Lecture 1: Introduction & Course Overview. Required: Erwin. 2000. Macroevolution is more than repeated rounds of microevolution. Evolution & Development. 2: 78-84.

Other sources: Grantham, T. 2007. Is macroevolution more then successive rounds of microevolution? Paleontology 50: 75-85.; Bock, W. 2006. Explanations in evolutionary theory Source: Journal of Zoological Systematics and Evolutionary Research. 45: 89 -103. Levinton (1987 or 2001). Genetics paleontology and evolution Chptr. 1; Stanley. 1979. Macroevolution, pattern and process; Eldredge & Cracraft. 1980. Phylogenetic patterns and the evolutionary process; Stebbins & Ayala. 1981. Science 213: 967.

Lecture 2: Microevolution. Required: None. This lecture should be review!! If you are unfamiliar with this material, it is up to you to peruse the relevant passages in the text listed here.

Other sources: Freeman & Herron. 2007. Evolutionary Analysis. (Part II); Ayala. 1982. Population and Evolutionary Genetics. A Primer; Hartl. 2000. A Primer of Population Genetics, 3rd ed.

Lecture 3: Species definitions. Historical perspectives. Required: Hey. 2006. On the failure of modern species concepts Source: Trends in Ecology & Evolution. 21: 447-450.

Other readings: Wiens. 2004. What is speciation and How should we study it? Am. Nat. 163: 914.; Sites, J.W. and J.C. Marshall. 2004. Operational criteria for delimiting species. Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution, and Systematics. 35: 199-227. Hull. 1997. In Species: the units of biodiversity. Claridge, Dawah and Wilson (eds.). For this and the next two lectures see also various articles in a complete issue of Journal of Evolutionary Biology Volume 14, Number 6 (Nov. 2001).

Lecture 4: Species definitions (cont'd ...) & intro to speciation. Required: None.

Other readings: Turelli et al. 2001. Theory and speciation. TREE 16: 330; Otte & Endler. 1989. Speciation and its consequences.

Lecture: Models of Speciation: Geographic versus ecological. Required: Sobel et al. 2010. The biology of speciation. Evolution. 64: 295-315.

Other readings: Wilkins (2007) The dimensions, modes and definitions of species and speciation. Biology & Philosophy 22: 247-266. ; Via, S. 2001. Sympatric speciation in animals: the ugly duckling grows up. TREE 16: 381; Endler 1977. Geographic variation, speciation, and clines. Princeton Univ. Press. - a classic monograph.

Lecture 5: The genetics of speciation. Required: Jochen B. W. Wolf, Johan Lindell and Niclas Backström. 2010. Speciation genetics: current status and evolving approaches. Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B 2010 365, 1717-1733.

Other readings: Orr. 2001. The genetics of species differences. TREE 16: 343.

Lecture 6: Speciation via hybridization or polypoidization. Required: None

Other readings: Soltis & Soltis. 1999. Polyploidy: recurrent formation and genome evolution. TREE 14: 348.; Otto & Whitton. 2000. Polyploid incidence and evolution. Annual Review of Genetics. 34: 401. Feder et al. 2003. Genetics 2003. 163: 939-853.

Lecture 7: Sexual selection and sexual conflict in speciation. Required: Arnqvist et al. 2000. Sexual conflict promotes speciation in insects. PNAS 97: 10460-10464.

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Lecture 8: Inferring evolutionary history. Required: Faith & Trueman. 2001. Towards an inclusive philosophy for phylogenetic inference. Systematic Biology 50: 331.

Other readings: Futuyma (1998): pp. 87-96 (To end of Cladistics. A Hypothetical example), Kluge. 1999. The science of phylogenetic systematics: Explanation, prediction, and test. Cladistics 15: 429.

Lecture 9: Overview of phylogenetics methods. Required: Holder & Lewis (2003). Phylogeny estimation: traditional and Bayesian approaches. Nat. Reviews Genetics 4: 275-284.

Other readings. Hall, B. 2007. Phylogenetics Made Easy: A How to Manual. Sinauer. 3rd ed.

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Lecture 11: Popular science writing: Please see lecture page

Lecture 10: Character mapping & evolutionary inference. Required: None.

Other readings: See Character mapping section in on-line manual for Mesquite (Maddison & Maddison).

Lecture 12: Biogeography. Required (I realize this is a long review but what I wish for you to get out of this is really the overarching themes and definitions of biogeography): Morrone, J.J., and J.V. Crisci. 1995. Historical biogeography: Introduction to methods. Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics. 26: 373-401.

Other readings: Hubbell, S.P. 2005. The neutral theory of biodiversity and biogeography and Stephen Jay Gould. Paleobiology 31: 122-132.

Lecture 13: Adaptive radiation I. Required: none.

Other readings: Foote, M. 1997. The evolution of morphological diversity. Annu. Rev. Ecol. Syst. 28:129–52; Schluter. 2000. The ecology of adaptive radiation.

Lecture 14: Adaptive radiation II. none.

Lecture 15: Co-speciation & co-evolution. Required: Scheffer & van Nes. 2006. Self-organized similarity, the evolutionary emergence of groups of similar species. PNAS 103: 6230-6235

Other readings: Futuyma and Slatkin. 1983. Coevolution; Page. 2003. Tangled trees: phylogeny, cospeciation, and coevolution.

Lecture 16: Development & evolution. Required: Minelli. 2009. Phylo-evo-devo: combining phylogenetics with evolutionary developmental biology. BMC Biology 2009, 7:36.

Other readings: Alberch et al. 1979.Size and shape in ontogeny and phylogeny. Paleobiology. 5: 296-317. Gould. 1977. Ontogeny and phylogeny; Raff. 1996. The Shape of Life: Genes, Development, and the Evolution of Animal Form.

Lecture 17: Rates of evolution. Required: Paul, C.R.C. 2009. The fidelity of the fossil record: The improbability of preservation. Palaeontology. 52: 485–489.

Other readings: Gould. 1986. Punctuated equilibrium: empirical response. Science 232: 439; Gould and Eldredge. 1993. Punctuated equilibrium comes of age. Nature 366: 223; Lewin. 1986. Punctuated equilibrium is now old hat. Science 231: 672; Levinton. 1986. Punctuated equilibrium. Science 231: 1490; Gould. 1994. Tempo and mode in the macroevolutionary reconstruction of Darwinism.

Lecture 18: Species selection. Required (My primary desire here is for you to develop an understanding of what species selection is and how it might differ from other modes of selection - again a long article): Jablonski, D. 2008. Species selection: Theory and data. Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics 39: 501-524.

Other readings: Stanley. 1975. A theory of evolution above the species level. PNAS. 72: 646-650. See interesting debate in the literature in the pages of Nature in 1988. Maynard Smith, Stanley, Gould.Gould. 1998. Gulliver's further travels: the necessity and difficulty of a hierarchical theory of selection. Phil. Trans. Roy. Soc. Biol. 353:307.

Lecture 19: Mass extinctions. Required: Hut et al. 1987. Comet showers as a cause of mass extinctions. Nature 329: 118-126. A classic!!

Other readings: Krug et al. 2009. Signature of end-Cretaceous mass extinction in the modern biota. Science 323: 767-771.

Lecture 20: Deep time evolution. Required: Levinton. 2008. The Cambrian Explosion: How Do We Use the Evidence? Source: Bioscience. 58: 855-864.

Other readings: Gould. 1989. Wonderful life: the Burgess Shale and nature of history; McShea. 1998. Possible largest-scale trends in organismal evolution: Eight "Live Hypotheses". Ann. Rev. Ecol. Syst. 29:293.

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