Evolutionary and Population Ecology


  1. Evolutionary Ecology Reading Links (Unsorted)
  2. Without Miracles by Gary Cziko
  3. Selected reading from A Natural History of Rape: Biological Basis of Sexual Coercion
  4. Ecology Returns to Speciation Studies.
  5. Early Life Thrived Despite Earthly Travails.
  6. Going Beyond Appearances to Find Life's Early History.
  7. The Future of the Fossil Record.
  8. The Evolution of Species Interactions.
  9. Chemical Etiology of Nucleic Acid Structure.
  10. Early Animal Evolution: Emerging Views from Biology and Geology.
  11. Phylogenetic Classification and the Universal Tree.
  12. Early Animal Evolution: Emerging Views from Comparative Biology and Geiology.
  13. The Evolution of Dinosaurs.
  14. Response of Plant-Insect Associations to Paleocene-Eocene Warming
  15. Visit the Quantitative Population Ecology Web Page. General readings on many topics can be found here. Visit it often during the semester,
  16. The Evolutionary Biology of Weeds.
  17. Sex and Conflict. The evolutionary basis.
  18. Population Cycles.
  19. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder: Causes and consequences of variation in mating preferences.
  20. Natural and Sexual Selection.
  21. Levels of Selection. (Individual, Kin, etc.)
  22. A quickie on survivorship, r- and k selection.
  23. The cost of helping.
  24. A quickie on population growth.
  25. Can seasonal changes in density dependance drive population cycles?
  26. Another quick read on human population growth.
  27. Molecular Coproscopy: Dung and Diet of the Extinct Ground Sloth Nothrotheriops shastensis.
  28. Evolution and the Origin of Disease. Read the Scientific American article.
  29. The Fate of the Neanderthals.
  30. Night comes to the Cretaceous. Read about the KT boundary. More on mass extinctions here
  31. The evolution of beauty. Read about it here.
  32. Mutual Nonaggression Pact May Aid Ant Spread. Science
  33. Tracking the Long-Term Decline and Recovery of an Isolated Population.
  34. Decoupled Temporal Patterns of Evolution and Ecology in Two Post-Paleozoic Clades.
  35. The Evolutionary Ecology of Dispersal.
  36. Elephant Listening Project