Textbooks (clear but exhaustive treatments)
General references on evolution
Specific references arranged in order of lecture topics

Textbooks (for reference) . . .

Futuyma, D. 2008. Evolution. Sinauer. [updated shorter version of a standard textbook]

Ridley, M. 2003 (third edition, first edition 1993). Evolution. Blackwell Scientific. [readable and thorough with some different emphases than Futuyma ... do not confuse with Ridley, 2004, Evolution, Oxford University Press, which is a collection of papers by various authors to illustrate the history of important evolutionary problems ... also good but less relevant to this course!]

If you are interested ...

Futuyma, D. 1995. Science on Trial: the Case for Evolution. Sinauer.

Scott, E. C., and N. Eldridge. 2005. Evolution vs. Creationism: an Introduction. University of California Press.

National Academy of Science and National Academy of Medicine. 2008. Science, Evolution, and Creationism. NAS Press.

General references ...

*Dawkins, R. 1976 (and later editions). The Selfish Gene. Oxford Univ. Press. [modern classic that contributed to a reorientation in thinking about mechanisms of evolution -- like Origin of Species both in clarity and controversy!] [Dawkins, in his endowed chair at Oxford University, is not the most approachable guy -- but his controversial books are exceptionally clearly written.]

*Maynard Smith, J. 1988. Did Darwin Get It Right? Chapman and Hall. [essays -- actually mostly book reviews -- on the relevance of evolution to broader issues] [Maynard Smith has provided the theoretical justification for much of Dawkins' approach -- and has written some of the clearest explanations of evolutionary biology for wide audiences.   Each book he wrote was more important than the previous one -- until he died in 2004 after many decades of talking (and drinking beer) with countless visitors at the University of Sussex.]

*Gould, S. J. 1977. Ever since Darwin. Norton. [or any of Gould's other books of essays on evolution] [Gould had an ax to grind about some issues in evolution, but his many books based on his columns in Natural History and The New York Review of Books made him the most widely known contemporary American evolutionary biologist.   After a long career at Harvard, he died of cancer in 2002.]

Maynard Smith, J. 1998 (first edition 1988). Evolutionary Genetics. Oxford Univ. Press. [mathematical basis for evolution explained clearly!]

Coyne, J. A., and H. A. Orr. 2004. Speciation. Sinauer. [careful evaluation of current theory in relation to the evidence about every aspect of speciation]

*Price, T. 2008. Speciation in Birds. Roberts. [detailed review of speciation in a group of vertebrates that has been the subject of a lot of research ... many neat examples of geographic variation, reproductive isolation, hybridization, incipient speciation, and recent genetic analyses ... all explained clearly]

References for specific issues . . .

Weibel, A. C., and W. W. Moore. 2002. A test of a mitochondrial gene-based phylogeny of woodpeckers (genus Picoides) using an independent nuclear gene, beta-fibrinogen intron 7. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 22: 247-257. [Here is a phylogeny of some woodpeckers based on DNA sequences -- look for the Hairy, Downy, Red-cockaded, and the two northern "relatives" of the Hairy -- villosus, pubescens, borealis, tridactylus, and arcticus, respectively.]

*Hairston, N. G. 1987. Community Ecology and Salamander Guilds. Cambridge Univ. Press (especially chapter 3). ZOOLOGY LIBRARY RESERVE.

Highton, R., G. C. Maha, and L. R. Maxson. 1989. Biochemical evolution in the slimy salamanders of the Plethodon glutinosus complex in the eastern United States. Illinois Biological Monographs 57: 1-153. [16 species recognized!]

Highton, R. 1995. Speciation in eastern North American salamanders of the genus Plethodon. Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics 26: 579-600.

*Petranka, J. W. 1998. Salamanders of the United States and Canada. Smithsonian Institution Press. [great book about salamanders -- read the accounts of Plethodon glutinosus, P. jordani, P. oconaluftee, P. aureolus] ZOOLOGY LIBRARY RESERVE.

