Readings (required unless otherwise noted)
| Week |
Date to read by |
Reading |
| 2 |
Mon, Oct 2
(1st day of Sun Lakes trip) |
Longino, 1993. Scientific Naming: the art and science of taxonomy. National Geographic Research & Exploration
9(1):80-85. |
| 3 |
Mon, Oct 9 |
Required: Mauron, A. 2001. ESSAYS ON SCIENCE AND SOCIETY: Is the Genome the Secular Equivalent of the Soul? Science 291:831-832.
Optional: Mauron, A. 2003. Renovating the House of Being. Genomes, Souls, and Selves. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences 1001:240-252. AND
Optional: Dennett, D. C. 2003. The Self as a Responding - and Responsible - Artifact. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences 1001:39-50.
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| 4 |
Mon, Oct 16 |
Required: USA Today article: Frog eggs
hatch faster in presence of predators
Optional: Warkentin, 1995. Adaptive plasticity in hatching age: A response to
predation risk trade-offs. PNAS 92: 3507-3510. |
| 6 |
Mon, Oct 30 |
Bradshaw & Holzapfel, 2006. Evolutionary response to rapid climate
change. Science 312: 1477-1478. (Original research article.)
And: Reviving the Quagga, New York Times, 1/1/2006.
Also read chap 6 in Wilson. |
| 7 |
Mon, Nov 6 |
Genetic nature of eastern wolves: past, present and future (Kyle et al 2006)
Interspecific gene flow in sympatric oaks (Whittemore & Schaal 1991)
Selection on gamete recognition proteins depends on sex, density, and genotype frequency (Levitan &
Ferrell 2006)
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| 8 |
Mon, Nov 13 |
Baum et al. 2005. Perspectives: The tree-thinking challenge. Science 310: 979-980.
And read the following 4 Wikipedia entries, focusing on the first parts of each. This is complicated material, and you are likely to need to read
these before lecture, and again after, perhaps several times, before the concepts stick:
Phylogenetic Tree
Phylogenetics
Cladistics
Synapomorphy
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| 9 |
Mon, Nov 27
(5 papers) |
Sankar, P., and M. K. Cho. 2002. GENETICS: Enhanced: Toward a New Vocabulary of Human Genetic Variation. Science 298:1337-1338.
Mallet, J. 2005. Hybridization as an invasion of the genome. Trends in Ecology & Evolution 20:229-237.
Mallet, J. 1995. A species definition for the modern synthesis. TREE 10:294-299.
O'Hara, R. J. 1993. Systematic generalization, historical fate, and the species problem. Systematic Biology 42:231-246.
Posey, D. A. 1983. Folk Apiculture of the Kayapo Indians of Brazil. Biotropica 15:154-158.
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