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A discussion of “The Salamander’s Tale” in Richard Dawkins’ and Yan Wong’s book The Ancestor’s Tale. All pictures are from Google.
“The Lava Lizard’s Tale”: youtu.be/fZTUbbNZffo
“Freshwater paths across the ocean: molecular phylogeny of the frog Ptychadena newtoni gives insights into amphibian colonization of oceanic islands”: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1365-2699.2006.01589.x
“Triadobatrachus massinoti, the earliest known lissamphibian (Vertebrata: Tetrapoda) re-examined by µCT scan, and the evolution of trunk length in batrachians”: pdfs.semanticscholar.org/5983/b4ebc439d8960f2aa3dcc8dc51bae40c8010.pdf
“Phylogenomics Reveals Ancient Gene Tree Discordance in the Amphibian Tree of Life”: academic.oup.com/sysbio/article-pdf/70/1/49/36029699/syaa034.pdf
“The Braincase of Eocaecilia micropodia (Lissamphibia, Gymnophiona) and the Origin of Caecilians”: journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0050743
Evolution: What the Fossils Say And Why It Matters: amazon.com/Evolution-What-Fossils-Say-Matters/dp/0231180640/ref=sr_1_1?crid=2C40RTSY3I7XI&keywords=evolution+what+the+fossils+say+and+why+it+matters&qid=1686350897&sprefix=evolution+what+the+fo%2Caps%2C187&sr=8-1
“Parsimony-based test for identifying changes in evolutionary trends for quantitative characters: implications for the origin of the amniotic egg”: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/cla.12371
“Phylogeny and evolutionary history of the amniote egg”: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdfdirect/10.1002/jmor.21380
“Asymmetric reproductive isolation between terminal forms of the salamander ring species Ensatina eschscholtzii revealed by fine-scale genetic analysis of a hybrid zone”: bmcecolevol.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/1471-2148-11-245
“Closing the ring: historical biogeography of the salamander ring species Ensatina eschscholtzii”: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1365-2699.2008.02052.x
Speciation: amazon.com/Speciation-Jerry-Coyne/dp/0878930892/ref=sr_1_1?crid=3FR7Q5B3CUT1X&keywords=speciation+coyne&qid=1686365278&sprefix=speciation+%2Caps%2C258&sr=8-1&ufe=app_do%3Aamzn1.fos.f5122f16-c3e8-4386-bf32-63e904010ad0
“Defining the speciation continuum”: academic.oup.com/evolut/article/75/6/1256/6881956
“The oak syngameon: more than the sum of its parts”: nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/nph.16091
“The Denisovan’s Tale”: youtu.be/z1v00v3roWM
“Do Dogs Produce Non-Dogs?”: youtu.be/lLyrVRfCgSM
A discussion of “The Salamander’s Tale” in Richard Dawkins’ and Yan Wong’s book The Ancestor’s Tale. All pictures are from Google.
“The Lava Lizard’s Tale”: youtu.be/fZTUbbNZffo
“Freshwater paths across the ocean: molecular phylogeny of the frog Ptychadena newtoni gives insights into amphibian colonization of oceanic islands”: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1365-2699.2006.01589.x
“Triadobatrachus massinoti, the earliest known lissamphibian (Vertebrata: Tetrapoda) re-examined by µCT scan, and the evolution of trunk length in batrachians”: pdfs.semanticscholar.org/5983/b4ebc439d8960f2aa3dcc8dc51bae40c8010.pdf
“Phylogenomics Reveals Ancient Gene Tree Discordance in the Amphibian Tree of Life”: academic.oup.com/sysbio/article-pdf/70/1/49/36029699/syaa034.pdf
“The Braincase of Eocaecilia micropodia (Lissamphibia, Gymnophiona) and the Origin of Caecilians”: journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0050743
Evolution: What the Fossils Say And Why It Matters: amazon.com/Evolution-What-Fossils-Say-Matters/dp/0231180640/ref=sr_1_1?crid=2C40RTSY3I7XI&keywords=evolution+what+the+fossils+say+and+why+it+matters&qid=1686350897&sprefix=evolution+what+the+fo%2Caps%2C187&sr=8-1
“Parsimony-based test for identifying changes in evolutionary trends for quantitative characters: implications for the origin of the amniotic egg”: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/cla.12371
“Phylogeny and evolutionary history of the amniote egg”: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdfdirect/10.1002/jmor.21380
“Asymmetric reproductive isolation between terminal forms of the salamander ring species Ensatina eschscholtzii revealed by fine-scale genetic analysis of a hybrid zone”: bmcecolevol.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/1471-2148-11-245
“Closing the ring: historical biogeography of the salamander ring species Ensatina eschscholtzii”: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1365-2699.2008.02052.x
Speciation: amazon.com/Speciation-Jerry-Coyne/dp/0878930892/ref=sr_1_1?crid=3FR7Q5B3CUT1X&keywords=speciation+coyne&qid=1686365278&sprefix=speciation+%2Caps%2C258&sr=8-1&ufe=app_do%3Aamzn1.fos.f5122f16-c3e8-4386-bf32-63e904010ad0
“Defining the speciation continuum”: academic.oup.com/evolut/article/75/6/1256/6881956
“The oak syngameon: more than the sum of its parts”: nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/nph.16091
“The Denisovan’s Tale”: youtu.be/z1v00v3roWM
“Do Dogs Produce Non-Dogs?”: youtu.be/lLyrVRfCgSM
