Evolution for you, for everyone, and for the spiders

I have a few items for you from the Evolution Front.

First, you can have a free copy of an excerpt form the book Spider Silk: Evolution and 400 Million Years of Spinning, Waiting, Snagging, and Mating by Leslie Brunetta and Catherine L. Craig: Click here for the PDF file.

That was complements of the NCSE. Speaking of the NCSE, you can also have the latest copy of the Reports of the National Center for Science Education in its new on-line format:

CLICK HERE

And when you are done reading that, you can watch this:

"What Americans Think of Evolution"

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