Library Assignment: Papers on Evolution (15 points) (rev. Dec 2010)
Your assignment today is to go to the CSUB Library (or go on-line) and locate three
articles that are concerned with animal evolution (see Hickman et al. 2011: 10-132).
Obviously to complete this assignment you must know what animals and evolution are.
Survey Hickman et al. (2011: 247-646) and look inside its front cover before you start.
One article must deal with an arthropod, another with mollusks, nematodes,
cnidarians, or annelids and the third with another major clade not already used (e.g.
echinoderms or chordates). The articles must come from three different journals and
be recorded using the format of the examples that follow. This is the format used in
“Format for Laboratory Reports” accessible through the web site. Two of the articles
must contain an abstract.
Snodgrass, J.W., J.W. Ackerman, A.L. Bryan Jr., and J.Burger. 1999. Influence of
hydroperiod, isolation, and heterospecifics on the distribution of aquatic
salamanders (Siren and Amphiuma) among depression wetlands. Copeia 1999(1):
107-113.
Forey, P. and P. Janvier. 1994. Evolution of the early vertebrates. American Scientist
82 (6): 554-565.
Farrell, B. D. 1998. “Inordinate fondness” explained: why are there so many beetles?
Science 291: 555-559.
Nielsen, C. 1994. Larval and adult characteristics in animal phylogeny. American
Zoologist 34 (4): 492-501.
Note that the words animal and evolution need not appear in the title. To answer # 4 of
your assignment (below), it is required that you go through the contents section of one of
the following printed journal volumes available on the second floor of the Stiern Library
rather than completing a computer search: American Scientist, Bulletin of the Southern
California Academy of Sciences, California Fish and Game, Evolution, Nature, Journal
of Morphology, Science, Scientific American, Southwestern Naturalist, and Proceedings
of the National Academy of Sciences. This is not an exhaustive list.
Library Assignment
Name______________________
Type your answers on a separate page. You do not need to repeat the question but to
just use the appropriate number.
Citations:
1: Article on arthropod evolution:
2. Article on mollusk, nematod, cnidarian, or annelid evolution:
3. Article on the evolution of a third animal group (clade) exclusive of #1 or #2:
4. Cite the most interesting paper you came across independent of the assignment (it can
be on any topic in science):
Questions to answer.
5. Using your own words define an animal:
6. Using your own words define biological evolution:
7. List the common names of six arthropods, not including insects (see Hickman et al.
2011: 405-471).
8. List three books (authors and titles) from the Bonus Reading list that you might read:
9. Select one of your three articles to answer the following:
Article number (1, 2 or 3?)
. Which group or groups of animals does this
article deal with? What hypothesis was being tested or why the study was undertaken?
You will share your findings with the entire the class during the next lab meeting.