Course Information

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Description: Processes of adaptive change and speciation in sexual populations. Prerequisites: BIO 187, 188.
Current Section:
BIO 345 in not being offered this summer
The Instructor: Udo M. Savalli
Required Supplies: 3 Scantron Forms 882-E Text: D. J. Futuyma 2009. Evolution, 2nd ed. Sinauer.
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Announcements & Upcoming
- Sep 14 — Phylogenetic Analysis Homework Due
- Sep 23 — Exam 1
- Oct 28 — Exam 2
- Nov 3 — Last day to withdraw
- Nov 11 — NO CLASS — Veteran's Day
- Nov 25 — NO CLASS — Thanksgiving
- Dec 14 — Final Exam, 12:10 - 2:00 pm
Lecture Schedule (Fall 2010)
Week of:
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| Aug 19 — | Course Introduction |
| | Aug 24-26 — | Overview & History of Evolution | 1
| | Aug 31-Sep 2 — | Reconstructing Evolutionary Trees | 2
| | Sep 7-9 — | Phylogenetics; Macroevolutionary Patterns | 2-3, 22
| | Sep 14-16 — | History of Life; Biodiversity | 4-5, 7
| | Sep 21-23 — | Evolutionary Biogeography Exam 1 Sep 23 | 6
| | Sep 28-30 — | Mutations; Allele Frequencies | 8
| | Oct 5-7 — | Population genetics: Hardy-Weinberg | 9
| | Oct 12-14 — | Population genetics: drift | 10, 12
| | Oct 19-21 — | Population genetics: selection | 11-12
| | Oct 26-28 — | Quantitative genetics Exam 2 Oct 28 | 9, 13
| | Nov 2-4 — | Adaptations & Levels of Selection | 11
| | Nov 9-11 — | Life histories No Class Nov 11 - Veteran's Day | 14
| | Nov 16-18 — | Sex & Sexual Selection | 15
| | Nov 23-25 — | Kin Selection; Coevolution No Class Nov 25 - Thanksgiving | 16, 19
| | Nov 30-Dec2 — | Species & Speciation | 17-18
| | Dec 7 — | Evolutionary Development? | 21?
| | Dec 14 — | Final Exam: 12:10 - 2:00 |
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