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Appendix II: Further Reading

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The Paleontological Society Special Publications , Volume 9: Evolution: Investigating the Evidence , 1999 , pp. 401 - 402
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References

Further Reading Darwin and Darwinism

Dawkins, R. 1987. The Blind Watchmaker: Why the Evidence of Evolution Reveals a Universe Without Design. Norton, New York.Google Scholar
Ghiselin, M. T. 1969. The Triumph of the Darwinian Method. University of California Press, Berkeley.Google Scholar
Mayr, E. 1991. One long Argument. Harvard University Press, Cambridge.Google Scholar

Evolution

Avise, J. C. 1994. Molecular Markers, Natural History and Evolution. Chapman & Bowler.Google Scholar
Peter, J. 1989. Evolution: The History of an Idea, Revised Edition. University of California Press, Berkeley. [Scholarly history of the idea of evolution.] Google Scholar
Dobzhansky, Theodosius. 1973. Nothing in biology makes sense except in the light of evolution. American Biology Teacher. Vol. 35, pp. 125–129. [Summary statement about the unifying power of evolution for biology.] Google Scholar
Eldredge, Niles. 1985. Unfinished Synthesis: Biological Hierarchies and Modern Evolutionary Thought. Oxford University Press, New York. [A major example of the new scope now common in evolutionary thinking.] Google Scholar
Futuyma, Douglas J. 1986. Evolutionary Biology, Second Edition. Sinauer Associates, Sunderland, Massachusetts. [A major textbook on the subject.] Google Scholar
Ridley, M. 1996. Evolution, 2nd Edition. Blackwell, Boston. [An excellent modern comprehensive textbook.] Google Scholar
Skelton, P. 1993. Evolution: A Biological and Paleontological Approach. Addison-Wesley, Reading. 1064 p.Google Scholar

Human Evolution

Boyd, R., and Silk, J. B. 1999. How Humans Evolved. Norton, New York. p.674.Google Scholar
Conroy, G. C. 1997. Reconstructing Human Origins. Norton, New York. 557 p.Google Scholar
Day, M. H. 1986. Guide to Fossil Man. University of Chicago Press, Chicago. 432 p.Google Scholar
Jones, Steve, Martin, Robert and Pilbeam, David. 1992. The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Human Evolution. Cambridge University Press, New York City. [Authoritative compilation on many topics related to primates, humans, and origins of culture.] Google Scholar
Rasmussen, D. T. (Ed.). 1993. The Origin and Evolution of Humans and Humanness. Jones and Bartleff, Boston. 146 p.Google Scholar
Walker, A., and Shipman, P. 1996. The Wisdom of the Bones. Knopf, New York. 338 p.Google Scholar

Geologic Time and Stratigraphy

Gould, S.J. 1983. False premise, good Science. Natural History (October 1983), p 20–26 [on Kelvin and calibrating the age of the earth] Google Scholar
Heartland, W.E.B., Armstrong, C.O., Craig, E.L., Smith, G.A., Smith, D.G. 1990. A geologic Time Scale, 1989. Cambridge University Press.Google Scholar
Prothero, D.R., 1990. Interpreting the Stratigraphic Record. New York: Freeman.Google Scholar
Prothero, D.R., Schwab, F. 1996. Sedimentary Geology, An Introduction to Sedimentary Rocks and Stratigraphy. New York: Freeman.Google Scholar

Miscellaneous

Kidwell, S.M. and Flessa, K.W. 1995. The quality of the fossil record; populations, species, and communities. Annual Review Ecology Systematics 26: 269–299.Google Scholar
Sproul, Barbara C. 1979. Primal Myths: Creation Myths Around the World. 1991 reprint by Harper Collins, New York City. [Classic compilation of creation stories from many peoples and cultures.Google Scholar