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Provine = Provine, W. B. 1971. The Origins of Theoretical Population genetics. University of Chicago Press, Chicago.
Week 1:Provine, Chapter 1: Darwin's theory of natural selection: The reaction.
Geison, G. L. 1969. Darwin and heredity: the evolution of his hypothesis of pangenesis. Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences 24:375-411.
Week 2:Darwin, C. 1868a. Chapter 12: Inheritance. The variation of plants and animals under domestication. Orange Judd, New York.
Darwin, C. 1868b. Chapter 27: Provisional hypothesis of pangenesis. The variation of plants and animals under domestication. Orange Judd, New York.
Week 3:Mendel, G. 1865. Experiments on plant hybrids. Pp. 1-48 in C. Stern and E. R. Sherwood, eds. The Origin of Genetics: A Mendel Source Book. W. H. Freeman and Company, San Francsico.
Week 4:Provine, Chapter 2: Background to the conflict between Mendelians and Biometricians
Week 5:Galton, F. 1889. Natural Inheritance. Macmillon, London.
Week 6:de Vries, H. 1910. The Mutation Theory. Open Court, Chicago.
Week 7:Provine, Chapter 3: The conflict between Mendelians and Biometricians
Week 8:Weldon, W. F. R. 1892. Certain correlated variations in Crangon vulgaris. Proceedings of the Royal Society 51:2-21.
Weldon, W. F. R. 1893. On certain correlated variations in Carcinus moenas. Proceedings of the Royal Society 54:318-329.
Weldon, W. R. f. 1895a. An attempt to measure the death-rate due to the selective destruction of Carcinus moensa with respect to a particular dimension. Proceedings of the Royal Society 57:360-379.
Week 9:Weldon, W. R. F. 1895b. Remarks on variation in animals and plants. Proceedings of the Royal Society 57:379-382.
Pearson, K. 1893. Contributions to the mathematical theory of evolution. Proceedings of the Royal Society 54:329-333.
Week 10:Bateson, W. 1902. Mendel's Principles of Heredity: A Defense. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.
Week 11:Yule, G. U. 1902. Mendel's laws and their probable relations to intr-racial heredity. New Phytologist 1:193-207, 222-238.
Yule, G. U. 1907. On the theory of inheritance of quantitative compound characters on the basis of Mendel's laws--A preliminary note. Pp. 140-142.
Report of the Third International Conference on Genetics. Spottinswoode, London.East, E. M. 1910.
A Mendelian interpretation of variation that is apparently continuous. American Naturalist 44
Week 12:Provine, Chapter 4: Darwinian Selection: The controversy
Week 13:Johannsen, W. 1903. Ueber Erlichkeit in Populationen und in Reinen Linien in P. t. b. H. G. a. E. Putschar, ed. Selected readings in biology for natural sciences. University of Chicago Press, 1955, Chicago.
Yule, G. U. 1903. Professor Johannsen's experiments in heredity. New Phytologist 2:235-242.
Morgan, T. H. 1916. A Critique of the Theory of Evolution. Princeton University Press, Princeton.
Week 14:Jennings, H. S. 1910. Experimental evidence on the effectiveness of selection. American Naturalist 44
Castle, W. E., and J. C. Phillips. 1914. Piebald rats and selection. Carnegie Institution of Washington Publication 195
Castle, W. E. 1919. Piebald rats and selection, a correction. American Naturalist 53:370-376.
Week 15:Provine, Chapter 5: Population genetics: The synthesis of Mendelism, Darwinism, and Biometry