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. *expected date for lecture dicsussion of each reading   On reserve in the Reed College Library reading Briggs & Walters (1997) Plant Variaiton and Evolution, 3rd ed.   Judd et al. (2016) Plant Systematics: a phylogenetic approach, 4th ed.