BIO 258 Notes
WEEK #11.
MACROEVOLUTION (continued)

• Evolutionary patterns and processes (Futuyma ch. 24; Minkoff Ch. 21; E31).
  • Common trends (regularities):
    • Cope's rule
    • Williston's rule
    • other common trends
  • Dollo's law and historical laws in general
  • Punctuated equilibria vs gradualism
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• Diversity and extinction. (Futuyma ch. 25; Minkoff Ch. 17G, 20; E29).
  • Programmed vs random extinction
  • Case histories: Dodos, Irish elks, sabertooth cats, Gryphaea
  • Models of cladogenesis & extinction
  • Determining nonadaptiveness
  • Endangered species today

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