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Welcome to Evolution 101!
by the Understanding Evolution team

What is evolution and how does it work? Evolution 101 provides the nuts-and-bolts on the patterns and mechanisms of evolution. You can explore the following sections:

An introduction to evolution Evolution briefly defined and explained The history of life: looking at the patterns How does evolution lead to the tree of life? Mechanisms: the processes of evolution How does evolution work? Microevolution How does evolution work on a small scale? Speciation What are species anyway, and how do new ones evolve? Macroevolution How does evolution work on a grand scale? The big issues What are some of the big questions that evolutionary biologists are trying to answer? See the full table of contents here.