Essential readings in evolutionary biology

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Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press (2014)
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Traces scholarly thought from the nineteenth-century birth of evolutionary biology to the mapping of the human genome through forty-eight essays, arranged in chronological order, each preceded by a one-page essay that explains the significance of the chosen work.

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QH361.E87 2014

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A critique of the species concept in biology.T. Dobzhansky
A molecular approach to the study of genic heterozygosity in natural populations. 2, Amount of variation and degree of heterozygosity in natural populations of Drosophila pseudoobscura.R. C. Lewontin & J. L. Hubby
A new factor in evolution.J. M. Baldwin
An equilibrium theory of insular zoogeography.R. H. MacArthur & E. O. Wilson
An experimental study of interaction between genetic drift and natural selection.T. Dobzhansky & O. Pavlovsky
Artificial transmutation of the gene.H. J. Muller
Biological classification : toward a synthesis of opposing methodologies. E. Mayr
Butterflies and plants : a study in coevolution.P. R. Ehrlich & P. H. Raven
Construction of phylogenetic trees.W. M. Fitch & E. Margoliash
Ecology and the origin of species.D. Schluter
Evolution and tinkering.F. Jacob
Evolution at two levels in humans and chimpanzees.M. -C. King & A. C. Wilson
Evolution experiments with microorganisms : the dynamics and genetic bases of adaptation.S. F. Elena & R. E. Lenski
Experimental phylogenetics : generation of a known phylogeny.D. M. Hillis, J. J. Bull, M. E. White, M. R. Badgett & I. J. Molineux
Gaia, nature worship and biocentric fallacies.G. C. Williams
Gene regulation for higher cells : a theory.R. J. Britten & E. H. Davidson
Genetic control of biochemical reactions in Neurospora.G. W. Beadle & E. L. Tatum
Genetics and the making of Homo sapiens.S. B. Carroll
Homeotic genes and the evolution of arthropods and chordates.S. B. Carroll
Hybridization as an evolutionary stimulus. E. Anderson & G. L. Stebbins
Intraspecific phylogeography : the mitochondrial DNA bridge between population genetics and systematics.J. C. Avise, J. Arnold, R. Martin Ball, E. Bermingham, T. Lamb, J. E. Neigel, C. A. Reeb & N. C. Saunders
Is a new evolutionary synthesis necessary?G. L. Stebbins & F. J. Ayala
Mendelian proportions in a mixed population.G. H. Hardy
Microbial minimalism : genome reduction in bacteria pathogens.N. Moran
Mitochondrial DNA clones and matriarchal phylogeny within and among geographic populations of the pocket gopher, Geomys pinetis.J. C. Avise, C. Giblin-Davidson, J. Laerm, J. C. Patton & R. A. Lansman
Molecular structure of nucleic acids : a structure for deoxyribose nucleic acid.J. D. Watson & F. H. C. Crick
Nothing in biology makes sense except in the light of evolution.T. Dobzhansky
On the origin of species by means of natural selection (excerpt).C. Darwin
On the virtues and pitfalls of the molecular evolutionary clock.F. J. Ayala
Parent-offspring conflict.R. L. Trivers
Phylogenetic structure of the prokaryotic domain : the primary kingdoms.C. R. Woese & G. E. Fox
Protein polymorphism as a phase of molecular evolution.M. Kimura & T. Ohta
Punctuated equilibria : an alternative to phyletic gradualism.N. Eldredge & S. J. Gould
Sex limited inheritance in Drosophila.T. H. Morgan
Sexual selection, social competition, and speciation.M. J. West-Eberhard
The chimeric eukaryote : origin of the nucleus from the karyomastigont in amitochondriate protists.L. Margulis, M. F. Dolan & R. Guerrero
The descent of man and selection in relation to sex (excerpt).C. Darwin
The evolution of sex and recombination.B. Charlesworth
The evolutionary fate and consequences of duplicate genes.M. Lynch & J. S. Conery
The genetical evolution of social behavior. 1.W. D. Hamilton
The genetical theory of natural selection : a review.S. Wright
The incidence of alkaptonuria : a study in chemical individuality.A. E. Garrod
The logic of animal conflict.J. Maynard Smith & G. R. Price
The significance of responses of the genome to challenge.B. McClintock
The spandrels of San Marco and the Panglossian paradigm : a critique of the adaptationist programme.S. J. Gould & R. C. Lewontin
The species concept.G. G. Simpson
Transposable elements as sources of variation in animals and plants.M. G. Kidwell & D. Lisch
Unpredictable evolution in a 30-year study of Darwin's finches.P. R. Grant & B. R. Grant

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