Topic
Handouts
Reading
Week 1 (11-Jan-08)
Intro and Variation
Lecture slides
Lab handout (Assignment)
Brachiopod data

Cope, 1887, Evolution
Polly & Spang, 2002, History
Van Valen, 2005, Statistics

Week 2 (18-Jan-08)
Species and Speciation
Lecture slides
Assignment

De Queiroz, 2007, Species
Erwin & Anstey, 1995, Species
Gingerich, 1974, Species
Imbrie, 1955, Species
Simpson, 1951, Species

Week 3 (25-Jan-08)
Bootstrapping and similar tests, Geometric morphometric data
Lecture slides
Assignment
Brach photos

Efron & Tibshirani, 1986, Bootstrap
Richtsmeier et al. 2002, Morphometrics
Rohlf & Slice, 1990, Procrustes
Rohlf, 1993, PCA

Week 4 (1-Feb-08)
Morphospaces, disparity, and phenotypic diversification
Lecture slides
Assignment

**Erwin, 2007, Disparity
**Richtsmeier et al. 2002, Morphometrics
Foote, 1997, Disparity
Gerber et al., 2007, Ontogeny and disparity
Wills, 1998**, Cambrian disparity

Week 5 (8-Feb-08)
No meeting
   
Week 6 (15-Feb-08)
Phyletic evolution, tempo, mode
Assignment

Bookstein et al., 1978, Tempo and mode
**Gingerich, 2001, Rates of evolution
Gingerich, 1993, Quantification of evolutionary rates

Week 7 (22-Feb-08) More Phyletic evolution, tempo, mode

Slides
Assignment

Eldredge & Gould, 1972, Punc. Equilibrium
**Gould & Eldredge, 1977, Punc. Equil. Reconsidered

Week 8 (29-Feb-08) Phylogenetic tempo and mode, morphological modelling

Slides
Assignment

Bookstein, 1988, Random walks
Polly, 2004, Morph Modelling

Week 9 (7-Mar-08) Review and Synthesis

Slides
[No assignment]

 
Spring Break (14-Mar-08)
   
Week 10 (21 Mar 08) Ontogeny and Growth

Assignment
Age / Size Data

Goswami, 2006
Olson & Miller, 1951
LaBarbara, 1985
**Maynard Smith et al. 1985, Devl. Constr.
**Rudwick, 1968, Brach Growth
Pennington et al., 1999, Brach Development
Rice, 1998, shell coiling
Week 11 (28 Mar 08) Character-based phylogenetics:  parsimony cladistics, stratocladistics
  Eldredge & Cracraft, 1980, Cladograms
Patterson, 1977, Palaeo and Phylogeny
Fox et al, 1999, Stratocladistics
(Fox & Marcot, 2008, Stratocladistic software
Donoghue et al., 1989, Importance of fossils in phylogeny reconstruction )

Week 12 (4 Apr 08) Quantitative phylogenetics:  distance trees, stratophenetics, maximum-likelihood, and Bayesian techniques

Assignment

Felsenstein, 1981, evolutionary trees
Gingerich, 1979, Stratophenetics
Huelsenbeck & Rannala, 1997, ML and stratigraphy
Huelsenbeck, 2001, Bayesian

 

Week 13 (11 Apr 08) Phylogenetics and classification

 

De Queiroz and Gauthier, 1990, Phylogeny and classification
Forey, 2002, Phylocode: Pain, no Gain
Gingerich, 1979, Stratophenetics
Hull, 1979, Limits of Cladism

Week 14 (18 Apr 08)
Comparative phylogenetic and statistical methods
 

MacLeod, 2001, Phylogeny and quantitative analysis
Martins and Hansen, 1997, Phylogenies and the comparative method
Polly, 2001, Ancestral nodes and confidence intervals

Week 15 (25 Apr 08)
Biodiversity and extinction

Slides

Assignment

Van Valen, 1973, Red Queen
Raup, 1975, Survivorship and Van Valen's Law
Raup & Sepkoski, 1984, Periodicity in Extinction
Raup, 1985, Models of Cladogenesis
Alroy et al., 2001, Phanerozoic diversity

General Info

P. David Polly
513 Geol Sciences
pdpolly@indiana.edu

Syllabus
[pdf format]

R Functions
degrade()
disparity.univariate()
Diversity Functions
group.disparity()
groupdists()
individual.disparity()
longrandomwalk()
lri()
lriInt()
randomwalk()
read.tps()

Paleontology
Paleobiology: A Synthesis
The Paleobiology Database

R
A Short R Tutorial
Kickstarting R
Getting data from Microsoft to R

P. David Polly | Department of Geological Sciences | Indiana University | Copyright (c) 2008