Bruce, R. C., R. G. Jaeger, and L. D. Houck (eds.). 2000. The Biology of Plethodontid Salamanders. Kluwer/Plenum. On reserve in Zoology Library (QL668.C274 B56 2000) [see especially the chapters by Mead and Tilley on variation in Desmognathus ochrophaeus and by Tilley on Desmognathus imitator]

Donovan, M. F., R. D. Semlitsch, and E. J. Routman. 2000. Biogeography of the southeastern United States: a comparison of salamander phylogeographic studies. Evolution 54: 1449-1456.

Zink, R. M., and M. C. McKitrick. 1995. The debate over species concepts and its implications for ornithology. Auk 112: 701-719. [strong proponents of the phylogenetic species concept -- see what you think! -- use SORA to find this article on the internet -- elibrary.unm.edu/sora]

Slatkin, M. 1987. Gene flow and the geographic structure of natural populations. Science 236: 787-792.

Zink, R. M. 1986. Patterns and evolutionary significance of geographic variation in the Schistacea Group of the fox sparrow (Passerella iliaca). Ornithological Monographs 40: 1-119.

Greenwood, P. J. 1980. Mating systems, philopatry and dispersal in birds and mammals. Animal Behaviour 28:1140-1162. [a classic paper that first compared natal dispersal in birds and mammals]

Alberts, S. C., and J. Altmann. 1995. Balancing costs and opportunities: dispersal in male baboons. American Naturalist 145: 279-306. [an excellent study of dispersal in a non-human primate]

Greenwood, P. J., P. H. Harvey, and C. M. Perrins. 1979. The role of dispersal in the Great Tit (Parus major): the causes, consequences and heritability of natal dispersal. Journal of Animal Ecology 48:123-142. [the study that started it all]

Newton, I., and M. Marquiss. 1983. Dispersal of sparrow-hawks between birthplace and breeding place. Journal of Animal Ecology 52:463-477. [another classic]

Part, T. 1994. Male philopatry confers a mating advantage in the migratory collared flycatcher, Ficedula albicollis. Animal Behaviour 48:401-409. [some evidence for why natal dispersal matters]

Johnson, M. L., and M. S. Gaines. 1990. Evolution of dispersal: theoretical models and empirical tests using birds and mammals. Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics 21:449-480. [a review of evidence about what influences the evolution of natal dispersal]

Roberts, D. F. 1985. Genetic structure in Orkney. Man 20: 131-141. [one of many papers about human populations -- this one about populations in an archipelago -- compare with the Galapagos!]

*Grant, P. R., and R. Grant. 2008. How and why species multiply: the radiation of Darwin's finches. Princeton Univ. Press.

*Grant, P. 1986. Ecology and Evolution of Darwin's Finches. Princeton Univ. Press (especially chapters 10, 11 or 13). ZOOLOGY LIBRARY RESERVE.

*Weiner, J. 1995. The Beak of the Finch. [account of research on Darwin's finches by a prize-winning science reporter]

Freeland, J. R., and P. T. Boag. 1999. Phylogenetics of Darwin's finches: paraphyly in the tree-finches, and two divergent lineages in the warbler finch. Auk 116: 577-588.

Burns, K. J., S. J. Hackett, and N. K. Klein. 2002. Phylogenetic relationships and morphological diversity in Darwin's finches and their relatives. Evolution 56: 1240-1252. [molecular evidence for a Caribbean origin of Galapagos finches]

Otte, D., and J. A. Endler (editors). 1988. Speciation and its Consequences (especially chapters 1, 7, 25 on general issues and chapter 18 on sympatric speciation in Darwin's finches). [Botany Library, 302 Coker]

*Futuyma, D. J., and G. C. Mayer. 1980. Non-allopatric speciation in animals. Systematic Zoology 29: 254-271. [clear statement of the issues and evidence]

Servedio, M. R., and M. Kirkpatrick. 1997. The effects of gene flow on reinforcement. Evolution 51: 1764-1772. [evolution of reproductive isolation -- a mathematical analysis by one of UNC's own]

Slatkin, M. 1996. In defense of founder-flush theories of speciation. American Naturalist 147: 493-505. [do founder effects result in speciation?]

Tilley, S. G., P. A. Verrell and S. J. Arnold. 1990. Correspondence between sexual isolation and allozyme differentiation: a test in the salamander Desmognathus ochrophaeus. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (U. S. A.) 87: 2715-1719.

