Evidence can be found in many forms. It can be primary or secondary. It can be from an interview or survey taken hours ago, or a centuries old artifact or newspaper. The article Here’s Why Salads Feel Feminine and Nachos Seem Manly by Tanya Basu uses secondary evidence in the form of a research paper by Luke Zhu. Alternatively, in the article Purity Through Food: How Religious Ideas Sell Diets by James Hamblin, he uses sources such as scholarly books so convey and prove his ideas. Although this may seem like a similar form of evidence to that used by Basu, the difference between a research paper and a scholarly book is vast, and each brings its own credibility to the topic and the ideas being discussed in the articles.
Solid post. If you were to revise this post in the future, you might want to think about how the authors use that evidence: do the evidence support the claim, provide background for the author's arguments, or contradict/complicate the thesis? You also might want to be more specific about what you mean by "vast" differences between the genre of research paper vs scholarly books.
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