... "Experimental Design for the Life Sciences" by Graeme Ruxton and Nick Colegrave, published by Oxford. This book has been advocated by many people (26 so far!, actually almost everyone who has replied to my original email). It seems to be the community's clear favorite. Some folks suggested complementing it with some selected readings from here and there, most notably with Hurlbert's 1984 paper of Pseudoreplication. Now let's see what my students say... Rafa -------- Mensaje original -------- Asunto: introductory text for experimental design in EEB Fecha: Mon, 22 Apr 2013 19:17:23 +0200 De: Rafael Rubio de Casas Para: evoldir@evol.biology.mcmaster.ca Dear evoldir members, I am looking for a good book on experimental design that could be used at the early undergraduate level. It is hard to know exactly what I am after. It would have to be descriptive, with very simple and graphical examples, cover a wide variety of topics and ideally describe both empirical and modeling approaches. I guess it would probably be something like Gotelli & Ellison's "Primer in Ecological Genetics" but focused on experimental design in ecology and evolution. Maybe "Experimental design in organismal biology for dummies" if such a thing exists... Does anyone know of a good title? Thanks in advance, Rafa -- Rafael Rubio de Casas *Departamento de Ecología* Facultad de Ciencias Universidad de Granada Granada, E-18071 (+34) 958 249 861 rubiodecasas@ugr.es