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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 MD/SC Books QH365 Ori The voyage of the Beagle. MD/SC Closed QH11 Dar Stacks S102050 REQUEST ITEM Charles Darwin's Beagle diary / edited by Richard Darwin Keynes. MD/SC Closed Stacks QH365 Dar S103826 The descent of man, and selection in relation to sex MD/SC Books QH365 Des REQUEST ITEM AVAILABLE The expression of the emotions in man and animals / with a preface by Konrad Lorenz. MD/SC Books QP401 Dar AVAILABLE 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 MD/SC Closed Stacks QH85 Wal Tropical nature and other essays. MD/SC Closed QH81 Wal Stacks S61715 REQUEST S102303 REQUEST 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. MD/SC Books QL101 Wal v0002 AVAILABLE Darwin and Wallace Evolution by natural selection [by] Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace. MD/SC Books QH365 Evo AVAILABLE Gregor Mendel Experiments in plant hybridisation ; Mendel's original paper in English translation, with commentary and assessment by Sir Ronald A. Fisher MD/SC Closed Stacks QH423 Men S61804 REQUEST ITEM 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] Imprint LOCATION MD/SC Closed Stacks Oxford : Clarendon Press, 1930. CALL # QH375 Fis STACK# S103972 STATUS RECENTLY RETURNED "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. Author Title Imprint LOCATION MD/SC Books 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. CALL # STACK# QH438 Hal STATUS AVAILABLE 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. Author Title Imprint LOCATION MD/SC Books Watson, James D. , 1928The double helix; a personal account of the discovery of the structure of DNA. Harmondsworth, Middlesex : Penguin Books, 1970. CALL # QD341 Aci.W STACK# STATUS AVAILABLE 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. Title Imprint Sociobiology : the new synthesis / Edward O. Wilson. Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1975. LOCATION MD/SC Books CALL # STACK# QL775 Wil STATUS AT BINDING +1 HOLD 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". Title Imprint LOCATION MD/SC RBR (Loans Desk) The selfish gene London : Granada Publishing, 1978 CALL # QL751 Daw STACK# STATUS AVAILABLE 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 Title Imprint Edition LOCATION CL Books Consciousness explained / Daniel C. Dennett ; illustrated by Paul Weiner. Boston : Little, Brown and Co. , c1991. 1st ed. CALL # B105 Con.D STACK# STATUS AVAILABLE 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. Title Imprint LOCATION CL RBR (Loans Desk 1) How the mind works / Steven Pinker. New York : W. W. Norton, 1997. CALL # QP360.5 Pin STACK# STATUS AVAILABLE 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. Title Imprint The conscious mind : in search of a fundamental theory / David J. Chalmers. New York : Oxford University Press, 1996. Click on the following to: View the electronic version (full-text) LOCATION CL Books CALL # BD418.3 Cha 1996 STACK# STATUS AVAILABLE 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. Title Imprint LOCATION MD/SC Books The structure of evolutionary theory / Stephen Jay Gould. Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, c2002. CALL # QH366.2 Gou 2002 STACK# STATUS AVAILABLE 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). Title Imprint LOCATION CL Books The history and geography of human genes / L. Luca CavalliSforza, Paolo Menozzi, Alberto Piazza. Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press , c1994. CALL # QH431 Cav STACK# STATUS AVAILABLE 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. Author Title Imprint Edition LOCATION CL RBR (Loans Desk 1) Title Imprint LOCATION CL Multimedia (Loans Desk 2) Diamond, Jared M. Guns, germs, and steel : the fates of human societies / Jared Diamond. New York : W.W. Norton & Co., c1997. 1st ed. CALL # STACK# HM206 Dia STATUS AVAILABLE 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. CALL # HM206 Gun 2005 2 dvds STACK# STATUS VIEW IN CDV2119 LIBRARY 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.