Secret Biology Readings......

Makeup Films and Resources for Ice Storm...
NOTE: If you try and stream these and they skip, download them to your computer and play them from there. If they are still garbled, try a different player. On my office computer some of them are unwatchable with Real Player but are fine with Windows Media Player.

• Evolution
• READ Evolution: medicine's most basic science. The Table of Contents says it starts on page 21. It actually starts on page 26. A stand-alone version is HERE.
• Seminar and Additional Readings/Podcasts on Origins
• Animal Diversity
  • PowerPoint: Temperature, Osmotic, and Urinary Regulation
  • You can work in groups of 2-3 for this exercise. Review the Population Growth Section, Run the Simulation, and E-mail the Answers. In the Subject line enter "Pop Growth" and your last names.
• Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior
  • Mechanisms of Evolution. Peppered Moth Simulation. 

Radio Programs and Media

• A new way to look for alien life
• California Warming
• Invasive Species
• Women and Global Population Growth
• Evolution Schmevolution

General Readings

• Biology by the Numbers
• Humbled by the genome's mysteries
• Unification in Biology
• Life's Patterns
• Bush, the Environmental President 
• Bush and Kerry on Science

Environmental Biology

• Environmental Biology Sample Student Library Research
• Stella Activity for Population Growth
• GM CROPS
• GM Papaya Takes On Ringspot Virus and Wins
• Green Genes
• Tough Lessons From Golden Rice
• A Life With Grapes
• Beyond Malthus
• Air Pollution and Inherited Mutations
• Water will be in short supply
• Promises and Perils of Nanotechnology
• Nanotech's Dark Side
• PHENOLOGY: Responses to a Warming World
• Evolutionary Impact of Invasive Species
• Human-caused Environmental Change- Effects on Plant Evolution
• See this Global Environment Report
• Already the Day After Tomorrow
• Climate Change Consensus
• Climate Impact on Plankton
• Heat Waves Will Increase in Severity
• Methane Hydrates, mass extinctions, and global warming
• A heavy toll of disease fuels suspicion and anger

