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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. 

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Date* Location Reading

Jan 28

etext, website

for review:
Nature Education's Scitable website has brief summaries of the and the evolutionary forces of

Jan 30 ejournals Rieseberg, LH & JH Willis. 2007. Plant speciation.
Feb 4 ejournals Mayr, E. 1992. A local flora and the biological species concept. [focus on Part B, pp. 231-236]

Knapp, S. 2008.  Species concepts and floras: what are species for?    95: 17-25

for lab weeks 2-5 ejournals Baum, et al. 2005. The tree-thinking challenge.
Feb 16
ejournals

Widmer, A, C Lexer, & S Cozzolino. 2009. Evolution of reproductive isolation in plants.

Feb 20
ejournals

Chari, J, & P Wilson. 2001. Factors limiting hybridization between Penstemon spectabilis and Penstemon centranthifolius.

Mar 4
ejournals

McNeilly, T.  1967.  Evolution in closely adjacent plant populations.  III.  Agrostis tenuis on a small copper mine. 

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. .

Mar 18
ejournals

Goulet, BE, F Roda, & R Hopkins.  2017.  Hybridization in plants: old ideas, new techniques. 

Mar 30
ejournals

Ramsey, J, & TS Ramsey. 2014. Ecological studies of polyploidy in the 100 years following its discovery.

Apr 8
etext

Clark et al. 2018. Biology, 2e.  OpenStax text.   and .

Apr 10
ejournals

Niklas, K, B Tiffney, B. & A Knoll.  1983. . Patterns in vascular land plant diversification.

Apr 15
ejournals

Linkies, A, K Graeber, C Knight, & G Leubner-Metzger. 2010.  The evolution of seeds. 

[Focus on sections I, V, VII]

*expected date for lecture dicsussion of each reading

 

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.