Evolución, educación y divulgación científica

El número especial de la revista "Evolution: Education and Outreach" subtitulado "Transitional Fossils" puede desacargarse de modo gratuito de Internet. En esta oportunidad se presentan una gran cantidad de contribuciones de renombrados investigadores, con artículos de revisión relacionados con el origen de diversos grupos (moluscos, artrópodos, equinodermos y cordados), las principales transformaciones en la evolución de los vertebrados (origen de los tetrápodos, reptiles marinos, dinosaurios, aves, sinápsidos, cetáceos y otros mamíferos ungulados), artículos teóricos sobre evolución y comentarios sobre libros recientemente publicados.

Los artículos en versión pdf puede ser descargados directamente del presente índice:

1. Niles Eldredge and Gregory Eldredge, Editorial p.149

2. Niles Eldredge, A Question of Individuality: Charles Darwin, George Gaylord Simpson and Transitional Fossils p. 150-155

3. T. Ryan Gregory, Understanding Natural Selection: Essential Concepts and Common Misconceptions p. 156-175

4. Donald Ross Prothero, Introduction p. 176-177

5. Gregory D. Edgecombe, Palaeontological and Molecular Evidence Linking Arthropods, Onychophorans, and other Ecdysozoa p. 178-190

6. David R. Lindberg, Monoplacophorans and the Origin and Relationships of Mollusks p. 191- 203

7. Philip C. J. Donoghue and Mark A. Purnell, The Evolutionary Emergence of Vertebrates From Among Their Spineless Relatives p. 204-212

8. Jennifer A. Clack, The Fish–Tetrapod Transition: New Fossils and Interpretations p. 213-223

9. Ryosuke Motani, The Evolution of Marine Reptiles p. 224-235

10. James M. Clark and Xing Xu, Evolutionary Transitions Among Dinosaurs: Examples from the Jurassic of China p. 236-247

11. Luis M. Chiappe, Downsized Dinosaurs: The Evolutionary Transition to Modern Birds p. 248-256

12. Kenneth D. Angielczyk, Dimetrodon Is Not a Dinosaur: Using Tree Thinking to Understand the Ancient Relatives of Mammals and their Evolution p. 257-271

13. J. G. M. Thewissen, Lisa Noelle Cooper, John C. George and Sunil Bajpai, From Land to Water: the Origin of Whales, Dolphins, and Porpoises p. 272-288

14. Donald R. Prothero, Evolutionary Transitions in the Fossil Record of Terrestrial Hoofed Mammals p. 289-302

15. Anastasia Thanukos, A Name by Any Other Tree p. 303-309

16. Louise S. Mead, Transforming Our Thinking about Transitional Forms p. 310-314

17. Lara Eldredge, Access to Evolution p. 315-317

18. Sidney Horenstein, Paleontology and Evolution in the News p. 318-325

19. Adam M. Goldstein, The Charms of Nature: Darwin on Meaning and Value. Darwin Loves You: Natural Selection and the Re-enchantment of the World, by George Levine. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2006. pp. xxiii + 304, s/b $18.95 p.326-333

20. Joel Schwartz, Illuminating Charles Darwin’s Morality: Slavery, Humanity’s Origin and Unity, and Darwin’s Evolutionary Theory. Adrian Desmond and James Moore, Darwin’s Sacred Cause: How a Hatred of Slavery Shaped Darwin’s Views on Human Evolution. Boston & New York: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2009. Pp. xxi + 485. H/b $30.00 p. 334-337

21. Michael Gaspar, Your Inner Fish. Your Inner Fish: A Journey Into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body, by Neil Shubin. Pantheon Books, 2008, 229 pages p. 338-339