The Modern Synthesis

Readings from:
Theodosius Dobzhansky
Sir Ronald Aylmer Fisher
John Burdon Sanderson Haldane
Julian Huxley
Ernst Mayr
George Gaylord Simpson
George Ledyard Stebbins, Jr.
Sewall Wright

Here are the readings for this quarter's EvoSyst meetings on the Modern Synthesis.
Because there is no set schedule as of this writing, readings are grouped by author.
Enjoy, and remember that we meet on Fridays at 1:30.

Theodosius Dobzhansky (1900-1975)

Dobzhansky, Th. 1937. Genetics and the Origin of Species. Columbia University Press, New York. (3rd edition, 1951)
Preface to the 3rd edition
Chapter 6: Race Formation
Chapter 9: Species as Natural Units

Sir Ronald Aylmer Fisher (1890-1962)

Fisher, R. A. 1930. The Genetical Theory of Natural Selection. Clarendon Press, Oxford. (second revised edition, Dover, New York 1958)
Chapter 1: The Nature of Inheritance
Chapter 6: Sexual Reproduction and Sexual Selection

John Burdon Sanderson Haldane (1892-1964)

Haldane, J.B.S. 1932. The Causes of Evolution. Macmillan, London.

A Mathematical Theory of Natural and Artificial Selection.
1933. The part played by recurrent mutation in evolution. American Naturalist 67: 5-19.

Julian Huxley (1887-1975)

Huxley, J. 1942. Evolution: The Modern Synthesis. George Allen and Unwin, London. (reprinted with new Introduction, Science Editions, 1964)
Introduction
Chapter 5, Section 4: Clines
Chapter 7, Section 3: Modes of Speciation
Chapter 8, Section 6: The Origins of Adaptations: The Inadequacy of Lamarckism

Ernst Mayr (1904-2005)

Mayr, E. 1942. Systematics and the Origin of Species. Columbia University Press, New York. (reprinted, Dover Publications, 1964)
Introduction (by Dobzhansky)
Chapter 5: Species Concepts
Chapter 7: The Species in Evolution

George Gaylord Simpson (1902-1984)

Simpson, G. G. 1944. Tempo and Mode in Evolution. Columbia University Press, New York.
Simpson, G. G. 1953. The Major Features of Evolution. Simon and Schuster, 1953.
Chapter 5: Population and Selection

George Ledyard Stebbins, Jr. (1906-2000)

Stebbins, G. L. 1950. Variation and Evolution in Higher Plants. Columbia University Press, New York.
Chapter 7: Hybridization and its Effects

Sewall Wright (1889-1988)

1931. Statistical theory of evolution. Journal of the American Statistical Association 26 (Supplement): 201-208.
1931. Evolution in Mendelian populations. Genetics 16: 97-159.
Wright, S. 1932. The roles of mutation, inbreeding, crossbreeding, and selection in evolution. Proceedings of the 6th International Congress of Genetics, Vol. 1, pp. 356-366.