Need help finding sources...

[BobbyJoeCool]

I need to find a few non-internet sources (good ones) on what evolution is. Shorter articles (10 pages or less) are prefered, but I was just wondering if any of you can point me in the right direction (or if you know one off the top of your head). I have many that are defending it, but not many that explain it. I don't exactly have access to a Biology Text, but I need sources and I though maybe I could find one or two that explain the evolution process and possible abiogenisis. I need this for a position paper in my comp class...

 

Thanks in advance!

[RyanJ]

I only know one but it does have links to other sites too!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolution

 

Is that of any use too you?

 

Cheers,

 

Ryan Jones

[-Demosthenes-]

Wikipedia can be useful for everyday information and reference, but not for writing papers (if that's what you're doing). If you are interested in writing a paper and don't want to use junk Internet cites (hence wanting to get non-internet sources), then I think I can help you, because there are good sources on the internet too.

 

The easiest way to get good sources on the internet would be to only use government or education sites (such as .org, .edu, or .gov sites) and not commercial sites (such as .com, and .net).

 

Altavista is a good search site to use (altavist.com) to find some of these good sites (that should be acceptable sources for a normal college paper). To filter out all of the .com's and .net's try something like *"evolution -domain:com" This search turns out some really good sites, such as: http://evolution.berkeley.edu/, http://mcb.harvard.edu/BioLinks/Evolution.html (this one took the tiniest bit of digging), and http://www.talkorigins.org/origins/faqs-evolution.html.

 

 

 

 

*-domain:com makes the search exclude any sites ending in .com (make sure you put the hyphen/minus sign before domain). The same works from .net sites as well.

[BobbyJoeCool]

Hey thanks! It hadn't occured to me to look at .edu. Because some of those aren't internet sources (because they have articles on them, and for some reason, a written article she doesn't count as an internet source, even if it's wrtitten for the internet....)

[-Demosthenes-]

Yeah, most of the crapy sources are .com's or .net's.