PBIO 250 Lecture Notes

James L. Reveal

Norton-Brown Herbarium, University of Maryland


Evolution, Variation and Biosystematics


Hybrid swam involving Aquilegia pubescens (l) and A. formosa (r)

Recent books on Plant Evolution
  1. Armstrong, J.A., J.M. Powell & A.J. Richards (eds.). 1982. Pollination and evolution. Sydney.
  2. Atchley, W.R. & D.S. Woodruff (eds.). 1981. Evolution and speciation: Essays in honor of M.J.D. White. Cambridge.
  3. Ayala, F.J. 1976. Molecular evolution. Sunderland.
  4. Barigozzi, C. (ed.). 1982. Mechanisms of speciation. New York.
  5. Brooks, D.R. & D.A. McLennan. 1991. Phylogeny, ecology and behavior. Chicago.
  6. -- & E.O. Wiley. 1986. Evolution as entropy: Towards a unified theory of biology. Chicago.
  7. Cracraft, J. & N. Eldredge (eds.). 1979. Phylogenetic analysis and paleontology. New York.
  8. Dover, G.A. & R.B. Flavell (eds.). 1982. Genome evolution. London.
  9. Eldredge, N. 1985. Time frames: The rethinking of Darwinian evolution and the theory of punctuated equilibria. New York.
  10. -- & J. Cracraft. 1980. Phylogenetic patterns and the evolutionary process: Method and theory in comparative biology. New York.
  11. Gottlieb, L.D. & S.K. Jain (eds.). 1988. Plant evolutionary biology. London.
  12. Gould, S.J. 1977. Ontogeny and phylogeny. Cambridge, Mass.
  13. Grant, V. 1975. Genetics of flowering plants. New York.
  14. --. 1977. Organismic evolution. San Francisco.
  15. --. 1981. Plant speciation, ed. 2. New York.
  16. --. 1985. The evolutionary process: A critical review of evolutionary theory. New York.
  17. --. 1991. The evolutionary process, ed. 2. New York.
  18. Hartl, D. 1987. Principles of population genetics, ed. 2. Sunderland.
  19. Iwatsuki, K., P.H. Raven & W.J. Bock (eds.). 1986. Modern aspects of species. Tokyo.
  20. Joysey, K.A. & A.E. Friday (eds.). 1982. Problems of phylogenetic reconstruction. London.
  21. Kauffman, S.A. 1993. The origins of order. Self-organization and selection in evolution. Oxford.
  22. Kimura, M. 1983. The neutral theory of molecular evolution. New York.
  23. Leaver, C.J. (ed.). 1980. Genome organization and expression in plants. New York.
  24. Levin, D.A. 1979. Hybridization: An evolutionary perspective. Stroudsburg.
  25. Levinton, J. 1988. Genetics, paleontology, and macroevolution. Cambridge.
  26. Lewis, W.H. (ed.). 1980. Polyploidy: Biological relevance. New York.
  27. McKelvy, B. 1982. Organizational systematics Taxonomy, evolution, classification. Berkeley.
  28. Maynard Smith, J. 1982. Evolution and the theory of games. Cambridge
  29. -- & E. Szathmáy. 1995. The major transistion of evolution. London
  30. Mayr, E. 1982. The growth of biological thought: Diversity, evolution, and inheritance. Cambridge, Mass.
  31. Nei, M. 1987. Molecular evolutionary genetics. New York.
  32. Niklas, K.J. 1994. Plant allometry: The scaling of form and function. Chicago.
  33. Otte, D. & J.A. Endler (eds.). 1989. Speciation and its consequences. Sunderland, MA.
  34. Pearson, L.C. 1995. The diversity and evolution of plants. Boca Raton.
  35. Pianka, E.R. 1988. Evolutionary ecology. 4th ed. New York.
  36. Raup, D.M. & D. Jablonski (eds.). 1986. Patterns and processes in the history of life. Berlin.
  37. Ridley, M. 1986. Evolution and classification: The reformation of cladism. London.
  38. Schoch, R.M. 1986. Phylogeny reconstruction in paleontology. New York.
  39. Solbrig, O.T. (ed.). 1980. Demography and evolution in plant populations. Oxford.
  40. Stanley, S.M. 1979. Macroevolution: Pattern and process. San Francisco.
  41. Stebbins, G.L. 1971. Chromosomal evolution in higher plants. London.
  42. --. 1974. Flowering plants: Evolution above the species level. Cambridge, Mass.
  43. --. 1977. Processes of organic evolution, ed. 3. Englewood Cliffs.
  44. Takhtajan, A.L. 1991. Evolutionary trends in flowering plants. New York.
  45. Wilson, E.O. 1988. Biodivesity. Washington, D.C.
  46. Yablokov, A.V. 1986. Phenetics: Evolution, population, trait. New York.

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