Notes

• The comparative anatomy textbook with some history of Jean-Baptiste Lamark (1744 – 1829)
  
  
  
  • Kardong, K. V. (2015). Vertebrates: Comparative Anatomy, Function, Evolution (7th ed.). New York, NY: McGraw-Hill Education.
  
  
  
  


• Paper on neo-Lamarckism
  
  
  
  • Danchin, É., Pocheville, A., & Huneman, P. (2019). Early in life effects and heredity: Reconciling neo-Darwinism with neo-Lamarckism under the banner of the inclusive evolutionary synthesis. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 374(1770), 8–10. https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2018.0113
  
  
  
  


• Website for the 2016 conference at the Royal Society in London where it was debated whether the theory of evolution needed revising
  
  
  
  • Two papers on the Extended Evolutionary Synthesis published in association with this conference
    
    
    
    • Müller, G. B. (2017). Why an extended evolutionary synthesis is necessary. Interface Focus, 7(5). https://doi.org/10.1098/rsfs.2017.0015
    
    
    • Futuyma, D. J. (2017). Evolutionary biology today and the call for an extended synthesis. Interface Focus, 7(5), 20160145. https://doi.org/10.1098/rsfs.2016.0145
    
    
    
    
  
  
  
  


• Another paper about the extended evolutionary synthesis mentioned by David.




• N, L. K., Tobias, U., W, F. M., Kim, S., B, M. G., Armin, M., … John, O.-S. (2015). The extended evolutionary synthesis: its structure, assumptions and predictions. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 282(1813), 20151019. https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2015.1019




• A link to the only diagram in Charles Darwin’s The Origin of Species published in 1859


• Paper that gives an estimate on the total number of species on Earth
  
  
  
  • Mora, C., Tittensor, D. P., Adl, S., Simpson, A. G. B., & Worm, B. (2011). How many species are there on earth and in the ocean? PLoS Biology, 9(8), 1–8. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.1001127
  
  
  
  


• A paper on discussing multicellularity evolving many times
  
  
  
  • Knoll, A. H. (2011). The Multiple Origins of Complex Multicellularity. Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences, 39(1), 217–239. https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev.earth.031208.100209
  
  
  
  


• The book on rapid evolution that David and Aaron couldn’t remember the title of
  
  
  
  • Losos, J. B. (2017). Improbable Destinies: Fate, Chance, and the Future of Evolution. New York: Riverhead Books.
  
  
  
  


• Wikipedia article on punctuated equilibrium.


• The book by James Shapiro that describes “natural genetic engineering.”
  
  
  
  • Shapiro, J. A. (2011). Evolution: A View from the 21st Century. Upper Saddle River, NJ: FT Press Science.
  
  
  
  


• Examples of radiation
  
  
  
  • Cichlid fish
  
  
  • Paper on rapid evolution in guppies
    
    
    
    • Gordon, S. P., Reznick, D., Arendt, J. D., Roughton, A., Ontiveros Hernandez, M. N., Bentzen, P., & López-Sepulcre, A. (2015). Selection analysis on the rapid evolution of a secondary sexual trait. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 282(1813), 20151244. https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2015.1244
    
    
    
    
  
  
  
  


• A video of Stephen Meyer discussing intelligent design and the “God-of-the-Gaps” fallacy

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