This is the home page of the UConn EEB department’s Seminar in Comparative Biology (EEB 6485): Classic Works in Evolutionary Biology

Spring 2022

This semester we are reading classic works in evolutionary biology and systematics. We are meeting this semester on Mondays at 12:20-1:10.

If you need a permission number for this course, or to be added to the mailing list, or to obtain the password for accessing papers linked to this page, contact Kurt Schwenk.

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Jan. 24

• Lamarck_1809_Ch7.pdf
• PaleyNaturalTheology1802EXCERPT.pdf

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Jan. 31

Darwin’s and Wallace’s 1858 Linnean Society Texts:

• original (OCR’d image)
• original (text)

Optional:

• Reprinted text with commentary by Michael Ghiselin

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Feb. 7

• Wright’s 1932 adaptive landscapes paper

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Feb. 14

• Dobzhansky, ch. 8, isolating mechanisms, excerpt
• Dobzhansky, Hybrid sterility, read ‘The problem’ and ‘Discussion’
• Dobzhansky, Species differences, read ‘Introduction’ and ‘Summary’

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Feb. 21

• Simpson (1953) Major Features of Evolution, excerpt

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Feb. 28

• Mayr (1963) Animal Species And Evolution, excerpt

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• Hennig (1965)

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• Kimura (1968)

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• Van Valen (1973)

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• Van Valen (1973)

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• Gould & Lewontin (1979)

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• Felsenstein (1985)

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• Grant & Grant (2002)