Top 10 Most Influential Papers on Evolution

Have you ever wondered what are ~the~ must-read papers in the field of evolutionary biology? In this video, we do a top 10 countdown of what I think are the most influential and important papers in the field! Obviously, these are ~my~ picks, and if you have different ones, please share them in the comments! Honorable mentions: Gould, S. J., & Eldredge, N. (1977). Punctuated equilibria: the tempo and mode of evolution reconsidered. Paleobiology, 3(2), 115-151. Sagan, L. (1967). On the origin of mitosing cells. Journal of theoretical biology, 14(3), 225-IN6. Felsenstein, J. (1985). Phylogenies and the comparative method. The American Naturalist, 125(1), 1-15. Haldane, J. B. S. 1924. A mathematical theory of natural and artificial selection. Part I. Trans. Cambridge Phil. Soc. 23:19-41 Wright, S. (1943). Isolation by distance. Genetics, 28(2), 114 West-Eberhard, M. J. (2005). Developmental plasticity and the origin of species differences. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 102(suppl_1), 6543-6549 Woese, C. R., & Fox, G. E. (1977). Phylogenetic structure of the prokaryotic domain: the primary kingdoms. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 74(11), 5088-5090. Kubatko, L. S., & Degnan, J. H. (2007). Inconsistency of phylogenetic estimates from concatenated data under coalescence. Systematic biology, 56(1), 17-24.