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BL 263H Seminar
Books to be Purchased by Students
(in addition to lab books)
Barnes, J. 2000. Aristotle, A Very Short Introduction.
Oxford: Oxford University Press. 160p.
Endersby, J. 2007. A Guinea Pig's History of Biology.
Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. 499p.
Readings for Each
Week
Seminar 1
IN-CLASS HANDOUT - pp. 58-62 from Haldane, J.B.S. 1949. What is Life?
London: Acuin Press. as reprinted on pp. 67-69 in Ruse, M. 2007.
Philosophy of Biology, Second Edition. New York: Prometheus Books.
 Seminar 2
(Changed due to book availability.)
ENTRY SLIP READING - pp. 1-28 (Chapter 1, Equus quagga and
Lord Morton's Mare) from Endersby, J. 2007. A Guinea Pig's History of
Biology. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
(students should own this book) - swapped with Sem. 3
 Seminar 3
(Changed due to book availability.)
ENTRY SLIP READINGS - pp. 1-38, 92-115 (136-141 optional but
recommended) from Barnes, J. 2000. Aristotle, A
Very Short Introduction. Oxford: Oxford University Press. (students
should own this book) - swapped with Sem. 2
Seminar 4
 ENTRY
SLIP READING -
Connell, J.H. 1961. The influence of interspecific competition and other
factors on the distribution and abundance of the barnacle Chthalamus
stellatus. Ecology 42(4): 710-723. (Obtain from link
below.)
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paper on barnacles for
Entry Slip due in Seminar 4 (Weds.).
 Seminar 5
ENTRY SLIP READING -
pp. 29-60 (Chapter 2, Passiflora gracilis:
Inside Darwin's greenhouse) from Endersby, J. 2007. A Guinea Pig's
History of Biology. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
(students should own this book)
Seminar 6
 ENTRY SLIP READINGS
1. pp. 61-94 (Chapter 3, Homo sapiens:
Francis Galton's fairground attraction) from Endersby, J. 2007. A
Guinea Pig's History of Biology. Cambridge, MA: Harvard
University Press. (students should own this book) &
2. pp. 237-251 (excerpt) Darwin, Charles E. 1871. The Descent of
Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex, 1st Edition. London: John
Murray. Access this work via
http://darwin-online.org.uk/EditorialIntroductions/Freeman_TheDescentofMan.html
(Scroll down and select Volume 1 "Text & image" for the first edition.
The text will appear in the left window.)
 Seminar 7
ENTRY SLIP READING - Gould, S.J. and R.C.
Lewontin. 1979. The spandrels of San Marco and the Panglossian paradigm:
A critique of the adaptationist programme. Proceedings Of The Royal
Society of London, Series B, Vol. 205, No. 1161, Pp. 581-598.
(Students should use one of the links
below to read and/or print a copy. If one link doesn't work, try
another.)
http://www.life.uiuc.edu/ib/443/Gould%20&%20Lewontin.pdf
(If this link works, it's the best version.)
http://www2.hawaii.edu/~khayes/Journal_Club/fall2006/Gould_&_Lewontin_1979.pdf
http://ethomas.web.wesleyan.edu/wescourses/2004s/ees227/01/spandrels.html
http://faculty.washington.edu/lynnhank/GouldLewontin.pdf
Seminar 8
NO ENTRY SLIP READING - Go to class in the
LABORATORY ROOM, SCI 206.
 Seminar 9
ENTRY SLIP READING -
Dobzhansky, T. & O. Pavlovsky. 1957. An experimental study of
interaction between genetic drift and natural selection. Evolution
11: 311-319. (Students should use one of the links
below to read and/or print a copy. If one link doesn't work, try
another.)
http://www.blackwellpublishing.com/ridley/classictexts/dobzpav.pdf
http://www2.hawaii.edu/~khayes/Journal_Club/fall2006/Dobzhansky_&_Pavlovsky_1957_Evol.pdf
 Seminar 10
ENTRY SLIP READINGS -
1. Fleming, A. 1929. On the antimicrobial action of cultures of a
Penicillium, with special reference to their use in the isolation
of B. influenzae. Journal of Experimental Pathology 10:
226-236.
2. Chain, E., H.W. Florey, A.D. Gardner, N.G. Heatley, M.A.
Jennings, J. Orr-Ewing, and A.G. Saunders. 1940. Penicillin as a
chemotherapeutic agent. Lancet ii: 226-228.
3. Abraham, E.P. and E. Chain. 1940. An enzyme from bacteria able
to destroy penicillin. Nature 146: 837.
Download in a combined 3-paper file
here
Seminar 11
 ENTRY SLIP READING -
Walliker, D., P. Hunt, & H. Babiker. 2005. Fitness of drug-resistant
malaria parasites. Acta Tropica 94(2005): 251-259.
Download here.
Seminar 12
ENTRY SLIP READING - pp. 128-169 (Chapter 5, Oenothera
lamarckiana: Hugo de Vries led up the primrose path) from Endersby, J.
2007. A Guinea Pig's History of Biology. Cambridge, MA:
Harvard University Press. (students should own this book)
 Seminar 13
ENTRY SLIP READING - pp. 170-208 (Chapter 6, Drosophila
melanogaster: Bananas, bottles, and Bolsheviks) from Endersby, J.
2007. A Guinea Pig's History of Biology. Cambridge, MA:
Harvard University Press. (students should own this book)
Seminar 14
 ENTRY SLIP READING - pp. 411-432 (Chapter 12, OncoMouse Ò:
Enginerring organisms) from Endersby, J. 2007. A Guinea Pig's History
of Biology. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
(students should own this book)
11/01/2009
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