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BIO 345 — Organic Evolution

Updated 14 December 2011

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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 spring

The Instructor: Udo M. Savalli

Required Supplies: 4 Scantron Forms 882-E

Text: D. J. Futuyma 2009. Evolution, 2nd ed. Sinauer.

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Lecture Schedule
(Fall 2011)

Week of:
Topic:
Chapter:
Aug 19 —Course Introduction
Aug 22-26 —Overview & History of Evolution1
Aug 29-Sep 2 —Reconstructing Evolutionary Trees2
Sep 7-9 —No Class Sep 5 - Labor Day
Phylogenetics; Macroevolutionary Patterns
2-3, 22
Sep 12-16 —History of Life
Exam 1 - Sep 14
Biodiversity		4-5

7
Sep 19-23 —Evolutionary Biogeography6
Sep 26-30 —Mutations; Allele Frequencies8
Oct 3-7 —Population genetics: Hardy-Weinberg9
Oct 10-14 —Exam 2 - Oct 10
Population genetics: selection
11-12
Oct 17-21 —Population genetics: drift10, 12
Oct 24-28 —Quantitative genetics9, 13
Oct 31-Nov 4 —Adaptations & Levels of Selection11
Nov 7-9 —Exam 3 - Nov 7
Life histories
No Class Nov 11 - Veteran's Day
14
Nov 14-18 —Sex & Sexual Selection15
Nov 21-23 —Kin Selection; Coevolution
No Class Nov 25 - Thanksgiving		16, 19
Nov 28-Dec2 —Species & Speciation17-18
Dec 5 —Speciation, continued18
Dec 14 —Final Exam: 7:30 - 9:20

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