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Week 1 Readings
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Interesting Reads

Classical Biogeography: Early Perspectives

Humboldt's Gift - A Book Review in The New Yorker

Who Measures the World? Alexander von Humboldt's Chimborazo Climb in the Literary Imagination - The German Quarterly

Darwin On the Origin of Species - A Book Review by Asa Gray in The Atlantic Magazine (1860)

How Charles Darwin Seduced Asa Gray - WIRED

He Helped Discover Evolution, And Then Became Extinct - NPR

Sven Ekman: On the 130th Anniversary of His Birth - A Short Biography in the Russian Journal of Marine Biology

The Making of a Theory: Darwin, Wallace, and Natural Selection — HHMI BioInteractive Video
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Who's downloading pirated papers? Everyone - Science article about Sci-Hub repository

Earth History, Vicariance, and Dispersal​

Geologic Change Along the Big Sur Coastline - Geotripper

The Really Big One - The New Yorker

Pleistocene Glacial Refugia Across the Appalachian Mountains and Coastal Plain in the Millipede genus Narceus: Evidence from Population Genetic, Phylogeographic, and Paleoclimatic data - BMC Evolutionary Biology

The First Stage of Speciation as Seen in Organisms Separated by the Isthmus of Panama - Endless Forms: Species and Speciation

Species Ranges

Grinnell Resurvey Project - UC Berkeley

Diversity and the Coevolution of Competitors, or the Ghost of Competition Past - Oikos


Finding Floating Forests: It Takes an Online Village to Map Massive Kelp - NASA

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Ghosts of Geography - Per Square Mile

Population Ecology of Some Warblers of Northeastern Coniferous Forests - Ecology
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The Influence of Interspecific Competition and Other Factors on the Distribution of the Barnacle Chthamalus Stellatus - Ecology

An interview with Paul S. Martin - The American Scientist

​Pleistocene Re-wilding - Nature 

Marine Defaunation: Animal Loss in the Global Ocean - Science


How humans drive speciation as well as extinction - Proceedings of the Royal Society B

Timing and Causes of Mid-Holocene Mammoth Extinction on St. Paul Island, Alaska - PNAS


A Revolution in Biogeographical Methods

Evolution in Action: Ring Species - Youtube

Evolution, but different: Adventures of a Darwin-doubting botanist -
Salon
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Biogeography Off the Tracks - Systematic Biology

The Surprising Closest Relative of the Huge Elephant Birds - National Geographic

Independent Origins of  New Zealand Moas and Kiwis - PNAS

Diversification -or- Why are there so many species?

David M. Raup, Who Transformed Field of Paleontology, Dies at 82 - New York Times

Phanerozoic Marine Diversity and the Fossil Record - Nature

Evolution in the Tropics - American Scientist


Carl Sagan Extradimensional Beings - Youtube

The Importance of Islands – Islands as Natural Laboratories

​Island Biogeography and the Channel Islands - California Channel Islands

Island Biogeography in the 1960's - Princeton


Mangrove Melody - ECOmotion Studios

Experimental Zoogeography of Islands: The Colonization of Empty Islands - Ecology