California Academy of Sciences
The California Academy of Sciences is a world-class scientific and cultural institution based in San Francisco. The Academy recently opened a new facility in Golden Gate Park, a 400,000 square foot structure that houses an aquarium, a planetarium a natural history museum and a 4-story rainforest all under one roof.
The new facility is also home to the Academy’s staff of world-class scientists, an education department that provides a wide range of student and teacher services, and an extensive science library with over 20 million specimens and artifacts.
55 Music Concourse Dr.San Francisco, CA 94118
(415) 379-8000
http://www.calacademy.org
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One Heck of a Birthday
A diverse celebration of Charles Darwin and evolution with lectures, performances, and educational programs from the world's foremost scientists, writers, thinkers, and artists.
Recent News
National News
The verdict from Texas scientists is nearly unanimous: 98 percent favor the unadulterated teaching of evolution in public school classrooms.
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Mad rantings about politics, evolution, and microbiology.
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Fundamentalists are to blame — scientific as well as religious.
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Evolution and genetics are intertwined such that it makes little sense to study evolution without studying genetics.
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New research suggests that genetic evolution is not necessarily reflected in an animal's physical appearance.
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Changes in the same species of fish living in the same lake could have serious implications for evolutionary thought.
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Lawsuits challenging the Understanding Evolution website on constitutional grounds was dismissed for lack of standing.
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Evolution could already be at an end, leaving the human race more uniform than ever, argues Steve Jones
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