Readings:   Spring 2026

Reading will be available from either the library's ejournals collection (readings linked in the table below) or PDF files posted to the Shared Google Drive for the course. 

For ejournal access from off-campus, you may need to set up the Reed proxy - more info here.

The Reed library also has a guide for the LibKey Nomad web-browser-plugin; this plugin can help ensure you have access to Reed library resources when you are not beginning your resource acquisition from the Reed Library databases.


Date* Location Reading

Jan 28

etext, website

for review: Clark et al. 2018. Biology, 2e. OpenStax. Chs. 19.1 & 19.2
Nature Education's Scitable website has brief summaries of the Hardy-Weinberg Principle and the evolutionary forces of Natural Selection, Genetic Drift & Gene Flow.
Jan 30 ejournals Rieseberg, LH & JH Willis. 2007. Plant speciation. Science 317: 910-914.
Feb 4 ejournals Mayr, E. 1992. A local flora and the biological species concept. American Journal of Botany 79: 222-238. [focus on Part B, pp. 231-236]

Knapp, S. 2008.  Species concepts and floras: what are species for?  Biological Journal of the Linnean Society  95: 17-25
for lab weeks 2-5 ejournals Baum, et al. 2005. The tree-thinking challenge. Science 310: 979-980.
Feb 16
ejournals

Widmer, A, C Lexer, & S Cozzolino. 2009. Evolution of reproductive isolation in plants. Heredity 102: 31-38.
Feb 20
ejournals

Chari, J, & P Wilson. 2001. Factors limiting hybridization between Penstemon spectabilis and Penstemon centranthifolius. Canadian Journal of Botany 79: 1439–1448.
Mar 4
ejournals

McNeilly, T.  1967.  Evolution in closely adjacent plant populations.  III.  Agrostis tenuis on a small copper mine.  Heredity 23: 99-108

Savolainen, V, M Anstett, C Lexer, I Hutton, JJ Clarkson, MV Norup, MP Powell, D Springate, N Salamin, and WJ Baker. 2006. Sympatric speciation in palms on an oceanic island. Nature 441: 210-213.
Mar 18
ejournals

Goulet, BE, F Roda, & R Hopkins.  2017.  Hybridization in plants: old ideas, new techniques.  Plant Physiology 173: 65-78.
Mar 30
ejournals

Ramsey, J, & TS Ramsey. 2014. Ecological studies of polyploidy in the 100 years following its discovery. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, B 369: 20130352.
Apr 8
etext

Clark et al. 2018. Biology, 2e.  OpenStax text.   Chapter 25: Seedless plants. and Chapter 26: Seed plants.
Apr 10
ejournals

Niklas, K, B Tiffney, B. & A Knoll.  1983. . Patterns in vascular land plant diversification. Nature 303: 614–616.
Apr 15
ejournals

Linkies, A, K Graeber, C Knight, & G Leubner-Metzger. 2010.  The evolution of seeds.  New Phytologist 186: 817-831.

[Focus on sections I, V, VII]
Apr 22
ejournals

van der Kooi, C &  J Ollerton.  2020. The origins of flowering plants and pollinators.  Science 368: 1306-1308.

Friedman, WE, and SK Floyd. 2001. Perspective: The origin of flowering plants and their reproductive biology - A tale of two phylogenies. Evolution 55: 217-231.

*expected date for lecture dicsussion of each reading

 

On reserve in the Reed College Library

Book cover

reading

Briggs & Walters (1997) Plant Variaiton and Evolution, 3rd ed.


  Book cover

Judd et al. (2016) Plant Systematics: a phylogenetic approach, 4th ed.