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