User:Mlauinge22/Evolution of Cetaceans

TOPIC STATEMENT: The history of the discoveries related to the evolution of cetaceans is an important source of information that aids in the better understanding of the history of evolution. The discoveries within the history of the evolution of cetaceans have often made impacts on how evolution is viewed by the public and by scientists. The popular representation of the evolution of cetaceans in media and in museum exhibits is evidence of the importance of the evolution of cetaceans in constructing the public’s view on evolution.

OUTLINE OF EXPECTED WORK:

Add to each individual cetacean or pre-cetacean species denoted on Wikipedia who discovered the fossils of these species of whales, how the species was put in the timeline of cetacean evolution, and if the discovery of said species had any impact on how evolution was viewed by the public and/or scientists.

For example: For the species Indohyus, which was one of the oldest relatives to the cetacea group, the first fossils of the Indohyus were unearthed by Indian geologist A. Ranga Rao. He discovered a few teeth and a jawbone amongst rocks that he had collected. After his death, his widow Leelavathi Rao donated the rocks to professor Hans Theweissan. His technician by accident broke open a couple of the donated rocks and discovered additional Indohyus fossils.

Add a section in the article about popular representations of the evolution of cetaceans in media. Perhaps referencing books such as “Trying Leviathan”, as well as many exhibits in many noteworthy museums across the world and how these exhibits impacted public thinking about evolution.

For example, using the pushback from public on the new exhibition in Smithsonian Natural History Museum when creationists did not want the new exhibit on the Deep Sea to reference evolution. Similar pushback occurred for Human Evolution exhibit directly next to this one in the museum.

ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY:

1.          Darwin on Trial

2.          Evolution of cetaceans

3.          Johnson, Phillip E., and Michael J. Behe. Darwin on Trial. InterVarsity Press Books, 2010.

4.          https://evolution-outreach.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1007/s12052-009-0135-2

5.          https://evolution.berkeley.edu/evolibrary/article/evograms_03

6.          https://www-sciencedirect-com.stanford.idm.oclc.org/science/article/pii/B9780123735539000535

7.          Burnett, D. Graham. Trying Leviathan: the Nineteenth-Century New York Court Case That Put the Whale on Trial and Challenged the Order of Nature. Princeton University Press, 2010.

8.          https://press.princeton.edu/books/paperback/9780691146157/trying-leviathan

9.          https://www-degruyter-com.stanford.idm.oclc.org/view/title/506924

10.       https://timetoeatthedogs.com/2008/09/01/book-review-trying-leviathan/

11.       https://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/03/books/review/Wilson-t.html

12.       https://www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/2010/08/whale-evolution/

13.       https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/evolution/library/03/4/l_034_05.html

14.       https://baleinesendirect.org/en/discover/life-of-whales/morphology/les-ancetres-des-baleines/

15.       https://www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/when-whales-walked-on-four-legs.html

16.       https://www.the-scientist.com/news-opinion/found--missing-link-in-whale-evolutionary-history-65155

17.       https://www.amnh.org/exhibitions/whales-giants-of-the-deep/whale-evolution

18.       https://naturalhistory.si.edu/education/teaching-resources/paleontology/fossil-whales-and-whale-evolution

19.       https://www.burkemuseum.org/news/fossil-whale-display-burke-museum-new-species

20.       Indohyus

21.       Pakicetidae

22.       Ambulocetidae

23.       Remingtonocetidae

24.       Protocetidae

25.       Basilosauridae

26.       Dorudontinae

27.       Baleen whale

28.       List of extinct cetaceans

29.       Portal:Cetaceans