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.
Macroevolution and Diversity
- Kardong, K.V. (2009). Vertebrates. Comparative Anatomy, Function, Evolution (5th Edition). McGraw Hill.
- Baum, D. A. & Smith, S. D. Tree Thinking: An Introduction to Phylogenetic Biology. (Roberts, 2012).
Adaptations
- Chapman, R.F. (2013) The Insects: structure and function. Cambridge University Press 5th Edition.
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Luo, Liqun. (2020) Principles of Neurobiology, 2nd Edition. CRC Press, Taylor and Francis (*1st edition (2015) available as an ebook)
Titles marked with an * are available as ebooks via the iDiscover catalogue https://idiscover.lib.cam.ac.uk/