Reading List
This is a highly selective compilation of classic papers in evolutionary biology, along with some more recent studies. They serve as a starting point for the written assignment, and are suggested supplementary reading for graduate students.
Cultural/social context
Gould, S. J. 1997. Nonoverlapping Magisteria. Natural History 3/97 pp 16ff.
Forrest, B. 2004. Learning the Lay of the Religious and Political Land. pp 23-25. In 'Evolutionary Science and Society: Educating a New Generation'. American Institute of Biological Sciences Publications, Washington D.C.
Forrest, B. 2001. The Wedge at Work: How Intelligent Design Creationism Is Wedging Its Way into the Cultural and Academic Mainstream. chp 1 In “Intelligent Design Creationism and its Critics.” MIT Press, Cambridge. http://www.infidels.org/library/modern/barbara_forrest/wedge.html
Miller, K.R. 1994. Life's Grand Design. Technology Review 97: 24-32.
Intelligent Decision, Discover Magazine, December 2005
(The complete 139 page Dover Report is at http://www.sciohost.org/ncse/kvd/kitzmiller_decision_20051220.pdf)
Diamond, J, and EM Evans. 2007. Museums teach evolution. Evolution 61:1500-1506.
Scott, EC, & NJ Matzke. 2007. Biological design in science classrooms. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 104:8669–8676.
Natural Selection
Futuyma, D. J. 2004 The Nature of Natural Selection. pp 93-99. In 'Evolutionary Science and Society: Educating a New Generation'. American Institute of Biological Sciences Publications, Washington D.C..
Phylogenetic trees
Driscoll, CA, M Menotti-Raymond, AL Roca, K Hupe, WE Johnson, E Geffen, EH Harley, M Delibes, D Pontier, AC Kitchener, N Yamaguchi, SJ O'Brien, & DW Macdonald. 2007. The Near Eastern origin of cat domestication. Science 317:519-523.
Genetic variation
Fisher, R. A. 1930. Chapter 1: The nature of inheritance. In: The genetical theory of natural selection. pp. 1-21.
Lolle, S. J., J. L. Victor, J. M. Young, & R. E. Pruitt. 2005. Genome-wide non-mendelian inheritance of extra genomic information in Arabidopsis. Nature 434:505-509.
Weigel D., and G. Jurgens. 2005. Hotheaded healer. Nature 434:443.
Gene flow & differentiation
Bratteler, M, C Lexer, & A Widmer. 2006. Genetic architecture of traits associated with serpentine adaptation of Silene vulgaris. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 19:1149–1156.
Dolgin, ES, B Charlesworth, SE Baird, & AD Cutter. 2007.
Inbreeding and outbreeding depression in Caenorhabditis nematodes. Evolution 61:1339–1352.
Jordan, M.A. et al. Phenotypic divergence despite high levels of gene flow in Galápagos lava lizards (Microlophus albemarlensis). Molecular Ecology 14:859-867.
Carson, H.L.. 1983. Chromosomal sequences and interisland colonizations in Hawaiian Drosophila. Genetics, 10: 465-482.
Genetic Drift & selection
O'Hara, R. B. 2005. Comparing the effects of genetic drift and fluctuating selection on genotype frequency changes in the scarlet tiger moth. Proc. R. Soc. B 272:211-217
Alleaume-Benharira, M. I.R. Pen, & O. Ronce 2006. Geographical patterns of adaptation within a species' range: interactions between drift and gene flow. J. Evol. Biol. 19:203-215
Fisher, R. A. & E. B. Ford. 1950. The "Sewall Wright Effect" Heredity 4:117-119.
Wright, S. 1932. The roles of mutation, inbreeding, crossbreeding and selection in evolution. Proceedings of the VI International Congress of Genetics 1:356-366.
Origin of life
Baaske, P, FM Weinert, S Duhr, KH Lemke, MJ Russell, & D Braun. 2007. Extreme accumulation of nucleotides in simulated hydrothermal pore systems. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 104: 9346–9351.
Rates of molecular evolution - neutralism/selection
Kimura, M. 1968. Evolutionary rate at the molecular level. Nature 217:624-626.
Ayala, F. 2000. Neutralism and selectionism: the molecular clock. Gene 261:27-33
Speciation
Vrana, PB. 2007. Genomic imprinting as a mechanism of reproductive isolation in mammals. Journal of Mammalogy 88:5–23.
Rice, W. R. & E. E. Hostert. 1993. Laboratory experiments on speciation: What have we learned in 40 years? Evolution 47:1637-1653.
