Need help understanding evolutionary biology and zoology

[Pericles]

I need links to help me understand evolutionary biology and zoology. I'm going to start a university course in biology (I'm yet to decide what I wan't to specialise in) and I have no prior knowledge on these topics, apart from the fact that I am deeply interested in them. I took high school biology for granted and now 4 years after graduating I'm starting back at square one. All I need is basic info for an idiot: links, books, academic papers etc. Nothing too complicated just info to get me started then I will branch out into the difficult stuff.

 

Any help, comments or support will be greatly appreciated. Thanks.

[Mokele]

In what sense? I mean, very broadly, zoology studies animals, and animals evolve. Any study of biology involves evolution.

 

If you're after organism-level animal biology in an evolutionary context, try Pough's Vertebrate Life. You can get the older editions for cheap, and they're very good (editions are just a way for textbook companies to scam you out of money).

[Pericles]

Thanks Mokele.

 

I was looking to either study primatology or entomology. Do you know of any good books or links on these?

 

And I guess anything on evolution for the layman.

[Mokele]

Sorry, not much clue on either.

[liarliarpof]

Check out the Wiki piece on, 'Molecular Phylogeny'. Though more 'top-down', you may find it enlightening.