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Zoology, 5/e

Stephen A. Miller, College of the Ozarks
John B. Harley, Eastern Kentucky University

Evolution: A Historical Perspective

Suggested Readings

Chapter 4 Selected Readings
BOOKS

Bowler, P. 1984. Evolution: The History of an Idea. Berkeley, Calif.: University of California Press.

Darwin, C. 1894. On the Origin of Species. Reprint. 1975. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Dodson. E.O. and Dodson, P. 1985. Evolution: Process and Product. Belmont, Calif.: Wadsworth.

Endler. J.A. 1986. Natural Selection in the Wild. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.

Futuyma, D.J. 1997. Evolutionary Biology. 3rd ed. Sunderland: Sinauer Associates.

Godfrey, L.R. 1985. What Darwin Began. Boston: Allyn and Bacon.

Grant, P.R. 1986. Ecology and Evolution of Darwin's Finches. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.

Menard, H.W. 1986. The Ocean of Truth: A Personal History of Global Tectonics. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.

Ridley, M. 1996. Evolution. 2nd ed. Cambridge, Mass.: Blackwell Science.

Smith, J.M. ed. 1982. Evolution Now: A Century after Darwin. New York: W.H. Freeman.

Stebbins, G.L. 1982. Darwin to DNA, Molecules to Humanity. New York: W.H. Freeman.

Volpe, E.P. 1985. Understanding Evolution. 5th ed. Dubuque, Iowa: Wm. C. Brown Publishers.

ARTICLES

Allegre, C.J. and Schneider, S.H. 1994. The evolution of the earth. Scientific American, October.

Alvarez, W. and Asaro, F. 1990. What caused the mass extinction? An extraterrestrial impact. Scientific American, October.

Bonner, J.T. 1998. The origins of multicellularity. Integrative Biology, l(1): 27-36.

Briggs, D.E.G. 1991 Extraordinary fossils. American Scientist 79(2): 130-41.

Ciochon, R.L. and Larick, R.L. 1996. The African emergence and early Asian dispersals of the genus Homo. American Scientist 84(6): 538-51.

Courtillot, V.E. 1990. What caused the mass extinction? A volcanic eruption. Scientific American, October.

Dalziel, I.W.D. 1995. Earth before Pangea. Scientific American, January.

Dawkins, R. 1995. God's utility function. Scientific American, November.

DeDuve, C. 1995. The beginnings of life on earth. American Scientist 83(5): 428-37.

DeDuve, C. 1996. The birth of complex cells. Scientific American, April.

Droser, M.L., Fortey, R., and Li, X. 1996. The Ordovician radiation. American Scientist 84(2):122-31.

Erwin, D.E. 1996. The mother of mass extinctions. Scientific American, July.

Finchel, T., and Finlay, B.J. 1994. The evolution of life without oxygen. American Scientist 82(1): 22-29.

Freedman, W.L. 1992. The expansion rate and size of the universe. Scientific American, November.

Gould, S.J. 1994. The evolution of life on the earth. Scientific American, October.

Grant, P.R. 1991. Natural selection and Darwin's finches. Scientific American, October.

Herbert, S. 1986. Darwin as a geologist. Scientific American, May.

Hoffman, P.F. and Schrag, D.P. 2000. Snowball earth. Scientific American, January.

Hogan, C.J. 1996. Primordial deuterium and the big bang. Scientific American, December.

Kirshner, R.P. 1994. The earth's elements. Scientific American, October.

Linde, A. 1994. The self-reproducing inflationary universe. Scientific American, November.

Mesterson-Gibbons, M. and Adams, E.S. 1998. Animal contests as evolutionary games. American Scientist, 86(4): 334-341.

Milner, R. 1995. Charles Darwin: The last portrait. Scientific American, November.

Moxon, E.R. 1999. DNA microsatellites: Agents of evolution? Scientific American, January.

Peebles, J.E., Schramm, D.N., Turner, E.L., and Kron, R.G. 1994. The evolution of the universe. Scientific American, October.

Rebek, J. 1994. Synthetic self-replicating molecules. Scientific American, July.

Ross, P.E. 1992. Eloquent remains. Scientific American, May.

Ruthen, R. 1993. Adapting to complexity. Scientific American, January.

Sheldon, P. 1988. Making the most of evolution diaries. New Scientist 117: 52-54.

Szathmary, E. 1997. Origins of life: The first two billion years. Nature, 387 (6634): 662.

Tattersall, I. 2000. Once we were not alone. Scientific American, January.

Taylor, S.R. and McLennan, S.M. 1996. The evolution of the continental crust. Scientific American, January.

Valentine, E. 1997. The origin of animal body plans. American Scientist, 85(2): 126-137.

Weinberg, S. 1994. Life in the universe. Scientific American, October.

Wise, D.U. 1998. Creationism's geologic time scale. American Scientist, 86(2): 160-173.

Wong, K. 2000. Who were the Neanderthals? Scientific American, April.

York, D. 1993. The earliest history of the earth. Scientific American, January.

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