General background reading
- Carroll, S.B. (2007) Endless Forms Most Beautiful: The new science of evo devo and the making of the animal kingdom. Phoenix: paperback.
- Coyne, J. (2009) Why Evolution is True. Oxford University Press.
- Davies, N. (2016) Cuckoo: Cheating by Nature. Bloomsbury (paperback).
- Shubin, N. (2008) Your Inner Fish. London: Penguin.
- Wilkinson, M. (2016) Restless Creatures: The story of life in ten movements. Icon books (paperback).
Some of the references used during the course
Behavioural Evolution
- Davies, N.B., Krebs, J.R. & West, S.A. (2012). An Introduction to Behavioural Ecology. 4th edition. Wiley-Blackwell.
- Manning, A. & Dawkins, M. S. (2012) An Introduction to Animal Behaviour, 6th Edition. Cambridge University Press.
Genes and Genomes
- Zimmer, C. & Emlen, D. J. (2013), Evolution. Making sense of life, Roberts & Co.
- Nicholas H. Barton, Derek E. G. Briggs, Jonathan A. Eisen, David B. Goldstein, Nipam H. Patel (2007) Evolution. Cold Spring Harbor Press. Chapters 15 and 16.
Vertebrate Evolutionary Biology
- Kardong, K.V. (2009). Vertebrates. Comparative Anatomy, Function, Evolution (5th Edition). McGraw Hill.
- Bonnan, M. F. (2016). The Bare Bones: An unconventional evolutionary history of the skeleton. Indiana University Press.
Adaptations
- Eisner T. (2003) For Love of Insects. The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA.
- Gullan, P.J. & Cranston, P.S. (2014) The Insects. An Outline of Entomology, 5th edition. WILEY Blackwell.