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A. From Darwin to the modern synthesis -- 1. Extract from an unpublished work on species / Charles Darwin -- 2. Abstract of a letter from C. Darwin, Esq., to Prof. Asa Gray, Boston, USA / Charles Darwin -- 3. Weismann and modern biology / John Maynard Smith -- 4. The nature of inheritance / R. A. Fisher -- 5. The roles of mutation, inbreeding, crossbreeding, and selection in evolution / Sewall Wright -- 6. Disease and evolution / J. B. S. Haldane -- B. Natural selection and random drift in populations -- 7. A resume of investigations on the evolution of melanism in the Lepidoptera / H. B. D. Kettlewell -- 8. Melanic morph frequency in the peppered moth in the Manchester area / L. M. Cook, R. L. H. Dennis and G. S. Mani -- 9. Birth weight and gestation time in relation to maternal age, parity, and infant survival / Mary N. Karn and L. S. Penrose -- 10. Natural selection associated with birth weight: towards the end of the stabilizing component / L. Ulizzi and L. Terrenato -- 11. Oscillating selection on Darwin's finches / H. Lisle Gibbs and Peter R. Grant -- 12. The paradox of variation / R. C. Lewontin -- 13. Recent development of the neutral theory viewed from the Wrightian tradition of theoretical population genetics / Motoo Kimura -- C. Adaptation -- 14. The nature of adaptation / R. A. Fisher -- 15. Adaptation and natural selection / G. C. Williams -- 16. Adaptation versus selection in progress / A. Grafen -- 17. An operational, nonhistorical definition of adaptation / H. K. Reeve and P. W. Sherman -- 18. The genetics of adaptation: a reassessment / H. Allen Orr and Jerry A. Coyne -- 19. The perfection of animals / A. J. Cain -- 20. The spandrels of San Marco and the Panglossian paradigm: a critique of the adaptationist programme / S. J. Gould and R. C. Lewontin -- 21. The selfish gene / Richard Dawkins -- D. Speciation and biodiversity -- 22. Typological versus population thinking / E. Mayr -- 23. Species concepts and their application / E. Mayr -- 24. The sterility of hybrids / Charles Darwin -- 25. Reproductive isolation as a product of genetic divergence and natural selection / Theodosius Dobzhansky -- 26. Laboratory experiments on speciation: what have we learned in 40 years? / William R. Rice and Ellen E. Hostert -- 27. The evolutionary genetics of speciation / Jerry A. Coyne and H. Allen Orr -- 28. Ecological basis of postmating isolation / Dolph Schluter -- 29. Hybrid speciation / V. Grant -- E. Macroevolution -- 30. Speciation in the fossil record / Douglas H. Erwin and Robert L. Anstey -- 31. Homology: an unsolved problem / Gavin de Beer -- 32. The ey gene / Richard Dawkins -- 33. Molecules and morphology: where's the homology? / W. J. Dickinson -- 34. The fundamental law of organic evolution / E. Haeckel -- 35. Three poems / W. Garstang -- F. Evolutionary genomics -- 36. Lateral gene transfer and the nature of bacterial innovation / Howard Ochman, Jeffrey G. Lawrence and Eduardo A. Groisman -- 37. The origins of genomic duplications in Arabidopsis / Todd J. Vision, Daniel G. Brown and Steven D. Tanksley -- 38. Initial sequencing and analysis of the human genome / International Human Genome Sequencing Consortium -- 39. Genetics of the making of Homo sapiens / Sean B. Carroll -- 40. Co-option of eye structures and genes / R. A. Raff -- 41. Planetary biology - paleontological, geological, and molecular histories of life / Steven A. Benner, M. Daniel Caraco, J. Michael Thomson and Eric A. Gaucher -- G. The history of life -- 42. From chemistry to heredity / John Maynard Smith and Eors Szathmary -- 43. Disparate rates, differing fates: tempo and mode of evolution changed from the Precambrian to the Phanerozoic / J. William Schopf -- 44. Evolutionary explosions and the phylogenetic fuse / Alan Cooper and Richard Fortey -- 45. Towards a new synthesis: major evolutionary trends in the angiosperm fossil record / David Dilcher -- H. Case studies -- 46. An unsolved problem of biology / P. B. Medawar -- 47. The origin of the genetic code / F. H. C. Crick -- 48. The maintenance of sex / J. Maynard Smith -- 49. A caricuture of seed dispersal by animal guts / D. H. Janzen -- 50. A pessimistic estimate of the time required for an eye to evolve / Dan-E. Nilsson and Susanne Pelger -- 51. Evolutionary novelty: the example of lactose synthetase / John Gerhart and Mark Kirschner -- 52. The evolution of mutation rates: separating causes from consequences / Paul D. Sniegowski, Philip J. Gerrish, Toby Johnson and Aaron Shaver -- I. Human evolution -- 53. Immunological time scale for hominid evolution / Vincent M. Sarich and Allan C. Wilson -- 54. Evolution at two levels in humans and chimpanzees / Mary-Claire King and A. C. Wilson -- 55. Divergence between samples of chimpanzee and human DNA sequences is 5%, counting indels / Roy J. Britten -- 56. Our load of mutations / H. J. Muller -- 57. On the non-existence of human races / Frank B. Livingstone -- 58. The scars of human evolution / Wilton M. Krogman -- 59. The big bang / Steven Pinker -- J. Evolution and human affairs -- 60. Evolution's struggle for existence in America's public schools / Michael F. Antolin and Joan M. Herbers -- 61. Nothing in biology makes sense except in the light of evolution / Theodosius Dobzhansky -- 62. The argument from design / David Hume -- 63. On the molecular theory of evolution / J. L. Monod -- 64. Evolution and ethics / Thomas Henry Huxley -- 65. Humans as the world's greatest evolutionary force / Stephen R. Palumbi. |
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