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Some References for USC3002 Picturing the World Through Mathematics
Instructor: Wayne Lawton, Math Dept S14-04-04, [email protected]
19-th Century Developments
Darwin, Charles
The origin of species by means of natural selection, or, The preservation of favored
races in the struggle for life
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The voyage of the Beagle.
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Charles Darwin's Beagle diary / edited by Richard Darwin Keynes.
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The descent of man, and selection in relation to sex
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The expression of the emotions in man and animals / with a preface by Konrad
Lorenz.
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Wallace, Alfred Russell
Island life : or, The phenomena and causes of insular faunas and floras, including a
revision and attempted solution of the problem of geological climates
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Tropical nature and other essays.
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The geographical distribution of animals . With a study of the relations of living and
extinct faunas as elucidating the past changes of the earth's surface.
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Darwin and Wallace
Evolution by natural selection [by] Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace.
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Gregor Mendel
Experiments in plant hybridisation ; Mendel's original paper in English translation,
with commentary and assessment by Sir Ronald A. Fisher
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1900-1949 Developments
In his introductory notes on Mendel’s paper, Fisher states that Mendel read his celebrated
paper (above) at two meetings in 1865, published it in the following year, and that copies
of the paper were distributed to leading Academies of Europe. Nevertheless, it was not
until 1900 that three botanists: de Vries, Correns, and Tschermak independently
discovered it. Initially, the impact of Mendelian genetics was to cast doubt on the
hypothesis of natural selection as the mechanism of evolution. Fisher, Wright, and
Haldane unified the fields of evolution and genetics, this creating the NeoDarwinian
Synthesis, by applying mathematics to invent the field of population genetics. They
proved that Mendelian genetics explains how natural selection can produce evolution.
Fisher, Sir Ronald Aylmer, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronald_Fisher
FRS (17 February 1890 – 29 July 1962) was an English statistician, evolutionary
biologist, and geneticist. He was described by Anders Hald as "a genius who almost
single-handedly created the foundations for modern statistical science"[1] and Richard
Dawkins described him as "the greatest of Darwin's successors".[2]
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Oxford : Clarendon Press, 1930.
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"The correlation between relatives on the supposition of Mendelian inheritance" Trans.
Roy. Soc. Edinb., 52: 399-433. (1918). It was in this paper that the word variance was
first introduced into probability theory and statistics.
Sewall Green Wright, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sewall_Wright
ForMemRS (December 21, 1889 – March 3, 1988) was an American geneticist known
for his influential work on evolutionary theory. Along with R. A. Fisher and J.B.S.
Haldane, he was a founder of theoretical population genetics. Evolutionary biologists
argue as to whether Fisher or Wright made the greater contribution. He is the discoverer
of the inbreeding coefficient and of methods of computing it in pedigrees. He extended
this work to populations, computing the amount of inbreeding of members of populations
as a result of random genetic drift, and he and Fisher pioneered methods for computing
the distribution of gene frequencies among populations as a result of the interaction of
natural selection, mutation, migration and genetic drift. The work of Fisher, Wright, and
Haldane on theoretical population genetics was a major step in the development of the
modern evolutionary synthesis of genetics with evolution. Wright also made major
contributions to mammalian genetics and biochemical genetics.
"The roles of mutation, inbreeding, crossbreeding and selection in
evolution" (1932) Proceedings of the VI International Congress of
Genetrics: 1 pp 356-366
this paper can be downloaded at
http://www.blackwellpublishing.com/ridley/classictexts/wright.asp
John Burdon Sanderson Haldane, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._B._S._Haldane
FRS (November 5, 1892 – December 1, 1964), who normally used "J.B.S." as a first
name, was a British geneticist and evolutionary biologist. He was one of the founders
(along with Ronald Fisher and Sewall Wright) of population genetics.
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Haldane, J. B. S . (John Burdon Sanderson) , 1892-1964.
Selected genetic papers of J.B.S. Haldane / edited with an
introduction by Krishna R. Dronamraju ; foreword by James F.
Crow.
New York : Garland Pub., 1990.
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Developments Since 1950
Watson, James Dewey, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_D._Watson
Crick, Francis Harry Compton, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Crick
Wilkins, Maurice, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maurice_Wilkins
shared the 1962 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for their discoveries concerning
the molecular structure of nucleic acids and its significance for information transfer in
living material.
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Watson, James D. , 1928The double helix; a personal account of the discovery of the
structure of DNA.
Harmondsworth, Middlesex : Penguin Books, 1970.
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Wilson, Dawkins, Dennet, Pinker epitomize (for me) the Standard Model for the
Evolution of Behavior and Mind that is based on Material Reductionism.
