Theory and History is a well-written, thorough treatment of the founders of natural science, the great naturalists of the eighteenth century. The focus is on scientists who had ideas on evolution, and those who were proponents of natural selection.