Understanding Evolution is a non-commercial, education website, teaching the science and history of evolutionary biology. This site is here to help you understand what evolution is, how it works, how it factors into your life, how research in evolutionary biology is performed, and how ideas in this area have changed over time.

Podcasts and Video Archive of the Difficult Dialogue series. The Fall 2006 Difficult Dialogues series aimed to engender an informative and civil dialogue about some difficult and volatile issues in American society. The series presented diverse views on the proper roles of reason and faith in the human enterprise, from knowledge discovery to our sense of place and purpose in the universe. Speakers took part in a colloquium on the morning following their lectures. Difficult Dialogues is sponsored by The Commons, a joint venture of the Hall Center for the Humanities and the Biodiversity Institute.

Learning about and teaching about evolution. This site was created by the University of California Museum of Paleontology with support provided by the National Science Foundation (grant no. 0096613) and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (grant no. 51003439).