Course Information
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Description: Processes of adaptive change and speciation in sexual populations. Prerequisites: C or better in BIO340 or LSC 347/348 and in CHM 115 or 116
Current Section:
BIO 345 in not being offered this semester
The Instructor: Udo M. Savalli
Required Supplies: 4 Scantron Forms 882-E Text: C.T. Bergstrom & L.A. Dugatkin 2023. Evolution, 3rd ed. Norton.
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Announcements & Upcoming
Lecture Schedule (Fall 2023)
Week of:
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Aug 21-23 — | Course Introduction & History of Evolution | 1-2
| Aug 28-30 — | Overview of Selection & Adaptation | 3
| Sep 4-6 — | No Class Sep 4 - Labor Day
Intro to Evolutionary Trees | 4-5
| Sep 11-13 — | Reconstructing Evolutionary Trees | 5
| Sep 18-20 — | Interpreting Trees; What is a Species? | 4, 14
| Sep 25-27 — | Exam 1 - Sep 25
Origin of Species | 14
| Oct 2-4 — | History of Life | 11-12
| Oct 9-11 — | No Class Oct 9 - Fall Break
Macroevolution | 15
| Oct 16-18 — | Evolutionary Development | 13
| Oct 23-25 — | Mutations; Population Genetics | 6, 7
| Oct 30-Nov 1 — | Exam 2 - Oct 30
Population Genetics, continued | 7
| Nov 6-8 — | Genetic Drift | 8
| Nov 13-15 — | Quantitative Genetics | 9
| Nov 20-22 — | Evolution of Sex; Sexual Selection | 16
| Nov 27-29 — | Kin Selection & Cooperation | 17
| Dec 8 — | Final Exam: 2:30 - 4:20 |
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