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Introduction.. A Brief Timeline of Evolutionary Thought.. On the origin of species by means of natural selection (excerpt.. The descent of man and selection in relation to sex (excerpt.. A new factor in evolution.. The incidence of alkaptonuria : a study in chemical individuality.. Mendelian proportions in a mixed population.. Sex limited inheritance in Drosophila.. Artificial transmutation of the gene.. The genetical theory of natural selection : a review.. A critique of the species concept in biology.. Genetic control of biochemical reactions in Neurospora.. The species concept.. Molecular structure of nucleic acids : a structure for deoxyribose nucleic acid.. Hybridization as an evolutionary stimulus.. An experimental study of interaction between genetic drift and natural selection.. An equilibrium theory of insular zoogeography.. The genetical evolution of social behavior. 1.. Butterflies and plants : a study in coevolution.. A molecular approach to the study of genic heterozygosity in natural populations. 2, Amount of variation and degree of heterozygosity in natural populations of Drosophila pseudoobscura.. Construction of phylogenetic trees.. Gene regulation for higher cells : a theory.. Protein polymorphism as a phase of molecular evolution.. Punctuated equilibria : an alternative to phyletic gradualism.. Nothing in biology makes sense except in the light of evolution.. The logic of animal conflict.. Parent-offspring conflict.. Evolution at two levels in humans and chimpanzees.. Evolution and tinkering.. Phylogenetic structure of the prokaryotic domain : the primary kingdoms.. Mitochondrial DNA clones and matriarchal phylogeny within and among geographic populations of the pocket gopher, Geomys pinetis.. The spandrels of San Marco and the Panglossian paradigm : a critique of the adaptationist programme.. Is a new evolutionary synthesis necessary?

Biological classification : toward a synthesis of opposing methodologies.. Sexual selection, social competition, and speciation.. The significance of responses of the genome to challenge.. On the virtues and pitfalls of the molecular evolutionary clock.. Intraspecific phylogeography : the mitochondrial DNA bridge between population genetics and systematics.. The evolution of sex and recombination.. Experimental phylogenetics : generation of a known phylogeny.. Gaia, nature worship and biocentric fallacies.. Homeotic genes and the evolution of arthropods and chordates.. Transposable elements as sources of variation in animals and plants.. The chimeric eukaryote : origin of the nucleus from the karyomastigont in amitochondriate protists.. The evolutionary fate and consequences of duplicate genes.. Ecology and the origin of species.. Microbial minimalism: genome reduction in bacteria pathogens.. Unpredictable evolution in a 30-year study of Darwin's finches.. Genetics and the making of Homo sapiens.. Evolution experiments with microorganisms: the dynamics and genetic bases of adaptation.. Epilogue. Science and the Public.. Index.. Color illustrations follow the index

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