Reading List; articles to read in addition to text book.

• Lecture 1:  Gould, S. J., 1983. The titular bishop of Titiopolis. Chapter 5 in Hen's Teeth and Horse's Toes, 69-78. handed out in class.
• Lecture 2: S. J. Gould, 1977. The child as man's real father. Chapter 7, in Ever Since Darwin, p. 63-69; S. J. Gould, 1977. Size and Shape. Chapter 21, in Ever Since Darwin, p. 171-179 handed out in class.
• Lecture 3: Online Reading. D. Prothero, punctuated equilibrium at twenty: a paleontological perspective. http://www.skeptic.com/01.3.prothero-punc-eq.html
• Lecture 4. Gould, S. J., 1984. A most ingenious paradox. Natural History 12/84, 20-on. handed out in class.
• Lecture 5. Gould, S. J., 2000. Linnaeus' Luck? Natural History, September 2000. handed out in class.
• Lecture 6. Darwin, The Origin of Species, Conclusion ( final chapter ).
• Lecture 7. Lipps, J. H., 1981. What, if anything, is micropaleontology? Paleobiology 7, 167-199. handed out in class
• Lecture 8.Erwin, D., 1994. The Mother of Mass Extinctions. Chapter 9, The Great Paleozoic Crisis, p. 223-258; handed out in class; also read web notes on Permo-Triassic (P/T) and Cretaceous/Tertiary (K/T) extinctions
• Lecture 9: On-line reading: Lecture by J. Lipps on Cambrian Explosion at http://www.accessexcellence.org/BF/bf02/lipps/bf02c1.html. S. J. Gould, 1986: Play it again, Life (Natural History), available on-line at http://ethomas.web.wesleyan.edu/ees227.9/gould_feb_86.htm
• Lecture 10. Fortey, R., 2000.  Exploding trilobites, Chapter 5 in 'Trilobite: eyewitness to evolution'. p. 120-145; handed out in class; on line reading: Hoffman, P. F. and Schrag, D., 1999. Snowball Earth. Scientific American.; D. H. Erwin, 2001. 1.2. The Cambrian Radiation. In: D. E. G. Briggs and P. R. Crowther, eds., Paleobiology II, Blackwell Science.; handed out in class.
• Lecture 11. Gould, S. J., and Lewontin, R. C., 1979. The spandrels of San Marco and the Panglossian paradigm: a critique of the adaptations program. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London (B), vol. 205, p. 581-598 (also here). Available on line at. Olshansky, S. J., Carnes, B., and Butler, R. N., 2003. If humans were built to last. Scientific American, special issue Evolution. Available on line from Wesleyan Library, go to 'Select Locator & E-journals', enter search term 'Scientific American', choose button 'Scientific American archive', choose 'advanced search', type in title of article. You may be able to directly enter the Scientific American archive if you are at a Wesleyan connection.

• Lecture 12. Wells, M., 1998. How old is a fish? In: Civilization and the limpet, p. 28-34; Wells, M., 1998. The dilemma of the jet  set. In: Civilization and the limpet, p. 188-194; S. J. Gould, 1994. The evolution of life on Earth. Scientific American, October, p. 63-69; the text without figures is available on the web: 'Contingency of Evolution';
• Lecture 13: L. G. Marshall, 1994. The terror birds of South America. Scientific American, February 1994. Available on line from Wesleyan Library, go to 'Select Locator & E-journals', enter search term 'Scientific American', choose button 'Scientific American archive', choose 'advanced search', type in title of article. You may be able to directly enter the Scientific American archive if you are at a Wesleyan connection.
• Lecture 14. read notes on class web page; Permo-Triassic extinction
• M. Benton, 1993, Dinosaur summer (In: S. J. Gould, ed., The Book of Life), section 'The rise of the flowering plants', p. 152-157; handed out in class.
• Lecture 16. Graham, J. B., Dudley, R., Aguilar, N. M. and Gans, C., 1995. Implications of the late Paleozoic oxygen pulse for physiology and evolution. Nature, vol. 375, p. 117-120 (handed out in class).
• Lecture 17. Martin Wells, 1998, The life of a lugworm, In: Civilization and the limpet, p. 67-73; Seilacher, A., Bose, P. K., and  Pflüger, F., 1998. Triploblastic Animals More Than 1 Billion Years Ago: Trace Fossil Evidence from India, Science, 282: 80-83
• Lecture 18. Johnson, C. J., 2002. The rise and fall of rudist reefs. American Scientist, Vol. 90, p. 148-153 ; Vermeij, G. J., 1999. Inequality and the Directionality of history. The American Naturalist, vol. 153 (3), p. 243-253; Wells, M., 1998. On being both sexes In: Civilization and the limpet, p. 18-27.
• Lecture 19. Callomon, J. H., 2001, Fossils as geological clocks. Geol. Soc. London Spec. Publ. 190, 237-252.
• Lecture 20. Gould, S. J., 1993. Chapter 7. Full of Hot Air. In: Eight Little Piggies, p. 109-120; Zimmer, C., 1995 Coming onto the Land. Discover, vol. 16 p. 118-27.
• Lecture 21. Gould, S. J., 1993. An earful of Jaw. In: Eight Little Piggies, Ch. 6, p. 95-108; Gould, S. J., 1993. Eight Little Piggies. In: Eight Little Piggies, Ch. 4, p. 63-78
• Lecture 22. Zimmer, C., 2003. Great Mysteries of Human Evolution. Discover September 2003, p. 34-43
• Lecture 23. Gould, S. J., 1994. The evolution of Life on Earth. Scientific American, October 1994, p. 63-69; the text without figures is available on the web: 'Contingency of Evolution'. This paper was reprinted in Scientific American 2004, Special Edition: Dinosaurs and other monsters, p. 92-100. Benton, M. J., 2001. Biodiversity on land and in the sea. Geological Journal, v. 36, p. 211-230.
• Gould, S. J., 1994. The evolution of Life on Earth. Scietific American, October 1994, p. 63-69; the text without figures is available on the web: 'Contingency of Evolution'. Reprinted 2004; Benton, M. J., 2001. Biodiversity on land and in the sea. Geological Journal, v. 36, p. 211-230. A .pdf file of this paper can be downloaded from this site; Lewontin, R. C., 1993. Biology as ideology, Chapter 5: Science as Social Action. p. 107-123; Wells, M., 1998. On being both sexes In: Civilization and the limpet, p. 18-27.