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ActionBioscience.org is a non-commercial, educational web site created to promote bioscience literacy by examining issues that will: motivate the public to play an active role in bioscience education; show how developments in bioscience research can affect everyone; promote an understanding of biogeography and the biodiversity of life; engage the public to reflect on the relationship between human activity and the natural course of evolution; promote global ecological awareness; advance formal and informal bioscience education; encourage students to pursue studies in the biosciences

Agner Fog, Ph.D. Cultural Selection Book published at Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1999

Biological evolution: never has a phenomenon so important so lent itself to such clear, understandable, elegant explanations. But just as evolution itself produces a seemingly infinite variety of life forms, so the human understanding of evolution has produced countless educational and entertaining kinds of illustrations by which to explain it. In the video above, astronomer-astrophysicist-cosmologist Carl Sagan, no stranger to demystifying the once seemingly unfathomable phenomena of our universe, shows how evolution actually works with eight minutes of crisp animation that take us from molecules in the primordial soup, to bacteria, to plants and polyps, to lampreys, to turtles, to dinosaurs and birds, to wombats, to baboons and apes, to us. Then he goes back and does the whole four billion-year evolutionary journey again in forty seconds...