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