Classic Texts
The Evolution website provides you with twenty classic texts from the history of evolutionary biology. While there has to be an arbitrary element in the choice of papers, we have aimed to include timeless classics: some of them are still the works that dominate modern discussions, others remain as implicit towering structures behind the activities of the 21st Century. All, however, are superb scientific papers, providing all sorts of intellectual pleasure for the reader.
- Cain, A.J. - The perfection of animals
- Carson, H.L. - "Chromosomal sequences and interisland colonizations in Hawaiian Drosophila"
- Coyne, J.A. & Orr, H. A - Patterns of speciation in Drosophila
- Darwin, C. - Chapter 3, "On the origin of species"
- Darwin, C. - Chapter 14, "On the origin of species"
- Dobzhansky, T. & Pavlovsky, O. - An experimental study of interaction between genetic drift and natural selection
- Eldredge, N. & Gould, S.J. - Punctuated equilibria: an alternative to phyletic gradualism
- Ehrlich, P.R. & Raven, P.H. - Butterflies and plants: a study in coevolution
- Ehrlich, P.R. & Raven, P.H. - Differentiation of populations
- Fisher, R.A. - Chapter 1, "The genetical theory of natural selection"
- Fisher, R.A. - Chapter 6, "The genetical theory of natural selection"
- Gould, S.J. & Lewontin, R.C. - The spandrels of San Marco and the Panglossian paradigm
- Haffer, J. - Speciation in Amazonian forest birds
- Haldane, J.B.S. - A mathematical theory of natural and artificial selection
- Haldane, J.B.S. - The cost of natural selection
- Kimura, M. - Evolutionary rate at the molecular level
- King, J.L. & Jukes, T.H. - Non-Darwinian evolution
- Mayr, E. - Change of genetic environment and evolution
- Stirton, R.A. - Observations on evolutionary rates in hypsodonty
- Wright, S. - "The roles of mutation, inbreeding, crossbreeding and selection in evolution"