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I'm not sure if this resource has been posted yet, but I thought I'd
pass it along just in case. 

Nature Magazine recently published one-page, easy-to-read summaries of
15 "Evolutionary Gems" that have been published in the magazine within
the last 10 years or so (with references to the full articles). 

They can be downloaded at:
http://www.nature.com/nature/newspdf/evolutiongems.pdf.
 
The Gems are: 

*Gems from the fossil record*
1 Land-living ancestors of whales
2 From water to land
3 The origin of feathers
4 The evolutionary history of teeth
5 The origin of the vertebrate skeleton

*Gems from habitats*
6 Natural selection in speciation
7 Natural selection in lizards
8 A case of co-evolution
9 Differential dispersal in wild birds
10 Selective survival in wild guppies
11 Evolutionary history matters

*Gems from molecular processes*
12 Darwin's Galapagos finches
13 Microevolution meets macroevolution
14 Toxin resistance in snakes and clams
15 Variation versus stability

NATURE MAGAZINE'S DESCRIPTION: 
Most biologists take for granted the idea that all life evolved by
natural selection over billions of years. They get on with researching
and teaching in disciplines that rest squarely on that foundation,
secure in the knowledge that natural selection is a fact, in the same
way that the Earth orbits the Sun is a fact. Given that the concepts and
realities of Darwinian evolution are still challenged, albeit rarely by
biologists, a succinct briefing on why evolution by natural selection is
an empirically validated principle is useful for people to have to hand.
We offer here 15 examples published by Nature over the past decade or so
to illustrate the breadth, depth and power of evolutionary thinking. We
are happy to offer this resource freely and encourage its free
dissemination.

Enjoy!

Bill

Bill Watson 
Chief of Onsite Learning 
National Museum of Natural History
Smithsonian Institution
(202) 633-1127
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