Ecology

• Models
  • Stella Main
  • Stella Activity for Population Growth
  • General Model for Food Web Structure (A supplement is HERE)
  • Secret/Free Access to Landsat Imagery.pdf
• Mathcad Information and Simulations
• General Readings
  • Extending Genomics to Natural Communities and Ecosystems
  • Diversity and Productivity in a Long-Term Grassland Experiment
  • Biodiversity and Ecosystem Functioning: Current Knowledge and Future Challenges
  • The Effect of Habitat Fragmentation of Collared Lizards
  • The Future of Coral Reefs
  • What was Natural in the Coastal Waters?
  • Avian Flu Epidemic
  • Directed Evolution of Herbicide Resistance
  • Domains of Diversity
  • Dinosaurs as doting parents
  • T. rex growth spurt
  • Chaotic Food Webs
  • Squirrel Wars 
  • The Inner Lives of Sponges (bacterial symbiosis)
  • Microbial Ecology of Ocean Biogeochemistry: A Community Perspective
  • SYSTEMS BIOLOGY: The Scale of Prediction
  • Toward a Global Biodiversity Observing System
  • Disentangling the Web of Life
• Plant Stuff (Genomes)
  • GM CROPS
  • GM Papaya Takes On Ringspot Virus and Wins
  • Green Genes
  • Tough Lessons From Golden Rice
  • Harvesting Data From Genetically Engineered Crops
  • Selection on Major Components of Angiosperm Genomes
  • Synteny and Collinearity in Plant Genomes
  • The Epigenetic Landscape of Plants
• Plant Stuff (Forests)
  • Paleoecology: Fossils help figure out webs old and new
  • The Future of Forests
  • A Second Chance for Rainforest Biodiversity
  • Critical Time for African Rainforests
  • Forests of the Past: A Window to Future Changes
  • Predictive Models of Forest Dynamics
  • Reducing Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation: Global Land-Use Implications
  • Managing Forests for Climate Change Mitigation
  • Beyond Deforestation: Restoring Forests and Ecosystem Services on Degraded Lands
  • Changing Governance of the World's Forests
  • Animal Versus Wind Dispersal and the Robustness of Tree Species to Deforestation
  • Ecosystem Feedbacks and Nitrogen Fixation in Boreal Forests
  • A Significant Upward Shift in Plant Species Optimum Elevation During the 20th Century
• Climate Change
  • See this Global Environment Report
  • Already the Day After Tomorrow
  • Climate Change Consensus
  • Climate Impact on Plankton (and Supplement)
  • Heat Waves Will Increase in Severity (and Supplement)
  • Carbon Conundrum
  • Methane Hydrates, mass extinctions, and global warming
  • Getting Warmer
  • Water will be in short supply
  • Adaptive Phenotypic Plasticity in Response to Climate Change in a Wild Bird Population
  • GLOBAL WARMING: Hurricanes Won't Go Wild, According to Climate Models
  • Putting the Heat on Tropical Animals
  • A Significant Upward Shift in Plant Species Optimum Elevation During the 20th Century
  • Did You Say "Fast"?
  • Climate Change Hot Spots Mapped Across the United States
  • A Matter of Timing (Reproduction timing)
• Environment
  • Species Coextinctions and Biodiversity
  • PHENOLOGY: Responses to a Warming World
  • Power Steer
  • Beyond Malthus
  • Air Pollution and Inherited Mutations
  • Salmon Hatcheries
  • Promises and Perils of Nanotechnology
  • Nanotech's Dark Side
  • Carbon Cycle and Rivers
  • Spreading Dead Zones and Consequences for Marine Ecosystems
  • NANOTECHNOLOGY: Can High-Speed Tests Sort Out Which Nanomaterials Are Safe?
• Soil Stuff!
  • Soils
  • Breaking the Sod
  • Defrosting the Carbon Freezer
  • Ecological Linkages Between Aboveground and Belowground Biota
  • From Alaska to Yucatan
  • Interactions and Self-Organization in the Soil-Microbe Complex
  • Soil and Trouble
  • Soil Carbon Sequestration Impacts on Global Climate
  • The Secret Life of Fungi
  • Wounding Earth's Fragile Skin (map is here)
  • Have Desert Researchers Discovered a Hidden Loop in the Carbon Cycle?

Behavior

• Secret Ethology Labs (ALCOCK STUFF)
• Barry Sinervo Site and Text Chapters (look HERE if it doesn't work)
• Stella
• Vocal Babbling in a Songbird (Supplemental material with WAVs is here)
• The Zombie Within
• A Natural History of Rape (Selected Chapters): Forward, Preface, Chapter 1, Chapter 3
• Sex Differences in the Brain
• Tinburgen
• Child Abuse
• Genesis of Suicide Terrorism (Comments)
• Learning to Forget and Memory Enhancers
• Behavioral Evolution: The Evolution of the Golden Rule
• Chimp Gangs
• Evolution's Rainbow
• Synaptic Strength
• Warrior Gene
• Aspirin changes sexual behavior of rats
• Too much testosterone blights social skills
• Hormones converge for couples in love
• First flush of love not emotional
• Animal Minds
• Not just a pretty face
• Nicaragua Sign Language (Supplement is here) Movies are here and here. A short version is here.
• Alarm Calls Synopsis (Full Article)
• New Ant Genetics Synopsis (Full Article) Human Genetics and Normal Haplodiploidy is here.
• Ovulating Women Favor Dominant Men's Smell
• Belief Systems
• Conditioned Fear of Race
• Evolutionary Psychology
• A Stridulating Bird
• Strong Personalities and Mating
• Outsmarted by Ants
• Dance and Fluctuating Asymmetry
  • Movie 1: Symmetrical Male Dancing
  • Movie 2: Asymmetrical Male Dancing
  • Evolution of Dance
• The Scent of a Man
• The Trouble with Men
• The Language of Song

