Notes

• Textbook definitions of evolution are from:
  
  
  
  • Brooker, R., Widmaier, E., Graham, L., & Stiling, P. (2008). Biology (3^rd). Boston: McGraw-Hill Higher Education.
  
  
  • Urry, L., Cain, M., Wasserman, S., Minorsky, P., Reece, J., & Campbell, N. (2017). Campbell biology(11^th). New York, NY: Pearson Education.
  
  
  
  


• Futuyma definitions of evolution from:
  
  
  
  • Futuyma, DJ. (1986). Evolutionary Biology (2^nd). Sunderland, MA: Sinauer Associates
  
  
  
  


• The conference on the extended evolutionary synthesis was titled “New trends in evolutionary biology: biological, philosophical and social science perspectives” and was held in November of 2016 at the Royal Society in London
  
  
  
  • The paper referenced by Dr. Corbit suggesting that macroevolution isn’t well defined was from a paper from this meeting.
    
    
    
    • Müller, G. B. (2017). Why an extended evolutionary synthesis is necessary. Interface focus, 7(5), 20170015.
    
    
    
    
  
  
  • To see Sir David Attenborough reading the end of the sixth edition of Charles Darwin’s book The Origin of Species go here.
  
  
  • The book by Stephen J. Gould that Dr. Corbit references is:
    
    
    
    • Gould, S.J., 2002. The structure of evolutionary theory. Harvard University Press.
    
    
    
    
  
  
  • How many modern biologists feel about evolutionary theory is summed up by the title of the following paper by Theodosius Dabzhansky:
    
    
    
    • Dobzhansky, T. (2013). Nothing in biology makes sense except in the light of evolution. The american biology teacher, 75(2), 87-91.
    
    
    
    
  
  
  • Resources on proposed examples of speciation
    
    
    
    • https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/science-sushi/evolution-watching-speciation-occur-observations/
    
    
    • http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/speciation.html
    
    
    • A Review of hybrid speciation:
      Abbott, R.J., Albach, D., Ansell, S.A., Arntzen, J.W., Baird, S.J., Bierne, N., Boughman, J.W., Brelsford, A., Buerkle, C.A., Buggs, R.J., Butlin, R.K., Dieckmann, U., Eroukhmanoff, F., Grill, A., Cahan, S.H., Hermansen, J.S., Hewitt, G., Hudson, A.G., Jiggins, C.D., Jones, J., Keller, B., Marczewski, T., Mallet, J., Martínez-Rodríguez, P., Moest, M., Mullen, S.A., Nichols, R., Nolte, A.W., Parisod, C., Pfennig, K.S., Rice, A.M., Ritchie, M.G., Seifert, B., Smadja, C.M., Stelkens, R.B., Szymura, J.M., Väinölä, R., Wolf, J.B., & Zinner, D. (2013). Hybridization and speciation. Journal of evolutionary biology, 26 2, 229-46.
    
    
    • A paper on the apple and hawthorn maggot:
      Tait, C., Batra, S., Ramaswamy, S. S., Feder, J. L., & Olsson, S. B. (2016). Sensory specificity and speciation: a potential neuronal pathway for host fruit odour discrimination in Rhagoletis pomonella. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 283(1845), 20162101.
    
    
    
    
  
  
  • Resources on rapid changes in morphology
    
    
    
    • A book examining rapid evolutionary change is:
      Losos, J. B. (2017). Improbable destinies: Fate, chance, and the future of evolution. New York, NY: Riverhead Books.
    
    
    
    
  
  
  • A paper on the stickleback:
    Barrett, R. D., Rogers, S. M., & Schluter, D. (2008). Natural selection on a major armor gene in threespine stickleback. Science, 322(5899), 255-257.
  
  
  
  


• Resources on adaptive radiation
  
  
  
  • Darwin’s Finches:
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darwin%27s_finches
  
  
  • Cichlid fish in African Great Lakes:
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adaptive_radiation#Cichlids_of_the_African_Great_Lakes
  
  
  • Hawaiian spiders:
    Gillespie, R. (2004). Community assembly through adaptive radiation in Hawaiian spiders. Science, 303(5656), 356-359.
  
  
  
  

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• Audio production: Aaron Corbit


• Music: “Perspectives” by Kevin Macleod


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