Project SherlockEst. Knowledge

Book

1942

Systematics and the Origin of Species

Ernst Mayr

Defines species by reproductive isolation rather than morphology, and argues geographic isolation of populations is the ordinary route to a new one.

No free copy is linked yet — expect to buy or borrow this one elsewhere.

Read these first

Not a difficulty warning — a route. These are in the library too.

Evolution in Mendelian PopulationsSewall Wright, 1931Shows that in small populations random sampling of gametes can shift allele frequencies independently of selection, and proposes that drift and selection interact across subdivided populations.

Groundwork for

Works in the library that name this one as a prerequisite.

Evo-Devo and an Expanding Evolutionary Synthesis: A Genetic Theory of Morphological EvolutionSean B. Carroll, 2008Argues that changes in the regulation of a small toolkit of developmental genes, not new genes themselves, explain most morphological evolution between animal body plans.

Filed under Evolutionary Biology in Biology.