Darwin's precursors and influences: Links

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Darwin's Precursors and Influences

Links to Evolution

and Darwin related sites

All these links are the property of their owners and authors, etc, and apart from those signed by me they aren't mine, so don't blame me for any errors and whatnot. Caveat lector. If you fail biology 101 because of these links, tough. Mostly, though, these are pretty good sites, often written by experts. Thanks to Prof Charles Urbanowicz for a number of these links.

Evolution in general

Evolution Entrance - Evolution: History and Theory at the site for The Museum of Paleontology of The University of California at Berkeley (UCMB).

History of Biology - focusing on Darwin and evolution

General

Papers on the History of Biology

MendelWeb Homepage - a project of articles and resources related to Mendelian genetics; including many good essays on its history.

Darwin Evolves - links at California State University, Chico, California

18th century and earlier

Aristotle - Short biography at UCMB

Georgius Agricola - Short biography at UCMB

John Ray - Short biography at UCMB

Carolus Linnaeus - Short biography at UCMB

Georges Cuvier - Short biography at UCMB

Étienne Geoffroy St. Hilaire - Short biography at /faqs/origin.html">The Origin of Species (2nd edition 1860, with "Historical Sketch" from the 3rd edition)

The Voyage of the Beagle (text)

The Voyage of The Beagle (Web - www.literature.org)

The Descent of Man (text)

The Expression of the Emotions....(1872 - selected chapters, part of a George Herbert Mead Project at the Department of Sociology, Brock University, Ontario, Canada )

Darwin bibliography
Located at San Francisco State University

Alfred Russel Wallace

A bibliography

Wallace's writings

On the Law Which Has Regulated the Introduction of New Species
Text only. His groundbreaking 1855 paper that started biogeography.
On the Tendency of Varieties to Depart Indefinitely from the Original Type
Text only. His 1858 paper jointly presented with Darwin's notes and letters.

Thomas Henry Huxley - Short biography at UCMB

Ernst Haeckel - Short biography at UCMB

Johannes Mueller - Nathan Comfort's page

Edward Drinker Cope - Short biography at UCMB

Henry Fairfield Osborn - Short biography at UCMB

Topics relating to Darwinism

Social Darwinism - paper at Keith Garbutt's site, Department of Biology, West Virginia University

Sexual Selection - paper at Keith Garbutt's site, Department of Biology, West Virginia University

20th century pre-synthesis

Mendelian genetics

The Mendel Web

Original papers

Mendel, Gregor. 1865. Experiments in plant hybridization. Verhandlungen des naturforschenden Vereines in Brünn, Bd. IV für das Jahr 1865, Abhandlungen, 3-47 (Acrobat file)

Bateson, William. 1899. Hybridisation and cross-breeding as a method of scientific investigation. Journal of the Royal Horticultural Society, 24:59-66 (Acrobat file)

Bateson, William. 1900. Problems of heredity as a subject for horticultural investigation. Journal of the Royal Horticultural Society, 25:54-61. (Acrobat file)

Garrod, Archibald E. 1902. The incidence of alkaptonuria: A study in chemical individuality. Lancet, ii:1616-1620. (Acrobat file)

Sutton, Walter S. 1902. On the morphology of the chromosome group in Brachystola magna. Biological Bulletin, 4:24-39. (Acrobat file)

Morgan, Thomas, H. 1909. What are "factors" in Mendelian explanations? American Breeders Association Reports, 5:365-369 (Acrobat file)

Hardy, G. H. 1908. Mendelian Proportions in a Mixed Population. Science, NS. XXVIII:49-50 (Acrobat file)

Bridges, Calvin B. 1914. Direct proof through non-disjunction that the sex-linked genes of Drosophila are borne on the X-chromosome. Science, NS vol. XL:107-109 (Acrobat file)

Muller, Herbert J. 1922. Variation due to change in the individual gene. The American Naturalist, 56:32-50. (Acrobat file)

Riddle, Oscar. 1924. Any Hereditary Character and the Kinds of Things We Need to Know About It. The American Naturalist, LVIII:410-425. (Acrobat file)

Wright, Sewall. 1932. Complementary Factors for Eye Color in Drosophila. The American Naturalist, LXVI:282-283. (Acrobat file)

Essays on Mendelism

"Heredity Before Mendel" - from MendelWeb

Jan Sapp's "Nine Lives" at MendelWeb

"Mendel, Mendelism and Genetics" - from MendelWeb

"Mendel in America: Theory and Practice, 1900-1919"

Alfred Sturtevant

The Mendelian Biometrician Controversy - paper at Keith Garbutt's site, Department of Biology, West Virginia University

Chromosomal inheritance - paper at Keith Garbutt's site, Department of Biology, West Virginia University

"In the Footsteps of Mendel" - from MendelWeb

Eugenics - paper at Keith Garbutt's site, Department of Biology, West Virginia University

About T.H. Morgan - From Nathan Comfort's page

Thomas Hunt Morgan - From Nathan Comfort's page

Synthesis

The Modern Synthesis of Genetics and Evolution - from the Talk.Origins site

Random Genetic Drift: An Evolutionary Force - from the Talk.Origins site

Biogeography - paper at Keith Garbutt's site, Department of Biology, West Virginia University

Punctuated Equilibrium at Twenty - from the American Skeptic magazine

Evolutionary Computation

Out of Africa vs. Multiregionalism

Neanderthals (Our Ancestors or Not?)

Punctuated Equilibria - from the Talk.Origins site

Phylogenetic systematics and its relationship to biogeography (Giacobbe)

The Baldwin Effect: A Bibliography

Articles from the American Skeptics

The (Im)moral Animal: A Quick and Dirty Guide to Evolutionary Psychology and the Nature of Human Nature. By Frank Miele.

An Urchin in a Haystack: An Interview With Stephen Jay Gould

Cosmythology: Was the Universe Designed to Produce Us?

General Biology and Anthropology

Origins of Humankind (Human Evolution, Paleoanthropology, Physical Anthropology, Prehistoric Man)

The Tree of Life Home Page - a project at the University of Arizona to give a complete phylogenetic tree for all organisms, obviously a work in progress.

Mammal Species of the World Home Page

Harvard Biology 17 Homepage - This is the introduction course in biology at Harvard.

Cladistics home page, SEMO

Systematics in Prehistory

Jeff's Journal of Dinosaur Paleontology

UCMP Glossary of Phylogenetic Terms

Proceedings -- Biological Nomenclature

Palaeoanthropology Exposition

Life and earth science resources - from the Natural History Museum in the UK

Catastrophism - paper at Keith Garbutt's site, Department of Biology, West Virginia University

Graphics for complex analysis -- Douglas N. Arnold

Philosophy/Neuroscience/Psychology at Washington University

Classification Society of North America

Philosophy of Science & Information Technology

Science and Technology

Evolution outside biology

The Darwin-L Web Server - a list devoted to discussion of the emerging synthetic science of palaetiology, or the historical sciences, in distinction to the universal sciences such as physics. Darwinism is the most obvious choice for the exemplar of a palaetiological science.

Human Behavior and Evolution Society

D. Formenti's links: Anthropology - a pretty comprehensive site of anthropological links.