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|Feb. 27|| Kristen || {{pdf|http://hydrodictyon.eeb.uconn.edu/people/schwenk/SimpsonMajorFeatures1953WithNoteOPT.pdf}} G. G. Simpson (excerpt from ''The Major Features of Evolution'', 1953) || | |Feb. 27|| Kristen || {{pdf|http://hydrodictyon.eeb.uconn.edu/people/schwenk/SimpsonMajorFeatures1953WithNoteOPT.pdf}} G. G. Simpson (excerpt from ''The Major Features of Evolution'', 1953) || | ||
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− | |March 6|| Eliza || E. Mayr (excerpt from Animal Species and Evolution) || | + | |March 6|| Eliza || E. Mayr (excerpt from Animal Species and Evolution) '''if short on time''', skip pp. 535-546 |
+ | :{{pdf|hydrodictyon.eeb.uconn.edu/people/schwenk//Mayr1963_GeneticRevolutions.pdf}} Excerpts from Mayr (1963) Animal Species and Evolution | ||
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Revision as of 21:27, 4 March 2017
Course Information
Instructors: Kurt Schwenk and Elizabeth Jockusch
Meeting time: Mondays 9:05-10:00
Meeting place: Bamford Room
Resources
Classic Works in Evolutionary Biology Complete List
Ned Friedman's page on early evolutionists Link
Discussion Schedule
Date | Discussion Leader(s) | Readings | Additional Resources |
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Jan 23 | Kurt & Elizabeth | Paley (1802) Lamarck (1809) | Elliot (1914) introduction to Lamarck |
Jan. 30 | Elizabeth & Kurt | Darwin & Wallace (1858); With new introduction by Michael Ghiselin | Original, published version of Darwin & Wallace (1858) |
Feb. 6 | Andrew & Annette | Population Genetic Groundwork for the Modern Synthesis
Focus of Discussion: Also: |
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Feb. 13 | Snow Day | ||
Feb. 20 | Austin | 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 |
Feb. 27 | Kristen | G. G. Simpson (excerpt from The Major Features of Evolution, 1953) | |
March 6 | Eliza | E. Mayr (excerpt from Animal Species and Evolution) if short on time, skip pp. 535-546 | |
March 13 | SPRING BREAK | ||
March 20 | Botanical synthesizers: G. L. Stebbins (Variation and Evolution in Plants) and E. Anderson (Introgressive Hybridization) | ||
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April 24 | Kate | Evolution at two levels in humans and chimpanzees (http://www.jstor.org/stable/1739875) |