Wilson, Edward Osborne, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E._O._Wilson
is an American biologist (Myrmecology, a branch of entomology), researcher
(sociobiology, biodiversity), theorist (consilience, biophilia), and naturalist
(conservationism).Wilson is known for his career as a scientist, his advocacy for
environmentalism, and his scientific humanist ideas concerned with religious, moral, and
ethical matters.[1] As of 2007, he was the Pellegrino Research Professor in Entomology
for the Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology at Harvard University and a
Fellow of the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry. He is a Humanist Laureate of the
International Academy of Humanism.
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Sociobiology : the new synthesis / Edward O. Wilson.
Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1975.
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Dawkins, Clinton Richard, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Dawkins
is a British ethologist, evolutionary biologist, and popular science writer who holds the
Charles Simonyi Chair for the Public Understanding of Science at Oxford University.
Dawkins first came to prominence with his 1976 book The Selfish Gene, which
popularised the gene-centered view of evolution and introduced the term meme into the
lexicon, helping found memetics. In 1982, he made a widely cited contribution to the
science of evolution with the theory, presented in his book The Extended Phenotype, that
phenotypic effects are not limited to an organism's body but can stretch far into the
environment, including into the bodies of other organisms. He has since written several
best-selling popular books, and appeared in a number of television and radio
programmes, concerning evolutionary biology, creationism, and religion. Dawkins is an
outspoken atheist, secular humanist, and sceptic, and he is a prominent member of the
Brights movement. In a play on Thomas Huxley's epithet "Darwin's bulldog", Dawkins'
impassioned advocacy of evolution has earned him the appellation "Darwin's rottweiler".
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The selfish gene
London : Granada Publishing, 1978
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Dennett, Daniel Clement, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Dennett
is a prominent American philosopher whose research centers on philosophy of mind,
philosophy of science and philosophy of biology, particularly as those fields relate to
evolutionary biology and cognitive science. Dennett is currently the Director of the
Center for Cognitive Studies and the Austin B. Fletcher Professor of Philosophy at Tufts
University. Dennett is also a noted atheist and advocate of the brights movement
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Consciousness explained / Daniel C. Dennett ; illustrated by Paul
Weiner.
Boston : Little, Brown and Co. , c1991.
1st ed.
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Pinker, Steven Arthur, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven_Pinker
is a prominent American experimental psychologist, cognitive scientist, and popular
science writer known for his spirited and wide-ranging advocacy of evolutionary
psychology and the computational theory of mind. Pinker’s academic specializations are
visual cognition and language development in children, and he is most famous for
popularizing the idea that language is an "instinct" or biological adaptation shaped by
natural selection rather than a by-product of general intelligence. His four books for a
general audience — The Language Instinct, How the Mind Works, Words and Rules and
The Blank Slate — have won numerous awards.
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How the mind works / Steven Pinker.
New York : W. W. Norton, 1997.
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Chalmers and Gould epitomize (for me) ‘Alternatives’ to the Standard Model.
Chalmers, David John, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Chalmers
is a philosopher in the area of philosophy of mind. He is Professor of Philosophy and
Director of the Centre for Consciousness at the Australian National University.
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The conscious mind : in search of a fundamental theory / David
J. Chalmers.
New York : Oxford University Press, 1996.
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View the electronic version (full-text)
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Gould, Stephen Jay, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Jay_Gould
was an American paleontologist, evolutionary biologist, and historian of science. He was
also one of the most influential and widely-read writers of popular science of his
generation, leading many commentators to call him "America's unofficial evolutionist
laureate". Gould spent most of his career teaching at Harvard University and working at
the American Museum of Natural History in New York.
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The structure of evolutionary theory / Stephen Jay Gould.
Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press,
c2002.
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Cavalii-Sforza and Diamond debunk racist explanations for the fates of human societies
Cavalli-Sforza, Luigi Luca, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cavalli-Sforza
is an Italian population geneticist born in Genoa, who has been a professor at Stanford
University since 1970 (now emeritus).
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The history and geography of human genes / L. Luca CavalliSforza, Paolo Menozzi, Alberto Piazza.
Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press , c1994.
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Diamond, Jared, M., http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jared_Diamond
is an American evolutionary biologist, physiologist, biogeographer and nonfiction author.
Diamond works as a professor of geography at UCLA. He is best known for the Pulitzer
Prize-winning book Guns, Germs, and Steel (1997). He also received the National Medal
of Science in 1999.
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Guns, germs, and steel : the fates of human societies / Jared
Diamond.
New York : W.W. Norton & Co., c1997.
1st ed.
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Guns, germs, and steel [videorecording] / produced by Lion TV
for National Geographic Television & Film ; produced and
directed by Tim Lambert, Cassian Harrison.
[United States] : National Geographic ; [Burbank, Calif.] : Distributed
by Warner Home Video, c2005.
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Intense activity is currently focused on describing the evolution of anatomically modern
humans – especially studies using genetics and paleontology that support or criticise the
Out of Africa Theory.