COURSE
SCHEDULE
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Topic / Activity |
Assigned reading |
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assignment due at beginning of class period |
pages from text unless noted |
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INTRODUCTION |
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Jan 6 |
Course
introduction, syllabus distribution |
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Jan 8 |
What is
evolution? |
Ch.1:
3-9 |
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Jan 10 |
Why is
evolution fundamental to biology? |
Ch.1:
12-14, 17 |
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Jan 13 |
Evidence
for evolution |
Ch.2:
21-32 |
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Jan 15 |
History
of evolutionary thought |
Ch.2:
32-36 |
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Jan 17 |
DISCUSSION 1 |
“The
Panda’s Thumb” |
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MICROEVOLUTION
1: NATURAL SELECTION |
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Jan 20 |
No class; Martin Luther King,
Jr. holiday |
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Jan 22 |
Natural
selection 1 |
Ch.3: 47-56 |
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Jan 24 |
Natural
selection 2 |
Ch.3:
57-65 |
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Jan 27 |
Sexual
selection |
Ch.9:
289-299, 302-307, 317-319 |
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Jan 29* |
Quantitative
traits and heritability |
Ch. 7:
224-233 |
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*natural selection problems due |
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Jan 31 |
DISCUSSION 2 |
Grant
& Grant 1995 |
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Feb 3 |
Life
history evolution |
Ch.11:
359-375 |
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Feb 5 |
Measuring
selection and response to selection |
Ch.7:
234-237, 241-145 |
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Feb 7 |
Measuring
selection and response to selection 2 |
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Feb 10 |
Adaptive
evolution |
Ch.8:
251-255, 268-283 |
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Feb 12* |
Limits
to adaptation and phenotypic plasticity |
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*response to selection problems due |
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Feb 14 |
Cooperation
and conflict |
Ch.10:
331-337, 345-353; Ch.11: 389-390 |
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MICROEVOLUTION
2: INTERACTING EVOLUTIONARY FORCES |
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Feb 17 |
No class, snow day |
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Feb 19 |
***EXAM 1*** |
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Feb 21 |
Population
genetics |
Ch.4:
94-102; Ch.5: 109-119 |
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Feb 24 |
Hardy-Weinberg
equilibriumSelection |
Ch.5: 109-119 |
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Feb 26 |
DISCUSSION 3 |
Emlen 2001 |
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Feb 28 |
No class, Research Symposium |
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Mar 3 |
Selection
Mutation |
Ch.5: 119-138 |
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Mar 5 |
Mutation
and Genetic drift |
Ch.5:
142-149; Ch.6: 163-178 |
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Mar 7 |
Genetic
drift and Migration and non-random mating |
Ch.6:
157-163 |
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Mar
10-14 |
SPRING BREAK, NO CLASS |
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Mar 17 |
Interacting
evolutionary forces |
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Mar 19* |
Non-random
mating |
Ch.6:
179-183 |
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*population genetics problems due |
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Mar 21 |
DISCUSSION 4 |
Ke et al. 2001 |
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Mar 24 |
Disease
evolution |
Ch.1:
10-12; Ch.19: 647-655 |
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Mar 26 |
***EXAM 2*** |
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Mar 28 |
Molecular
evolution |
Ch.18:
611-623; Ch.19: 641-647 |
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MACROEVOLUTION |
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Mar 31 |
Speciation
1 |
Ch.12:
403-414 |
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Apr 2 |
Speciation
2 |
Ch.12:
414-423 |
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Apr 4* |
DISCUSSION 5 |
Irwin
et al. 2002, Wake 2002 |
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*proposal topic due |
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Apr 7* |
Tracing
evolutionary history 1 |
Ch.13:
437-446 |
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*proposal source summaries due |
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Apr 9 |
Tracing
evolutionary history simulation |
problem
set 4 handouts |
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Apr 11 |
Tracing
evolutionary history 2 |
Ch.13:
450-453, 456-459 |
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Apr 14* |
Human
evolutionary history |
Ch.16:
549-552, 554-558, 563-572 |
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*tracing evolutionary history problems due |
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Apr 16 |
Macroevolutionary patterns |
Ch.15:
521-526; Ch.17: 587-590, 592-594 |
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Apr 18 |
No class; Good Friday |
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Apr 21* |
Evolution
and society |
TBA |
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*research proposal due |
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Apr 23 |
Evolution
and society |
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Apr 25 |
DISCUSSION 6 |
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Apr 28* |
RESEARCH PROPOSAL PANEL
DISCUSSION |
TBA |
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*proposal review due |
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May 2 |
***FINAL EXAM*** ( |
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