Mengel, R. M. 1964. The probable history of species formation in some northern wood warblers (Parulidae). Living Bird 3: 9-43.

Klicka, J., and R. M. Zink. 1997. The importance of recent ice ages in speciation: a failed paradigm. Science 277: 1666-1669. [Mengel's hypothesis has some problems!]

Haffer, J. 1969. Speciation in Amazonian forest birds. Science 165: 131-137.

Meyer, A., T. D. Kochner, B. Basasibwaki, and A. Wilson. 1990. Monophyletic origin of Lake Victoria cichlid fishes suggested by mitochondrial DNA sequences. Nature 347: 550-553. [over 250 species from one common ancestor in less than a half million years!]

*Goldschmidt, T. 1997. Darwin's dreampond: drama in Lake Victoria. M.I.T. Press. [prize-winning account of East African cichlid fishes]

*Barlow, G. W. 2000. The cichlid fishes: nature's grand experiment in evolution. Perseus Publishing (especially chapter 12 about the African lakes). [another great book written by an expert!]

Keenleyside, M. H. A. (editor). 1991. Cichlid fishes, behaviour , ecology and evolution. Chapman and Hall. [especially several chapters on East African cichlids]

Verheyen, E., L. Ruber, J. Snoeks, and A. Meyer. 1996. Mitochondrial phylogeography of rock-dwelling fishes reveals evolutionary influence of historical lake level fluctuations of Lake Tanganyika, Africa. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Socie ty of London B 351: 797-805. [geographical isolation within one lake basin!]

Barton, N. H., and G. M. Hewitt. 1989. Adaptation, speciation and hybrid zones. Nature 341: 497-503.

Rising, J. D. 1983. Great Plains hybrid zones. Current Ornithology 1: 131-157.

Moore, W. S., and D. B. Buchanan. 1985. Stability of the Northern Flicker hybrid zone in historical times: implications for adaptive speciation theory. Evolution 39: 135-151.

Moore, W. S., and W. D. Koenig. 1986. Comparative reproductive success of yellow-shafted, red-shafted, and hybrid flickers across a hybrid zone. Auk 103: 42-51.

Grudizen, T. A., W. S. Moore, J. R. Cook and D. Tagle. 1987. Genic population structure and gene flow in the Northern Flicker (Colaptes auratus) hybrid zone. Auk 104: 654-664.

Cooke, F., and F. G. Cooch. 1968. The genetics of polymorphism in the goose Anser caerulescens [snow goose]. Evolution 22: 289-300. [once thought to be two species, genetic morphs now shown to differ by one allele!]

Bateson, P. P. G. (editor). 1983. Mate Choice. Cambridge Univ. Press (chapter 12 on Snow Geese). ZOOLOGY LIBRARY RESERVE.

Hairston, N. G., Sr., R. H. Wiley, C. K. Smith and K. A. Kneidel. 1992. The dynamics of two hybrid zones in Appalachian salamanders of the genus Plethodon. Evolution 46: 930-938. [amazing contrast between two superficially similar hybrid zones ... as documented by previous generations of students in Vertebrate Field Zoology!]]

Kozak, K. H., and R. R. Montanucci. 2001. Genetic variation across a contact zone between montane and lowland forms of the two-lined salamander (Eurycea bislineata) species complex: a test of species limits. Copeia 2001: 25-34.

Endler, J. A. 1973. Gene flow and population differentiation. Science 179: 243-250 (also his book, Geographic variation, speciation, and clines, Princeton Univ. Press, 1977). [mathematics of speciation!]

Rohwer, S., and C. Wood. 1998. Three hybrid zones between hermit and Townsend's warblers in Washington and Oregon. Auk 115: 284-310.

Harrison, R. G. (editor). 1993. Hybrid Zones and the Evolutionary Process. Oxford University Press. [recent reviews of all the issues about hybrid zones]

Lehman, N., A. Eisenhawer, K. Hanse, L. D. Mech, R. O. Peterson, P. J. P. Gogan, and R. K. Wayne. 1991. Introgression of coyote mtDNA into sympatric North American gray wolf populations. Evolution 45: 104-119. [gene transfer between vertebrate species!]

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