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| Introduction | |
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| From Darwin to the modern synthesis | |
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| Section introduction | |
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| Extract from an unpublished work on species, (1858) | |
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| Abstract of a letter from C. Darwin, Esq., to Prof. Asa Gray, Boston, USA (1858) | |
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| Weismann and modern biology, (1987) | |
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| The nature of inheritance (1930) | |
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| The roles of mutation, inbreeding, crossbreeding, and selection in evolution (1932) | |
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| Disease and evolution (1949) | |
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| Natural selection and random drift in populations | |
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| Section introduction | |
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| A resume of investigations on the evolution of melanism in the Lepidoptera (1958) | |
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| Melanic morph frequency in the peppered moth in the Manchester area (1999) | |
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| Birth weight and gestation time in relation to maternal age, parity, and infant survival (1951) | |
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| Natural selection associated with birth weight: towards the end of the stabilizing component (1992) | |
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| Oscillating selection on Darwin's finches (1987) | |
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| The paradox of variation (1974) | |
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| Recent development of the neutral theory viewed from the Wrightian tradition of theoretical population genetics (1990) | |
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| Adaptation | |
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| Section introduction | |
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| The nature of adaptation (1930) | |
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| Adaptation and natural selection (1966) | |
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| Adaptation versus selection in progress (1986) | |
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| An operational, nonhistorical definition of adaptation (1991) | |
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| The genetics of adaptation: a reassessment (1992) | |
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| The perfection of animals (1964) | |
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| The spandrels of San Marco and the Panglossian paradigm: a critique of the adaptationist programme (1979) | |
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| The selfish gene (1976) | |
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| Speciation and biodiversity | |
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| Section introduction | |
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| Typological versus population thinking (1958) | |
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| Species concepts and their application (1963) | |
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| The sterility of hybrids (1859) | |
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| Reproductive isolation as a product of genetic divergence and natural selection (1970) | |
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| Laboratory experiments on speciation: what have we learned in 40 years? (1993) | |
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| The evolutionary genetics of speciation (2000) | |
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| Ecological basis of postmating isolation (2000) | |
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| Hybrid speciation (1981) | |
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| Macroevolution | |
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| Section introduction | |
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| Speciation in the fossil record (1995) | |
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| Homology: an unsolved problem (1971) | |
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| The ey gene (1996) | |
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| Molecules and morphology: where's the homology? (1995) | |
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| The fundamental law of organic evolution (1905) | |
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| Three poems (1951) | |
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| Evolutionary genomics | |
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| Section introduction | |
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| Lateral gene transfer and the nature of bacterial innovation (2000) | |
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| The origins of genomic duplications in Arabidopsis (2000) | |
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| Initial sequencing and analysis of the human genome (2001) | |
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| Genetics and the making of Homo sapiens (2003) | |
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| Co-option of eye structures and genes (1996) | |
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| Planetary biology--paleontological, geological, and molecular histories of life (2002) | |
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| The history of life | |
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| Section introduction | |
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| From chemistry to heredity (1999) | |
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| Disparate rates, differing fates: tempo and mode of evolution changed from the Precambrian to the Phanerozoic (1994) | |
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| Evolutionary explosions and the phylogenetic fuse (1998) | |
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| Towards a new synthesis: major evolutionary trends in the angiosperm fossil record (2000) | |
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| Case studies | |
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| Section introduction | |
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| An unsolved problem of biology (1951) | |
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| The origin of the genetic code (1968) | |
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| The maintenance of sex (1971) | |
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| A caricature of seed dispersal by animal guts (1983) | |
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| A pessimistic estimate of the time required for an eye to evolve (1994) | |
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| Evolutionary novelty: the example of lactose synthetase (1997) | |
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| The evolution of mutation rates: separating causes from consequences (2000) | |
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| Human evolution | |
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| Section introduction | |
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| Immunological time scale for hominid evolution (1967) | |
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| Evolution at two levels in humans and chimpanzees (1975) | |
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| Divergence between samples of chimpanzee and human DNA sequences is 5%, counting indels (2002) | |
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| Our load of mutations (1950) | |
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| On the non-existence of human races (1962) | |
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| The scars of human evolution (1951) | |
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| The big bang (1994) | |
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| Evolution and human affairs | |
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| Section introduction | |
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| Evolution's struggle for existence in America's public schools (2001) | |
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| Nothing in biology makes sense except in the light of evolution (1973) | |
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| The argument from design (1779) | |
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| On the molecular theory of evolution (1974) | |
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| Evolution and ethics (1893) | |
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| Humans as the world's greatest evolutionary force (2001) | |
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| Select bibliography | |
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| Biographical notes | |
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| Acknowledgements | |
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| Index | |