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>Publications on Darwin and Evolution


1. Selected publications on evolutionary topics:

Kleindorfer, Sonia, Sulloway, Frank J., and O'Connor, Jody, "Mixed Species Nesting Associations in Darwin's Tree Finches: Nesting Pattern Predicts Predation Outcome."  Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, 98 (2009): 313-324.

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Sulloway, Frank J., "Why Darwin Rejected Intelligent Design."  Journal of Biosciences, 34 (2009): 173-183. 

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Sonia Kleindorfer, Thomas W. Chapman, Hans Winkler, and Frank J. Sulloway.  “Adaptive Divergence in Continuous Populations of Darwin’s Small Ground Finch (Geospiza fuliginosa).”  Evolutionary Ecology Research, 8 (2006): 357-72.

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In press.  Jody O'Connor, Frank J. Sulloway, Jeremy Robertson, and Sonia Kleindorfer, "Philornis downsi parasitism is endangering Darwin's Medium Tree Finch."  Biodiversity and Conservation.

Under review.  Frank J. Sulloway and Sonia Kleindorfer, "Selection along a clinal gradient: Evidence for adaptive divergence in Darwin’s Small Ground Finch (Geospiza fuliginosa)."

Under review.  Jody O'Connor, Sonia Kleindorfer, and Frank J. Sulloway, "Avian population survey in the Floreana highlands: Is Darwin's medium tree finch declining in remnant patches of Scalesia forest?"

Under review,  Diane Colombelli-Négrel, Robertson, Jeremy, Sulloway, Frank J., and Kleindorfer, Sonia. "Extended parental care of fledglings: Parent birds adjust anti-predator responses according to predator type and distance."


  

                             

"Surviving the Galápagos: A Letter from the Field."  Brick, 77 (2006):72-82.

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"Is Lonesome George Really Lonesome?"  eSkeptic, 28 July 2006:

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                                                                                                (Photograph by Eric Rorer)

 

2. Selected publications on the life and theories of Charles Darwin:

"Tantalizing Tortoises and the Darwin-Galápagos Legend."  Journal of the History of Biology, 42 (2009): 3-31. 

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"The Evolution of Charles Darwin."  Smithsonian, December, 2005, pp. 58-69.

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"Geographic Isolation in Darwin's Thinking: The Vicissitudes of a Crucial Idea." Studies in the History of Biology, 3 (1979): 23-65.

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"Darwin and His Finches: The Evolution of a Legend." Journal of the History of Biology, 15 (1982):1-53.

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 "Darwin's Conversion: The Beagle Voyage and Its Aftermath." Journal of the History of Biology, 15 (1982):325-96. 

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1982c The Beagle Collections of Darwin's Finches (Geospizinae).  Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Zoology Series, 43, no. 2 (46 pp.).

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1983b "The Legend of Darwin's Finches." Nature, 303:372.

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"Darwin and the Galapagos." Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, 21 (1984):29-59.

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"Darwin's Early Intellectual Development: An Overview of the Beagle Voyage." In The Darwinian Heritage, pp. 121-154. David Kohn, ed. (Princeton: Princeton University Press in association with Nova Pacifica, 1985).

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"Darwin's 'Dogged' Genius: His Galapagos Visit in Retrospect."  Noticias de Galapagos (1985), no. 42, pp. 7-14.

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"Darwin and the Galapagos: Three Myths," Oceanus, 30, no. 2 (1987):79-85.

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                               Galapagos hawk (Buteo galapagoensis), summit of Fernandina (March 1970)

In Darwin's Footsteps--a documentary film.  

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"Darwinian Psychobiography." Review of Charles Darwin: A New Life, by John Bowlby. New York Review of Books, 10 October 1991, pp. 29-32.

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"Darwinian Virtues." Review of The Origins of Virtue: Human Instincts and the Evolution of Cooperation, by Matt Ridley. New York Review of Books, 9 April 1998, pp. 34-40.

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"The Metaphor and the Rock." Review of Time's Arrow, Time's Cycle: Myth and Metaphor in the Discovery of Geological Time, by Stephen Jay Gould. New York Review of Books, 2 May 1987, pp. 37-40.

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Frank J. Sulloway, Ph.D.

 

 

 

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