Essential readings in evolutionary biology

On the origin of species by means of natural selection (excerpt) / C. Darwin (1859)

The descent of man and selection in relation to sex (excerpt) / C. Darwin (1871)

A new factor in evolution / J.M. Baldwin (1896)

The incidence of alkaptonuria : a study in chemical individuality / A.E. Garrod (1902)

Mendelian proportions in a mixed population / G.H. Hardy (1908)

Sex limited inheritance in Drosophila / T.H. Morgan (1910)

Artificial transmutation of the gene / H.J. Muller (1927)

The genetical theory of natural selection : a review / S. Wright (1930)

A critique of the species concept in biology / T. Dobzhansky (1935)

Genetic control of biochemical reactions in Neurospora / G.W. Beadle and E.L. Tatum (1941)

The species concept / G.G. Simpson (1951)

Molecular structure of nucleic acids : a structure for deoxyribose nucleic acid / J.D. Watson and F.H.C. Crick (1953)

Hybridization as an evolutionary stimulus / E. Anderson and G.L. Stebbins (1954)

An experimental study of interaction between genetic drift and natural selection / T. Dobzhansky and O. Pavlovsky (1957)

An equilibrium theory of insular zoogeography / R.H. MacArthur and E.O. Wilson (1963)

The genetical evolution of social behavior. 1 / W.D. Hamilton (1964)

Butterflies and plants : a study in coevolution / P.R. Ehrlich and P.H. Raven (1964)

A molecular approach to the study of genic heterozygosity in natural populations. 2, Amount of variation and degree of heterozygosity in natural populations of Drosophila pseudoobscura / R.C. Lewontin and J.L. Hubby (1966)

Construction of phylogenetic trees / W.M. Fitch and E. Margoliash (1967)

Gene regulation for higher cells : a theory / R.J. Britten and E.H. Davidson (1969)

Protein polymorphism as a phase of molecular evolution / M. Kimura and T. Ohta (1971)

Punctuated equilibria : an alternative to phyletic gradualism / N. Eldredge and S.J. Gould (1972)

Nothing in biology makes sense except in the light of evolution / T. Dobzhansky (1973)

The logic of animal conflict / J. Maynard Smith and G.R. Price (1973)

Parent-offspring conflict / R.L. Trivers (1974)

Evolution at two levels in humans and chimpanzees / M.-C. King and A.C. Wilson (1975)

Evolution and tinkering / F. Jacob (1977)

Phylogenetic structure of the prokaryotic domain : the primary kingdoms / C.R. Woese and G.E. Fox (1977)

Mitochondrial DNA clones and matriarchal phylogeny within and among geographic populations of the pocket gopher, Geomys pinetis / J.C. Avise, C. Giblin-Davidson, J. Laerm, J.C. Patton, and R.A. Lansman (1979)

The spandrels of San Marco and the Panglossian paradigm : a critique of the adaptationist programme / S.J. Gould and R.C. Lewontin (1979)

Is a new evolutionary synthesis necessary? / G.L. Stebbins and F.J. Ayala (1981)

Biological classification : toward a synthesis of opposing methodologies / E. Mayr (1981)

Sexual selection, social competition, and speciation / M.J. West-Eberhard (1983)

The significance of responses of the genome to challenge / B. McClintock (1984)

On the virtues and pitfalls of the molecular evolutionary clock / F.J. Ayala (1986)

Intraspecific phylogeography : the mitochondrial DNA bridge between population genetics and systematics / J.C. Avise, J. Arnold, R. Martin Ball, E. Bermingham, T. Lamb, J.E. Neigel, C.A. Reeb, and N.C. Saunders (1987)

The evolution of sex and recombination / B. Charlesworth (1989)

Experimental phylogenetics : generation of a known phylogeny / D.M. Hillis, J.J. Bull, M.E. White, M.R. Badgett, I.J. Molineux (1992)

Gaia, nature worship and biocentric fallacies / G.C. Williams (1992)

Homeotic genes and the evolution of arthropods and chordates / S.B. Carroll (1995)

Transposable elements as sources of variation in animals and plants / M.G. Kidwell and D. Lisch (1997)

The chimeric eukaryote : origin of the nucleus from the karyomastigont in amitochondriate protists / L. Margulis, M.F. Dolan, and R. Guerrero (2000)

The evolutionary fate and consequences of duplicate genes / M. Lynch and J.S. Conery (2000)

Ecology and the origin of species / D. Schluter (2001)

Microbial minimalism : genome reduction in bacteria pathogens / N. Moran (2002)

Unpredictable evolution in a 30-year study of Darwin's finches / P.R. Grant and B.R. Grant (2002)

Genetics and the making of Homo sapiens / S.B. Carroll (2003)

Evolution experiments with microorganisms : the dynamics and genetic bases of adaptation / S.F. Elena and R.E. Lenski (2003)

Epilogue. Science and the public.