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Evolution:

http://phylogeny.arizona.edu/tree/phylogeny.html

http://treebase.bio.buffalo.edu/treebase/

European Bioinformatics Institute: http://www.ebi.ac.uk/

National Institutes of Health genetic sequence database (GenBank):
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Genbank/GenbankOverview.html

Fossils: http://ibs.uel.ac.uk/ibs/palaeo/benton/