Supplementary Reading Assignments for Lecture

Aug 24

Evolutionary Ecology: A Historical Perspective

 

 

Orians, G.H. 1962. Natural Selection and Ecological Theory. The American Naturalist 96:257-263.[PDF]

Freeman, S. and J.C. Herron. 2004. The Evidence for Evolution. (read pp. 35-64; 3rd edition) (read pp.37-67; 4th edition).

Aug 27
Evolution, Natural Selection, Fitness and Adaptation

 

Dawkins, R. 1982.  The Extended Phenotype. W.H. Freeman (read pp.179-194).

Freeman, S. and J.C. Herron. 2004. Darwinian Natural Selection. (read pp. 69-103; 3rd edition) (read pp.73-105; 4th edition).

 

Aug 31
Adaptationists Program / Constraints on Selection

Freeman, S. and J.C. Herron. 2004. Flower color change in Fuchsia: A Constraint and The Adaptationist Program Applied to Humans. (read pp. 354-355, 521-528; 3rd edition) (read pp. 385-388, 550-555; 4th edition).

Sept 5
Units of Selection

Freeman, S. and J.C. Herron. 2004. Selection Operates on Different Levels. (read pp. 358-367; 3rd edition) (read pp. 392-395; 4th edition).

Williams, G.C. 1966. Adaptation and Natural Selection. Princeton  University Press, Princeton, NJ (read pp.92-124).

 

Sept 10
Scaling Effects

Gould, S.J. 1974. Size and shape. Natural History 83:20-26.

 

Sept 12
Measuring Selection

Freeman, S. and J.C. Herron. 2004. Measuring Heritable Variation and Measuring Differences in Survival and Reproductive Success (read pp. 303-308, 308-317; 3rd edition) (read pp. 333-346, 333-346, 4th edition).

 

 

Sept 17-26
Genetic Basis of Evolutionary Change

Freeman, S. and J.C. Herron. 2004. Mutation and Genetic Variation. (read pp.109-136, 141-190, 195-247; 3rd edition) (read pp. 141-165, 169-218, 223-275; 4th edition).

 

 

Oct 3
Reproductive Tradeoffs

Freeman, S. and J.C. Herron. 2004. How many Offspring should an Individual Produce in a Given Year? And  How big should each Offspring be? (read pp. 474-486; 3rd edition) (read pp. 502-514; 4th edition).

 

Oct. 8
Semelparity versus Iteroparity

Freeman, S. and J.C. Herron. 2004. Life Histories in a Broader Evolutionary Context. (read pp.490-491; 3rd edition) (read pp. 517-519; 4th edition).

 

 

 

Oct 10
Aging & Senescence

Freeman, S. and J.C. Herron. 2004. Aging and Other life History Characteristics. (read pp. 455-474; 3rd edition) (read pp. 483-502; 4th edition).

 

Oct 12

Phenotypic Plasticity

 

Freeman, S. and J.C. Herron. 2004. Phenotypic Plasticity. (read pp. 350-351; 3rd edition) (read pp. 380-383; 4th edition).

 

Oct 17
Evolution of Sex

 

Freeman, S. and J.C. Herron. 2004. The Adaptive Significance of Sex. (read pp. 274-285; 3rd edition) (read pp. 302-312; 4th edition).

 

 

Oct 22
Sex Ratio Variation

Freeman, S. and J.C. Herron. 2004. The Evolution of the Sex Ratio. (read pp. 434; 3rd edition) (read pp. 462; 4th edition).

Oct 24-29
Sexual Selection

Krebs, J.R. and N.B. Davies. 1993. An Introduction to Behavioural Ecology. (read Chapter 8)

 

Freeman, S. and J.C. Herron. 2004. Sexual Selection. (read pp. 373-412; 3rd edition) (read pp. 401-440; 4th edition).

Oct 31

Coevolution

Freeman, S. and J.C. Herron. 2004. When Different Species Interact Over Time, Do They Evolve Together? (read pp. 574-576; 3rd edition) (read pp. 135-136; 4th edition).

 

Nov 12
Evolution by Individuals

 

Whitham, T.G. and C.N. Slobodchikoff. 1981. Evolution by individuals, plant-herbivore interactions, and mosaics of genetic variability: the adaptive significance of somatic mutations in plants. Oecologia 49:287-292.

Nov 14
Plant Signals

Bruin, J., M.W. Sabelis, and M. Dicke. 1995. Do plants tap SOS signals from their infested neighbours? Trends in Ecology and Evolution 10:167-170.

Nov 26
Speciation

Freeman, S. and J.C. Herron. 2004. Mechanisms of Speciation. (read pp. 583-611; 3rd edition) (read pp. 605-633; 4th edition).

Nov 28

Applied Evolution

Futuyma, D.J. 1995. The uses of evolutionary biology. Science 267:41-42.

Freeman, S. and J.C. Herron. 2004. A Case for Evolutionary Thinking: Understanding HIV. (read pp. 3-30).