In 2008, it came to my attention that despite evolution's importance and controversial nature, there was no free source that offered high-quality, easy-to-understand evolution education. You either had to pay for a textbook (which was probably hard to understand anyway) or you had to go to some website that doesn't do a particularly good job, or assumes that you know a lot about science. I wanted to do something about this problem. Work began on EvoEdu in August. In February of 2009, I published EvoEdu.

My name is Tristan Zimmerman, and all my life I've been fascinated by science. It's interesting, it's cool, and it's fun. My passion for the subject has often given me that extra edge I need to explain something to friends and family, and to get across exactly how cool that something is. Ever since I, as a young lad, first picked up a book about dinosaurs, I've been surrounded by the idea of evolution. At first, I merely understood it as living things changing over time, but as I grew older, I started to understand the idea better. It was just intuitive for me – it simply made sense. You can imagine my surprise when I befriended someone whom I later discovered to be a hardcore challenger of evolution. It never occurred to me that a smart, rational person could not have an intuitive understanding of the subject like I did, and I found that it seemed mostly due to misunderstandings. I discovered that several other friends of mine accepted evolution, but really didn't know the first thing about it. When I discovered that there was no online resource to send people like my friends to, I decided to create one. Folks deserve a high-quality evolution education resource, and that's what I'm trying to give them.

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