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Children, 7/e
John W. Santrock, University of Texas, Dallas

Biological Beginnings

Web Links (Referenced in Text Margins)

Evolution
(http://www.anselm.edu/homepage/jpitocch/resevol.html)

Extensive links to a wide range of evolution topics, including links to molecular evolution journals, books, academic departments and laboratories, and organization.
Evolution and Behavior
(http://www.hbes.com/)

Extensive links to information about a wide range of topics on evolution and behavior.
Evolutionary Psychology
(http://cogweb.ucla.edu/EP/)

Leda Cosmides and John Tooby examine in-depth the idea of evolutionary psychology, including evolutionary psychology's past and present, adaptive problems, nature and nurture, and many other evolutionary psychology topics.
Handbook of Evolutionary Psychology
(http://cogweb.ucla.edu/Abstracts/Crawford_Krebs_98.html)

Provides abstracts of chapters written by a number of leading evolutionary psychology experts. Topics include mate choice, evolutionary psychology and culture, moral behavior, family violence, evolutionary cognitive psychology, and many other topics.
Evolutionary Psychology Resources
(http://cogweb.ucla.edu/)

This web site of the Center for Evolutionary Psychology at the University of California- Santa Barbara. Links to information about a wide range of evolutionary psychology topics.
Landmarks in the History of Genetics
(http://members.tripod.com/~dorakmt/genetics/notes01.html)

Heredity Resources
(http://www.consbio.umn.edu/ConsGen/)

Genetic Journals and News
(http://www.pedgen.med.uni-muenchen.de/medgen/journals.html)

Behavior Genetics
(http://www.faseb.org/genetics/ashg/policy/pol-28.htm)

This article, written by a number of leading behavior geneticists, describes what the field of behavior genetics is like, traditional methods, and innovative methods that recently have been developed.
Human Genome Project
(http://www.ornl.gov./TechResources/Human_Genome/home.html)

Explore many aspects of this important and fascinating project, which has to goal of mapping all the genes in the human DNA.
Genetic Disorders
(http://dir.yahoo.com/Health/Diseases_and_Conditions/Genetic_Disorders/)

Links to information about a wide range of genetic disorders.
Prenatal Testing
(http://www.w-cpc.org/pregnancy/testing.html)

Explore many fascinating aspects of prenatal testing, including a movie showing ultrasound of an unborn child.
Genetic Counseling
(http://www.pitt.edu/~edugene/resource/)

Includes educating and teaching resources, books, genetics and health news, journals, prenatal counseling, pediatric counseling, and other aspects of genetic counseling.
Two Views of The Bell Curve
(http://www.apa.org/journals/bell.html)

Read detailed reviews of Hernstein and Murray's controversial book, The Bell Curve.
Sternberg's Critique of The Bell Curve
(http://online.moraine.cc.il.us/WebSupported/PSY101/Thinking_Intelligence/thinking%20and%2... )

Genes and Parenting
(http://www.edweek.com/ew/vol-18/04parent.h18)

This article evaluates the controversial book, The Nurture Assumption, written by Judith Harris that questions parents' influence and promotes the importance of heredity in children's development.