Evolution

• Sample Student Final Projects in Evolution
• Seminars
  • Readings/Podcasts on Origins
  • Readings/Podcasts on Speciation I
  • Readings/Podcasts on Speciation II
• Mathcad Information and Simulations
• Darwin's Originality
• Modernizing the Modern Synthesis
• Origin of Species in Overdrive
• Breakthrough of the Year: Evolution in Action 
  • Movie
  • Breakthrough of the Year: Runner ups
• Astrobiology
  • Astrobiology and the Origin of Life
  • Astrobiology
  • Life in the Universe
  • Panspermia
  • Impact formation of the Moon
  • Major Impact off Australia
• Origin of Life
  • Archaebacteria
  • Cell Evolution
  • Current Perspectives on the Origin of Life
  • Dawn of Life
  • In the Beginning
  • Life Origins Outline
  • The Origin of Life
  • The Precambrian
  • Hydrocarbons from Vents
  • The Evolution of Life on Earth
  • Arsenic(III) Fuels Anoxygenic Photosynthesis in Hot Spring Biofilms from Mono Lake, California
  • Humbled by the genome's mysteries
• Evo Devo
  • Gang of Four
  • A Dual Role for Hox Genes in Limb Anterior-Posterior Asymmetry
  • Grasping Limb Patterning
  • Ghost in Your Genes (Movie)
    • Main
    • Epigenetic Therapy
    • A Tale of Two Mice
    • Ask the Expert
    • Gene Switches
  • Humbled by the genome's mysteries
• HHMI - Related Articles
  • Vetustivernis
  • Halwaxids
  • Evolutionary Dynamics of Biological Games
  • Changing a Fish's Bony Armor in the Wink of a Gene

  • Unpredictable Evolution (Finches)

  • Bacteria Subsisting on Antibiotics

  • Avalon Explosion Shaped Early History of Multicellular Life (NOTE: the paper starts on page 2)
  • Sex, Sunflowers, and Speciation (Original article is here)
• General Evolution
  • Plants
    • Sex, Sunflowers, and Speciation (Original article is here)
    • GM CROPS
    • GM Papaya Takes On Ringspot Virus and Wins
    • Green Genes
    • Tough Lessons From Golden Rice
    • Extending Genomics to Natural Communities and Ecosystems
    • General Model for Food Web Structure
    • Harvesting Data From Genetically Engineered Crops
    • Paleoecology: Fossils help figure out webs old and new
    • Selection on Major Components of Angiosperm Genomes
    • Synteny and Collinearity in Plant Genomes
    • The Epigenetic Landscape of Plants
  • Behavioral
    • Behavioral Evolution: The Evolution of the Golden Rule
    • Species interactions and the origin of sex
    • Evolution's Rainbow
    • Warrior Gene
    • Hormones converge for couples in love
    • First flush of love not emotional
    • Animal Minds
    • Not just a pretty face
    • Nicaragua Sign Language (Supplement is here) Movies are here and here. A short version is here.
    • Alarm Calls Synopsis (Full Article)
    • New Ant Genetics Synopsis (Full Article) Human Genetics and Normal Haplodiploidy is here.
    • Ovulating Women Favor Dominant Men's Smell
    • Evolutionary Psychology
    • Strong Personalities and Mating
    • Dance and Fluctuating Asymmetry
      • Movie 1: Symmetrical Male Dancing
      • Movie 2: Asymmetrical Male Dancing
      • Evolution of Dance
    • The Scent of a Man
    • The Trouble with Men
    • The Language of Song
    • Ancestral Monogamy Shows Kin Selection Is Key to the Evolution of Eusociality
    • Evolutionary Origins for Social Vocalization in a Vertebrate Hindbrain-Spinal Compartment
    • Voting: In Your Genes?
    • The Sociable Brain
    • Do Good Sperm Predict a Good Brain?
  • Mass Extinctions
    • Biotic Recoveries from Mass Extinction 
    • Evolutionary Impact of Mass Extinctions
    • Methane Hydrates, mass extinctions, and global warming
  • Genetics
    • Genomes Don't Play Dice
    • Y Chromosome and Palindromic DNA Sequences
    • Mobile Elements as drivers of genome evolution
    • Evolutionary Shotgun Analysis of the Sargasso (More here)
    • New Ant Genetics Synopsis (Full Article) Human Genetics and Normal Haplodiploidy is here.
  • Creationism Crap
    • Evolution and Creationism
    • Scopes Trial Pix
    • Georgia and Evolution
  • Various Species
    • Evolution of Dinosaurs
    • Early Origins of the Purrrrfect Pet
    • Horned Lizard
    • T. rex growth spurt
    • Dinosaurs as doting parents
    • Strong Personalities and Mating
    • Genetic Structure of Purebred Dog
    • Confusing Kinships (Microbial Taxonomy)
    • Massive Horizontal Gene Transfer in Bdelloid Rotifers
  • Microbial Resistance
    • Deadly Defiance
    • Antibiotics and Antibiotic Resistance Genes in Natural Environments
    • The Bacteria Fight Back
    • The Rise of Resistant C. difficile
    • Trench Warfare in a Battle With TB
    • Anti-TB Drugs: And Then There Were None
    • Outwitting Multidrug Resistance to Antifungals
• More Stuff of Interest
  • Vetustivernis
  • Halwaxids
  • Evolutionary Dynamics of Biological Games
  • Changing a Fish's Bony Armor in the Wink of a Gene

