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BIO 345 — Organic Evolution

Updated 2 September 2010

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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.

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:
Topic:
Chapter:
Aug 19 —Course Introduction
Aug 24-26 —Overview & History of Evolution1
Aug 31-Sep 2 —Reconstructing Evolutionary Trees2
Sep 7-9 —Phylogenetics; Macroevolutionary Patterns2-3, 22
Sep 14-16 —History of Life; Biodiversity4-5, 7
Sep 21-23 —Evolutionary Biogeography
Exam 1 Sep 23		6
Sep 28-30 —Mutations; Allele Frequencies8
Oct 5-7 —Population genetics: Hardy-Weinberg9
Oct 12-14 —Population genetics: drift10, 12
Oct 19-21 —Population genetics: selection11-12
Oct 26-28 —Quantitative genetics
Exam 2 Oct 28		9, 13
Nov 2-4 —Adaptations & Levels of Selection11
Nov 9-11 —Life histories
No Class Nov 11 - Veteran's Day		14
Nov 16-18 —Sex & Sexual Selection15
Nov 23-25 —Kin Selection; Coevolution
No Class Nov 25 - Thanksgiving		16, 19
Nov 30-Dec2 —Species & Speciation17-18
Dec 7 —Evolutionary Development?21?
Dec 14 —Final Exam: 12:10 - 2:00

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