SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

2009 Reiss, J. O. Not by Design : Retiring Darwin's Watchmaker

More than two centuries ago, William Paley introduced his famous metaphor of the universe as a watch made by the Creator. For Paley, the exquisite structure of the universe necessitated a designer. Today, some 150 years since Darwin's On the Origin of Species was published, the argument of design is seeing a revival...

20 Years of Hard Work!

2008 Reiss, J. O. and H. L. Eisthen. Comparative anatomy and physiology of chemical senses in amphibians. In H. Thewissen and S. Nummela, eds., Sensory Evolution on the Threshold, Adaptations in Secondarily Aquatic Vertebrates, pp. 43-63. Berkeley: University of California Press.

2007 Nieto, N.C., Camann, M.A., Foley, J.E., and Reiss, J.O. Disease associated with integumentary and cloacal parasites in tadpoles of Northern Red-legged Frog Rana aurora aurora. Diseases of Aquatic Organisms 78: 61–71.

2007 Reiss, J.O. Relative fitness, teleology, and the adaptive landscape. Evolutionary Biology 34: 4–27.

2005 Stuelpnagel, J. T. and J. O. Reiss. Olfactory metamorphosis in the Coastal Giant Salamander (Dicamptodon tenebrosus). Journal of Morphology 266:22–45.

2005 Reiss, J.O. Natural selection and the conditions for existence: representational vs. conditional teleology in biological explanation. History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences 27: 249-280.

2003 Reiss, J. O. Time. In: Keywords and Concepts in Evolutionary Developmental Biology, B. K. Hall and W. M. Olson, eds., pp. 358-368. Cambridge: Harvard University Press.

2002 Reiss, J.O. The phylogeny of amphibian metamorphosis. Zoology 105:85-96.

2002 Reiss, J.O. Time for a change? (Review of Beyond Heterochrony: The Evolution of Development). BioScience 52:848-850.

1998 Reiss, J. O. Anuran postnasal wall homology: An experimental extirpation study. Journal of Morphology 238: 343-353.

1998 Reiss, J. O. and G. D. Burd. Cellular and molecular interactions in the development of the Xenopus olfactory system. Seminars in Cell and Developmental Biology 8: 171-197.

1998 Hansen, A., J. O. Reiss, C. L. Gentry, and G. D. Burd. Ultrastructure of the olfactory organ in the clawed frog, Xenopus laevis, during larval development and metamorphosis. Journal of Comparative Neurology 398: 273-288.

1997 Reiss, J. O. Early development of chondrocranium in the tailed frog Ascaphus truei (Amphibia: Anura): implications for anuran palatoquadrate homologies. Journal of Morphology 231: 63-100.

1997 Reiss, J. O. and G. D. Burd. Metamorphic remodeling of the primary olfactory projection in Xenopus: developmental independence of projections from olfactory neuron subclasses. Journal of Neurobiology 32: 213-222.

1996 Reiss, J. O. Palatal metamorphosis in basal caecilians (Amphibia: Gymnophiona) as evidence for lissamphibian monophyly. Journal of Herpetology 30: 27-39.

1993 Rose, C. S. and J. O. Reiss. Metamorphosis and the vertebrate skull: ontogenetic patterns and developmental mechanisms. In: The Vertebrate Skull, vol. 1, pp. 289-346, J. Hanken & B.K. Hall, eds. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

1989 Reiss, J. O. The meaning of developmental time: a metric for comparative embryology. American Naturalist 134: 170-189.

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2004 Reiss, J. O. Life history, morphology, and the transition to dry land. Journal of Morphology 260: 321.