  • Unpredictable Evolution (Finches)

  • Bacteria Subsisting on Antibiotics

  • Avalon Explosion Shaped Early History of Multicellular Life (NOTE: the paper starts on page 2)
  • Sex, Sunflowers, and Speciation (Original article is here)
  • Fins to Fingers (short version    -----   Full Article) Comments are here. Response is here.
  • Insights into Evolutionary Innovation
  • Evolutionary Dynamics of Biological Games
  • Evolutionary Ecology of the Prezygotic Stage
  • Building the Tree of Life, Genome by Genome
• Evolutionary Ecology
  • Stella
  • Evolutionary Impact of Invasive Species
  • Human-caused Environmental Change- Effects on Plant Evolution
  • Loss of Speciation Rate will Impoverish Future Biodiversity
  • Declines in Biota: Future of Evolution
  • The Biotic Crisis and the Future of Evolution
  • Behavioral Evolution
  • Directed Evolution of Herbicide Resistance
  • Pesticide resistance in Drosophila
  • Alcohol: The Party Gene
  • SYSTEMS BIOLOGY: The Scale of Prediction
• Human Evolution
  • Evolution at Two Levels in Humans and Chimpanzees- Original Article
  • Blue Eyes
  • The Evolution Revolution.
  • Dance and Fluctuating Asymmetry
    • Movie 1: Symmetrical Male Dancing
    • Movie 2: Asymmetrical Male Dancing
  • Palaeoanthropology: Hominid revelations from Chad
  • A new hominid from the Upper Miocene of Chad
  • First Words
  • Evolutionary Psychology
  • Human Population Bottleneck
  • Speaking in Tongues
  • The First Language
  • Endocasts
  • Genesis of Suicide Terrorism (Some comments are here)
  • Read Selected Chapters in "A Natural History of Rape" in Secret Readings
  • Flores man  
  • More on Flores man
  • Nicaragua Sign Language (Supplement is here) Movies are here and here. A short version is here.
  • Evolutionary Psychology
  • Sex Differences in the Brain
  • The Scent of a Man
  • The Trouble with Men
  • New Fossils Illustrate "Bushiness" of Human Evolution
  • Child Abuse
  • Genesis of Suicide Terrorism (Comments)
  • A Natural History of Rape (Selected Chapters): Forward, Preface, Chapter 1, Chapter 3
  • Tracing Humanity's Path
  • Biological Basis of the Third-Cousin Crush (Short Version Actual Article)
• Darwinian Medicine/ Human Readings
  • Child Abuse
  • Evolutionary Psychology
  • Genesis of Suicide Terrorism (Comments)
  • A Natural History of Rape (Selected Chapters): Forward, Preface, Chapter 1, Chapter 3
  • Immunology and the Matrix
  • Environmental Health Perspectives
  • Parasite Selection for Immunogenetic Optimality
  • The Scent of a Man
  • The Trouble with Men
  • Darwinian Medicine
    • Evolution and Medicine Network
    • Medicine needs evolution
    • Darwin in Medical School
    • A primer on evolution medicine
    • Immunology and the Matrix
    • Environmental Health Perspectives
    • Parasite Selection for Immunogenetic Optimality
    • Air Pollution and Inherited Mutations
    • Mutants, one and all