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.

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. *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.