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These are scans of papers in my personal reprint library that have been crucial for some of my work in evolutionary theory, or that of others. There are some miscellaneous other papers as well. They were published before the digital age, and are difficult to obtain. I have cited many of them in my own publications, so for those wishing to pursue these citations, I provide them here for scholary use (apologies for the underlining and notes). Click on the links to download the PDF file of the paper:

EVOLUTIONARY THEORY

Conrad, Michael. 1972. The importance of Molecular Hierarchy in Information Processing. Towards a Theoretical Biology 4: 222-228.
Conrad, Michael. 1990. The Geometry of Evolution. BioSystems 24: 61-81.
Eshel, Ilan and Marcus W. Feldman, 1970. On the Evolutionary Effect of Recombination. Theoretical Population Biology 1(1): 88-100.
Friedland, Shmuel and Karlin, Samuel. 1975. Some inequalities for the spectral radius of non-negative matrices and applications [10 MB]. Duke Mathematical Journal 42: 459-490.
Friedland, Shmuel. 1981. Convex spectral functions. Linear and Multilinear Algebra 9: 299-316.
Karlin, Samuel and James McGregor. 1972. Application of Method of Small Parameters to Multi-Niche Population Genetic Models. Theoretical Population Genetics 3: 186-209.
Karlin, Samuel and James McGregor. 1972. Polymorphisms for Genetic and Ecological Systems with Weak Coupling [10 MB]. Theoretical Population Genetics 3: 210-238.
Karlin, Samuel. 1976. Population subdivision and selection migration interaction [3MB]. In S. Karlin and E. Nevo, editors, Population Genetics and Ecology, pages 617--657. Academic Press, New York.
Karlin, Samuel and N. Richter-Dyn. 1976. Some Theoretical Analyses of Migration Selection Interaction in a Cline: A Generalized Two Range Environment [3MB]. In S. Karlin and E. Nevo, editors, Population Genetics and Ecology, pages 659--706. Academic Press, New York.
Karlin, Samuel. 1982. Classifications of Selection-Migration Structures and Conditions for a Protected Polymorphism [16 MB]. In M. K. Hecht, B. Wallace, & G. T. Prance (Eds.), Evolutionary Biology (Vol. 14, pp. 61-204). New York: Plenum.
A Corrigendum: I had typed the title into my BibTeX file as “Classification of Selection-Migration Structures and Conditions for a Protected Polymorphism” (instead of “Classifications”), and did not realize the error until several publications had already come out with it. But, as a Google Scholar search will affirm, I am in good company among those who have mutated the title thus. Hopefully, those looking for the paper under that title will find this page. The mutation constitutes a polymorphism at a frequency of 115/(289+ 115)= 0.28 (Google, as of Oct. 2011) or 27/(57+27)=0.32 (Google Scholar). The mutation was de novo in my case, since Sam himself had given me the reprint. But other cases might be replications within the citation chain. It might make an interesting evolutionary bibliographic study.
Levinger, B. W. 1970. An inequality for nonnegative matrices . Notices of the American Mathematical Society 17:260.
Lewontin, Richard. 1978. Adaptation. Scientific American 239 (3): 213-230.
Maynard Smith, John. 1962. The Limitations of Molecular Evolution. In The Scientist Speculates: An Anthology of Partly-baked Ideas, ed. Good, Irving John. Basic Books.
Moorhead, Paul S. and Kaplan, Martin M. editors. 1967. Mathematical Challenges to the Neo-Darwinian Interpretation of Evolution. Wistar Institute Monograph, Alan R. Liss, Inc., New York.
Price, G. R. 1970. Selection and covariance. Nature 227: 520-521.
Price, George R. 1972. Extension of covariance selection mathematics. Annals of Human Genetics 35: 485-489.
Wagner, Günter P. 1981. Evolution of evolutionary mechanisms: A workshop held at Berlepsch Castle (Göttingen, West Germany), November, 1980. Evolutionary Theory 5: 185-186.
It was through this report that I learned that there was a whole European “school” with interest in the evolution of evolvability and the problem I called “knowledge representation in the genome”. I found it when I was doing my initial literature search in 1982 on what if anything had been done in this field. Here I learned of the work of Rupert Riedl and Günter Wagner, which would lead to our collaboration.

HUMANITIES

Feuer, Lewis S. 1984. America's First Jewish Professor: James Joseph Sylvester at the University of Virginia. American Jewish Archives 36(2): 152-201.

Gamson, Zelda F., and Levin, Henry M.. 1984. Obstacles to the Survival of Democratic Workplaces. In Worker Cooperatives in America, Jackall and Levin, eds. University of California Press, Berkeley.

Goodwyn, Lawrence. 1971. Populist Dreams and Negro Rights: East Texas as a Case Study. The American Historical Review 76(5): 1435-1456.

Goodwyn, Lawrence. 1976. Democratic Promise: The Populist Moment in America, Oxford University Press, New York.

Goodwyn, Lawrence. 1978. A Critical Essay On Authorities. From Goodwyn, L. (1976) Democratic Promise: The Populist Moment in America, Oxford University Press, New York.

Ortega Y Gasset, Jose. 1940. Concord and Liberty. W. W. Norton and Company, Inc., New York.

Satin, Mark. New Options Newsletter. Directory of 28 selected issues from 1986 through 1991. Text-searchable PDFs. Provided here with permission from the author.

Original files at Mark Satin's website: New Options Newsletter: Transformational, Post-liberal, Prophetic. The back story on New Options is detailed in Chapter 7 of Satin's 2023 memoir, Up From Socialism My 60-Year Search for a Healing New Radical Politics.

Here is an intriguing essay by my late cousin, Prof. Harry Austryn Wolfson, the Nathan Littauer Professor of Hebrew Literature and Philosophy at Harvard, previously unavailable online:

Wolfson, Harry A. 1925. How the Jews will reclaim Jesus. Introductory Essay to Jesus as Others Saw Him: A Retrospect A.D. 54, by Joseph Jacobs, Bernard G. Richards Co., New York, 1925.

“Throughout the history of religious controversies between Christians and Jews in the Middle Ages Christianity was on the defensive. The Christians considered themselves called upon to prove the claims they made on behalf of Jesus by endeavouring to show that the vague prophetic promises were all fulfilled in Christ. The Jews had no counter claims to make; they simply refused to be impressed.”
“The sayings of Jesus ... will be considered as part of the maxims of the anonymous body of the wise, of blessed memory, who express the national genius of the people, not as those of an inspired individual to be worshipped and exalted above all others.”

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