Final exam review sheet
Sargis 2002 - primate evolution
Whiten et al. 2005 - cultural norms in chimpanzees
Click below for powerpoint presentations:
frogs, wolves, platypus, learning, crocodiles, manta, fisheries

Listen to
Richard Prum and Ken Dial
Ken Dial’s
Univ of Montana flight lab
Listen to this podcast on
Mean and Lonely Things
TOL page on
amniotes
TOL page on
temporal fenestrae
Ohio DNR page on
turtles and lepidosaurs
Good pages on Ohio
salamanders and frogs
Listen to this
podcast on frogs for Monday
Amphibian
feeding and breathing
An excellent webpage on the
fishes of ohio
And some nice ecological information on FW fishes

Reading assignments
Phylogenetic systematics - read for 8/27
Origin of Chordates - posted in
eReserves read for 8/29 and 9/3
Rychel et al. (2005) and questions - due in lecture 9/5
Getting a Head - posted in
eReserves - read for 9/10
Fish with Fingers - posted in
eReserves - read for 10/1
Warkentin et al. (2006) - listen to this interview with her
Whitfield and Pierce (2005) - answers to questions due in lecture 10/31

Thought questions for Hsieh and Lauder (2004) - for lab this week
1. Does surface tension play a role in water-running ability among lizards?
2. What is the primary locomotor challenge when running on water?
3. How does size affect water running ability?
4. What types of morphological adaptations might basilisks have that
facilitate their water-running abilities?

Thought questions for The Thanksgiving Day Dinosaur - for lecture this week
1. A close evolutionary link between dinosaurs and birds has been proposed since the 1800s. What scientists have supported this view?
2. How does the morphology of the fossil species
Archaeopteryx support the link between dinosaurs and birds? Be ready to discuss some of the details of this anatomy.
3. What is the competing hypothesis for bird sister relationships proposed by Feduccia and Martin? What evidence do they use to support this view?
4.
Confusciusornis and Sinornis are two Cretaceous birds. What do each of these specimens suggest about the evolution of the bird body? Be ready to discuss specific examples of anatomy in these two species.
5. What went wrong with the publication of the fossil bird
Archaeoraptor?

We will discuss the
Origin of Flight section next week

Science literature resources
ISI citation database
Pubmed
Ohio Link Electronic Journal Center
BioMed Central
Public Library of Science
Biological Bulletin - articles older than 6 months are free access
Journal of Experimental Biology - articles older than 6 months are free access
Nature - full free access on campus
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Blogs and Podcasts
Quirks and quarks

Recommendations for further reading