Explaining life through evolution

PART 1: A Personal Prologue

Called to action

Pulled into the fight

On trust

Facts and truth

PART 2: The evolution revolution

Introduction to evolution

The great chain of being or ladder of life

Theories of evolution

From so simple a beginning

The selection of natural selection

Mendel and the maintenance of variation

Mutants and mutations

Speciation: the formation of new species

On fossils and the book of life

PART 3: who you calling "primitive"?

Our crappy-crappie bodies

The tree of life

The origin of life

The history of life

PART 4: Why understanding evolution matters

Evolution in the antrhopocene

Natural history

Our genealogy and ancestry

Sex/Gender/Sexuality

Combatting post-truth with trust

Conversation with a creationnist