Textbooks by Ken Miller & Joe Levine
Click on the cover of the Dragonfly Book for Internet-based teaching resources, chapter updates, and a host of useful information for students and teachers.
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High School TextbooksJoe Levine and I have written three different high school textbooks. Our publisher, Prentice Hall, has produced web sites for each of them, with separate entry points for students and teachers. Joe and I produced our own modest web sites for the Elephant book and the Lion book, which are still available and you may find useful. However, we're focusing most of our current efforts on the site for our latest book, the "Dragonfly." If you're using or considering the Dragonfly book, be sure to look at the "Authors' Site" for that book first. Why? Because it contains all of the reasources at our publisher's site and much more!
"Ten Answers for your Students" - A response from the National Center for Science Education to Jonathan Wells' "Ten Questions" challenging the teaching of evolution.
Haeckel's Embryos - Critics of evolution charge that textbooks like ours contain "fraudulent" drawings of embryos presented as evidence for evolution. Do they? This page explains what Joe and I did when we learned of a mistake in one of the illustrations in the Lionbook and Elephant Book.
The Peppered Moth - Critics of evolution also charge that the story of the peppered moth, presented in books like ours as evidence for natural selection, is a fraud. But is it really? Check out this page for the real story.
Do We Ever Make Mistakes in our Books?
Are you kidding? We're human beings, and in writing almost 3,000 pages of text and assembling more than 6,000 diagrams and illustrations, naturally we and our editors have made a few mistakes (actually, very few). However, more than once we've also felt the need to rewrite something for clarification or to avoid misunderstanding. Here's a complete index to each of our books with lists of corrections and clarifications to date:
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