Adaptations
Luo, Z, P Chen, G Li, & M Chen. 2007. A new eutriconodont mammal and evolutionary development in early mammals. Nature 446:288-293.
Pfennig, DW, AM Rice, & RA Martin. 2007. Field and experimental evidence for competition’s role in phenotypic divergence. Evolution 61:257-271.
Gould, S. J. & E. S. Vrba. 1982. Exaptation - A missing term in the science of form. Paleobiology 8:4-15.
Sex & Sexual selection
Domes, K, RA Norton, M Maraun, & S Scheu. 2007. Reevolution of sexuality breaks Dollo’s law. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 104:7139–7144.
Fricke, C & G Arnqvist.. 2007. Rapid adaptation to a novel host in a seed beetle (Callosobruchus maculatus): the role of sexual selection. Evolution 440-454.
Klug, H, K Lindström, & CM St. Mary. 2006. Parents benefit from eating offspring: density-dependent egg survivorship compensates for filial cannibalism. Evolution 60:2087–2095.
Selfish genes
Dawkins, R. 1976. Chapter 6: Genesmanship. Oxford University Press. pp. 95-116
Hurst, G.D.D, & J.H. Werren. 2001. The role of selfish genetic elements in eukaryotic evolution. Nature Reviews Genetics 2:597-606.
Carroll, L. S. et al. 2004. Fitness effects of a selfish gene (the mus t complex) are revealed in an ecological context. Evolution 58:1318-1328.
Johnson, L.J. & J. F.Y. Brookfield 2002. Evolutionary dynamics of a selfishly spreading gene that stimulates sexual reproduction in a partially sexual population. J. Evol. Biol. 15:42-48.
Sibly, R.M. 1989. What evolution maximizes. Functional Ecology 3:129-135.
Social behavior
O’Neill, MJ, BR Lawton, M Mateos, DM Carone, GC Ferreri, T Hrbek, RW Meredith, DN Reznick, & RJ O’Neill. 2007. Ancient and continuing Darwinian selection on insulin-like growth factor II in placental fishes. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 104:12404–12409.
Wenseleers, T, & FLW Ratnieks. 2006. Comparative analysis of worker reproduction and policing in eusocial Hymenoptera supports relatedness theory. The American Naturalist 168:E163–E179.
Young, AJ, AA Carlson, SL Monfort, AF Russell, NC Bennett, & T Clutton-Brock. 2006. Stress and the suppression of subordinate reproduction in cooperatively breeding meerkats. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 103:12005–12010.
Ostrowski EA, Katoh M, Shaulsky G, Queller DC, Strassmann JE (2008) Kin Discrimination Increases with Genetic Distance in a Social Amoeba. PLoS Biol 6(11): e287. doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.0060287
Life history evolution
Reznick, DN, M Bryant, & D Holmes. 2006. The evolution of senescence and post-reproductive lifespan in guppies (Poecilia reticulata). Public Library of Science Biology 4:136-143.
Reznick, DN, & CK Ghalambor. 2005. Selection in nature: experimental manipulations of natural populations. Integrative and Comparative Biology 45:456–462.
Radiations & extinctions
Magri, D, GG Vendramin, B Comps, I Dupanloup, T Geburek, D Gömöry, M Latalowa, T Litt, L Paule, JM Roure, I Tantau, WO van der Knaap, RJ Petit, & J de Beaulieu. 2006. A new scenario for the Quaternary history of European beech populations: palaeobotanical evidence and genetic consequences. New Phytologist 171:199–221.
Prud’homme, B, N Gompel, & SB Carroll. 2007. Emerging principles of regulatory evolution. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 104:8605–8612.
Human evolution
Bakewell, MA, P Shi, & J Zhang. 2007. More genes underwent positive selection in
chimpanzee evolution than in human evolution. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 104:7489–7494.
Thorpe, SKS, RL Holder, & RH Crompton. 2007. Origin of human bipedalism as an adaptation for locomotion on flexible branches. Science 316:1328-1331.
Evolution & human health
Beall, CM. 2007. Two routes to functional adaptation: Tibetan and Andean high-altitude natives. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 104:8655–8660.
Gould, S.J. & Lewontin, R.C. 1979. The spandrels of San Marco and the Panglossian paradigm. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, B. 205, pp 581-598.
Punctuated equilibria
Eldredge, N. & S.J. Gould. 1972. Punctuated equilibria: an alternative to phyletic gradualism. In: Models in paleobiology. (Schopf, T.J.M. ed). Freeman, Cooper & Co, San Francisco. pp 82-115.
Gould, S.J. & N. Eldredge. 1993. Punctuated equilibrium comes of age. Nature 366:223-227.