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1. Selected publications on evolutionary topics:


"Darwin and the Galapagos Giant Tortoises."  In Galapagos Giant Tortoises, pp. 83-95.  James P. Gibbs, Linda J. Cayot, and Washington Tapia A., eds.  London and SanDiego, CA: Academic Press, 2020.

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Sonia Kleindorfer, Georgina Custance, Katharina J. Peters, and Frank J. Sulloway. "Introduced parasite changes host phenotype, mating signal and hybridization risk: Philornis downsi effects on Darwin's finch song." Proceedings of the Royal Society B, 286 (2019): 20190461.

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Mikel M. Delgado, and Frank J. Sulloway, "Attributes of conscientiousness throughout the animal kingdom: An empirical and evolutionary overview." Psychological Bulletin, 143 (2017): 823-867.

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Frank J. Sulloway and Sonia Kleindorfer, "Naris deformation in Darwin's finches: Experimental and historical evidence for a post-1960s arrival of the parasite Philornis downsi." Global Ecology and Conservation,7 (2016):122-131.

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Sonia Kleindorfer, Katharina J. Peters, Leon Hohl, and Frank J. Sulloway, "Flight behavior of an introduced parasite affects its Galàpagos Islands hosts: Philornis downsi and Darwin's finches." In Judith Weiss and Daniel Sol, eds., Biological Invasions and Behaviour (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2016), pp. 158-179. 

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Frank J. Sulloway.   The mystery of the disappearing OpuntiaGalapagos Matters, Autumn/Winter 2015, pp. 8-9.

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Sonia Kleindorfer, Jody A. O'Connor, Rachael Y. Dudaniec, Steven A. Myers, Jeremy Robertson,
and Frank J. Sulloway, Species collapse via hybridization in Darwin's tree finches.  American Naturalist (2014), 183:325-341. 

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Frank J. and Sonia Kleindorfer. Adaptive divergence in Darwin's small ground finch (Geospiza fuliginosa): Divergent selection along a cline. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society. (2013), 110:45-59.

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Diane Colombelli-Négrel, Mark E. Hauber, Jeremy Robertson, Frank J. Sulloway, Herbert Hoi, Matteo Griggio, and Sonia Kleindorfer. Embryonic learning of vocal passwords in superb fairy-wrens reveals intruder cuckoo nestlings. Current Biology (2012), 22:2155-2160.

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Jody O'Connor, Frank J. Sulloway, and Sonia Kleindorfer. Avian population survey in the Floreana highlands: Is the Medium Tree Finch declining in remnant patches of Scalesia forest? Bird Conservation International (2010), 20:343-353. DOI 10.1017/S0959270910000195

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Jody A. O'Connor, Frank J. Sulloway, Jeremy Robertson, and Sonia Kleindorfer. Philornis downsi parasitism is the primary cause of nestling mortality in the critically endangered medium tree finch (Camarhynchus pauper). Biodiversity and Conservation, 19 (2010):853-866. DOI 10.1007/s10531-009-9740-1

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Diane Colombelli-Négrel, Jeremy Robertson, Frank J. Sulloway, and Sonia Kleindorfer. Extended parental care of fledglings: Parent birds adjust anti-predator response according to predator type and distance. Behaviour, 147 (2010):853-870.

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Kleindorfer, Sonia, Sulloway, Frank J., and O'Connor, Jody, "Mixed Species Nesting Associations in Darwin's Tree Finches: Nesting Pattern Predicts Predation Outcome."  Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, 98 (2009): 313-324.

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Sulloway, Frank J., "Why Darwin Rejected Intelligent Design."  Journal of Biosciences, 34 (2009): 173-183. 

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Sonia Kleindorfer, Thomas W. Chapman, Hans Winkler, and Frank J. Sulloway.  “Adaptive Divergence in Contiguous Populations of Darwin’s Small Ground Finch (Geospiza fuliginosa).”  Evolutionary Ecology Research, 8 (2006): 357-72.

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"Surviving the Galápagos: A Letter from the Field."  Brick, 77 (2006):72-82.

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"Is Lonesome George Really Lonesome?"  eSkeptic, 28 July 2006:

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                                                                                                (Photograph by Eric Rorer)

 

2. Selected publications on the life and theories of Charles Darwin:

Darwin and His Bears: How Darwin Bear and His Galápagos Islands Friends Inspired a Scientific Revolution. Revised edition, with a new Foreword by Michael Shermer. New York: Blast Books, 2021.

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Darwin and the Galapagos Giant Tortoises.  In Galapagos Giant Tortoises, pp. 83-95.  James P. Gibbs, Linda J. Cayot, and Washington Tapia A., eds.  London and SanDiego, CA: Academic Press, 2020.

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Darwin and His Bears: How Darwin Bear and His Galápagos Islands Friends Inspired a Scientific Revolution. Amsterdam: Rubinstein Publishing, 2019. Translations have appeared in Spanish and Dutch (also by Rubinstein Publishing, 2019).


"Tantalizing Tortoises and the Darwin-Galápagos Legend."  Journal of the History of Biology, 42 (2009): 3-31. 

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"The Evolution of Charles Darwin."  Smithsonian, December, 2005, pp. 58-69.

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"Geographic Isolation in Darwin's Thinking: The Vicissitudes of a Crucial Idea." Studies in the History of Biology, 3 (1979): 23-65.

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"Darwin and His Finches: The Evolution of a Legend." Journal of the History of Biology, 15 (1982):1-53.
Reprinted in Darwin’s Finches: Readings in the Evolution of a Scientific Paradigm, edited by Kathleen Donohue (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2011, pp. 55-97).

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 "Darwin's Conversion: The Beagle Voyage and Its Aftermath." Journal of the History of Biology, 15 (1982):325-96. 

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1982c The Beagle Collections of Darwin's Finches (Geospizinae).  Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Zoology Series, 43, no. 2 (46 pp.).

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1983b "The Legend of Darwin's Finches." Nature, 303:372.

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"Darwin and the Galapagos." Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, 21 (1984):29-59.

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"Darwin's Early Intellectual Development: An Overview of the Beagle Voyage." In The Darwinian Heritage, pp. 121-154. David Kohn, ed. (Princeton: Princeton University Press in association with Nova Pacifica, 1985).

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"Darwin's 'Dogged' Genius: His Galapagos Visit in Retrospect."  Noticias de Galapagos (1985), no. 42, pp. 7-14.

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"Darwin and the Galapagos: Three Myths," Oceanus, 30, no. 2 (1987):79-85.

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                               Galapagos hawk (Buteo galapagoensis), summit of Fernandina (March 1970)

 

 

In Darwin's Footsteps--a documentary film.  

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"Darwinian Psychobiography." Review of Charles Darwin: A New Life, by John Bowlby. New York Review of Books, 10 October 1991, pp. 29-32.

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"Darwinian Virtues." Review of The Origins of Virtue: Human Instincts and the Evolution of Cooperation, by Matt Ridley. New York Review of Books, 9 April 1998, pp. 34-40.

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"The Metaphor and the Rock." Review of Time's Arrow, Time's Cycle: Myth and Metaphor in the Discovery of Geological Time, by Stephen Jay Gould. New York Review of Books, 2 May 1987, pp. 37-40.

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