Course Material
Items available in the Short Loan Collection

Additional Reading
Extra reading mentioned in the course guide

Related Web Sites
Web sites mentioned in the course guide

Back to Stage 1 Library Resources

There are a number of items available for BIOSCI 101 in the Short Loans Collection which is located on level 1 of the Kate Edger Information Commons.

To see the full list of items, go to the  Course Materials  search page on Voyager, scroll down the alphabetical list of courses to find the entry for BIOSC101 and click on the Search tab.

The items are in alphabetical order by title and may include books and individual articles. 

Additional Reading  

• The links below will either take you to directly to journal articles if they are available in an online journal, or you will be taken to the corresponding page in the Library Catalogue.  

• From the Catalogue record you will be able to work out whether the library has a print subscription to the Journal that the article appears in.  

• All Biological Sciences journals are housed on Level M of the General Library in the Science Serials area, all journals are shelved alphabetically by the Journal title. 

• In the journal references below the Journal title appears after the title of the article.

• Understanding your Reading List

Course readings may only be used for the University's educational purposes. You may print a copy for your own use, but you may not make a further copy for any other purpose. You may not copy or distribute any part of the reading to any other person. Failure to comply with these terms may expose you to legal action for copyright infringement and/or disciplinary action by the University.

From Lecture 2 : Evolution : Theory and Evidence

• Boag, P.T. and P.R. Grant. Intense Natural Selection in a Population of Darwin's Finches (Geospizinae) in the Galapagos. Science 214, 82-85, 1981.

From Lecture 5 : Evolution : Natural Selection

• Andersson, M. 1982. Female choice selects for extreme tail length in widowbird. Nature, 299: 818-820.

From Lecture 8 : Evolution : The Descent of Man

• Wilson, A.C. and R.L. Cann. The recent African genesis of humans, Scientific American, April, 68-73, 1992.

From Lecture 10 : Evolution : Chance and Necessity, current topics in evolutionary biology

• Alvarez, W. and F. Asaor, An extraterrestrial impact. Scientific American, Oct., 78-84, 1990.

• Vincs, Gail. Mass Extinctions. New Scientist (Inside Science), December 11, 1999.

• O'Brien, S.J., D.E. Wildt and M. Bush. The cheetah is an genetic peril. Scientific American, 254, 84., 1986.

From Lab 6 :  Evolution

• Gould, S. J., The evolution of life on earth. Scientific American ; v.271, no.4, 1994 (p.85-91)

• Grant, P. R., Natural selection and Dawin finches. Scientific American ; v.265, no.4, 1991 (p.82-7)

Related Web Sites  

From Lecture 11 : Genetics, Microbiology and Biotechnology : Genetically Engineered Food

• The Royal Commission on Genetic Modification News and useful reading.

• A Classic Chemistry Paper by Jan Ingenhousz (1730-1799) excerpts from Experiments upon Vegetables, Discovering Their great Power of purifying the Common Air in the Sun-shine, and of Injuring it in the Shade and at Night. To Which is Joined, A new Method of examining the accurate Degree of Salubrity of the Atmosphere.
• Information about Joseph Priestley, an early scientist.