The papers and books listed on this page have been mentioned in lecture and the information is provided here so that you can look up figures shown in lecture and read about the studies in depth. You are, however, not expected to read these papers! You are expected to understand the aspects of these studies presented in lecture.

Cameron 1987. The upside-down cladogram: problems in manuscript affiliation. Chapter 12, pp. 227-242, in Hoenigswald, H. M., and L. F. Wiener (eds.), Biological metaphor and cladistic classification: an interdisciplinary approach. University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia.

Barrett et al. 2008. Natural selection on a major armor gene in threespine stickleback. Science 322:255-257.

Baum & Smith 2013. Tree thinking: an introduction to phylogenetic biology. Roberts and Company Publishers, Greenwood Village, Colorado. (ISBN-13: 978-1936221165, ISBN-10: 1936221160)

Bell et al. 2004. Twelve years of contemporary armor evolution in a threespine stickleback population. Evolution 58:814–824.

Blakeslee 1914 Corn and men. J. Heredity 5:511-518.

Boag and Grant. 1981. Intense natural selection in a population of Darwin’s Finches (Geospizinae) in the Galápagos. Science 214:82-85.

Boag 1983. The heritability of external morphology in Darwin’s Ground Finches (Geospiza) on Isla Daphne Major, Galápagos. Evolution 37:877-894.

Cody and Overton 1996. Short-term evolution of reduced dispersal in island plant populations. Journal of Ecology 84:53-61.

Cook 2003 The rise and fall of the carbonaria form of the peppered moth Quarterly Review of Biology 78:399-417.

Darwin 1859. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection John Murray, London.

Darwin 1889. Journal of researches in the the natural history and geology of the countries visited during the voyage of the H.M.S. Beagle around the world. Ward, Lock and Co., London. (published posthumously, actually written by Darwin in 1845)

Falcón et al. 2010. Dating the cyanobacterial ancestor of the chloroplast. ISME Journal 4:777-783.

Fantinutto et al. 2005. Flight control system design and optimisation with a genetic algorithm. Aerospace Science and Technology 9:73-80.

Farris 1974. Formal definitions of paraphyly and polyphyly. Systematic Zoology 23:548-554.

Fernandes et al. 2020. Mechanically robust lattices inspired by deep-sea glass sponges. Nature Materials 20:237–241.

Futuyma and Kirkpatrick. 2017. Evolution 4th ed. Sinauer Associates (Oxford University Press). 594 pp.

Gogarten et al. 1989. Evolution of the vacuolar H+-ATPase: implications for the origin of eukaryotes. PNAS 86:6661-6665.

Grant and Grant. 1995. Predicting microevolutionary responses to directional selection on heritable variation. Evolution 49:241-251.

Grant and Grant 2006. Evolution of character displacement in Darwin’s Finches Science 313:224-226.

Haeckel 1879. The Evolution of Man Watts & Co., London.

Kang et al. 2011. Shared ancestry between a newfound mole-borne hantavirus and hantaviruses harbored by cricetid rodents. J. Virol. 85:7496-7503.

Lewis 1998. A genetic algorithm for maximum likelihood phylogeny inference using nucleotide sequence data. Molecular Biology and Evolution 15:277-283.

Lin and Liu 2007. Genetic algorithms for portfolio selection problems with minimum transaction lots. European Journal of Operational Research 185:393-404.

Lürling 2003. Phenotypic plasticity in the green algae Desmodesmus and Scenedesmus with special reference to the induction of defensive morphology Annals of Limnology - International Journal of Limnology 39:85-101.

Moalem et al. 2002. Epidemic pathogenic selection: an explanation for hereditary hemochromatosis? Medical Hypotheses 59:325-329.

Morris et al. 1998. Automated docking using a Lamarckian genetic algorithm and an empirical binding free energy function. Journal of Computational Chemistry 19:1639-1662.

Piel et al. 2010. Global distribution of the sickle cell gene and geographical confirmation of the malaria hypothesis Nature Communications 1:104.

Rivera et al. 2020. Toughening mechanisms of the elytra of the diabolical ironclad beetle. Nature 586, 543–548.

Sagan 1967. On the origin of mitosing cells. J. Theoretical Biol. 14:225-274.

Savolainen et al. 2013. Ecological genomics of local adaptation. Nature Reviews Genetics 14:807-820.

Simpson et al. 2011. Polyphenism in insects. Current Biology 21:R738-R749.

Smith 1993. Disruptive selection and the genetic basis of bill size polymorphism in the African finch Pyrenestes. Nature 363:618–620.

van’t Hof et al. 2016. The industrial melanism mutation in British peppered moths is a transposable element. Nature 534:102–105.

Weis and Abrahamson. 1986. Evolution of host-plant manipulation by gall makers: ecological and genetic factors in the Solidago-Eurosta system The American Naturalist 127:681-695.

Yates et al. 2002. The ecology and evolutionary history of an emergent disease: hantavirus pulmonary syndrome. BioScience 52:989-998.

Zwickl 2006. Genetic algorithm approaches for the phylogenetic analysis of large biological sequence datasets under the maximum likelihood criterion. Ph.D. dissertation, The University of Texas at Austin.