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Revision as of 21:11, 24 March 2014
Course Information
Instructors: Kurt Schwenk and Elizabeth Jockusch
Meeting time: Tuesdays, 4-5 pm
Meeting place: Bamford Room
Resources
Classic Works in Evolutionary Biology List
Ned Friedman's page on early Evolutionists link
course pdf upload link
Class email list
Discussion Schedule
Date | Discussion Leader(s) | Readings | Additional Resources |
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Jan 21 | SNOW DAY |
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Jan. 28 | Kurt and Elizabeth | Excerpts from William Paley's "Natural Theology" Excerpts from William Whewell's 1845 "Indications of the Creator" |
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Feb. 4 | Bill | Lamarck's Physiological Zoology (1809) Excerpts from Owen on Homology and Types |
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Feb. 11 | Veronica | Darwin's and Wallace's 1858 Linnean Society Texts |
Visualization: The Preservation of Favored Traces -- a graphic representation of the changes to *On the Origin of Species* through its six editions. Owen's (anonymous) review of the Origin link Wallace-Darwin similarities: more than a coincidence? |
Feb. 18 | SNOW DAY |
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Feb. 25 | Cera | Heredity and Variation
Also worth a look, to see how rapidly genetics progressed |
Classic Literature in Genetics link Morgan, T.H. (1916) A Critique of the Theory of Evolution—Morgan reviews evolution and theories of heredity to that time: Morgan (1916) link |
March 4 | Brigette | Population Genetic Groundwork for the Modern Synthesis
Focus of Discussion Also have a look at the beginning and end of these (but skip the math in between) |
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March 11 | Suman | Excerpt from Dobzhansky (1937) Genetics and the Origin of Species
Also have a look at Dobzhansky's work on isolating mechanisms in Drosophila |
Bateson (1909) includes statement of Dobzhansky-Muller incompatibility model of speciation
H. J. Muller (1942) on the genetics of isolating mechanisms |
March 18 | SPRING BREAK | ||
March 25 | Velotta, Michael | Excerpt from George Gaylord Simpson's (1953) Major Features of Evolution |
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April 1 | Katie, Sara | Excerpt from Mayr (1963) Animal Species and Evolution | |
April 8 | Ellen, Bill | Evo-Devo: outside the synthesis (selections from Waddington, Goldschmidt, and/or Schmalhausen) | |
April 15 | Johana, Manette | Gould and Lewontin, Spandrels | |
April 22 | Jimmy, Jessie | Tentative: Van Valen, Red Queen | |
April 29 | Nora, Tim | Tentative: Felsenstein, Phylogeny and the Comparative Method |