Here are the data sets used in The Analysis of Biological Data in chapter 3, in .csv (comma-separated) format. Most data sets used in the book are grabbed from graphs and tables in papers, and the values may not be exact.

Examples:

Example 3.1: Gliding snakes
----Socha, J. J. 2002. Nature 418: 603-604.

Example 3.2: Spider amputations
----Ramos, M., D. J. Irschick, and T. E. Christenson. 2004. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA 101: 4883–4887.

Example 3.3: Stickleback plates
----Colosimo, P. F., C. L. Peichel, K. Nereng, B. K. Blackman, M. D. Shapiro, D. Schluter, and D. M. Kingsley. 2004. PLOS Biology 2: 635–641.

Problems:

Question 3.4: Kenya finches
----Schluter, D. 1988. Ecological Monographs 58: 229–249.

Question 3.9: Rigor mortis
----Pounder, D. J. 1995. Postmortem changes and time of death. University of Dundee. http://www.dundee.ac.uk/forensicmedicine/llb/timedeath.htm.

Question 3.10: North sea cod
----inferred from Beaugrand, G., K. M. Brander, J. A. Lindley, S. Souissi and P. C. Reid. 2003. Nature 426: 661-664.

Question 3.11: Vasopressin voles
----inferred from Lim, M. M., et al. 2004. Nature 429:754-757.

Question 3.12: Antilles immigration
----inferred from Ricklefs, R. E. and E. Bermingham. 2001. Science 294: 1522-1524.

Question 3.13: Diet breadth El Verde
----Waide R. B., and W. B. Reagan, eds. 1996. The food web of a tropical rainforest. University of Chicago Press, Chicago.

Question 3.18: Sparrow reprodution
----inferred from Jensen, H., et al. 2004. Journal of Animal Ecology 73: 599–611.