Alumnae Darwin Course
Prof. Sageman


Reading Assignments and PDF's for SAGEMAN LECTURES


All articles in the Norton Critical Edition on Darwin

THUSDAY 1/22

pp. 265-267: Sedgwick, Objections to Mr. Darwin?s
pp. 267-270: Owen, Darwin and the Origin
pp. 280-288: Lyell, Principles of Geology
pp.257-264: Hull, Darwin and his Critic

PDF for LECTURE 1

THURSDAY 1/29 pp. 319-325: Bowler, The Evolutionary Synthesis pp.344-348: Gould, On Punctuated Equilibrium pp. 349-355: Eldredge, The Great Stasis Debate

PDF for LECTURE 2

THURSDAY 2/5 pp. 289-300: Natl. Acad. Sci., Evolution and pp. 373-376: Gould et al., How natural selection... pp. 377-384: Grant, Darwin's Finches pp. 384-386: Endler, Natural Selection in the Wild

PDF for LECTURE 3


BOOKS mentioned in the Lectures


Michael Ruse, 2005, The Evolution-Creation Struggle, Harvard University Press. 
ISBN 13: 978-0-674-01687-3
http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog/RUSEVO.html


Sean Carroll, Jennifer Grenier, Scott Weatherbee, 2004, From DNA to Diversity: 
Molecular Genetics and the Evolution of Animal Design, 2nd Edition, Wiley-Blackwell.
ISBN 13: 9781405119504
http://www.wiley.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-1405119500.html


Also - a good source of information about the history of genetics:

Simon Mawer, 2006, Gregor Mendel: Planting the Seeds of Genetics, Abrams, NY. 
ISBN13: 978-0-8109-5748-0