TEXT: Futuyma, Douglas. EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY. Sunderland MA: Sinauer Associates.
| DATES: | TOPICS AND READING ASSIGNMENTS: |
| Jan. 9 (E1,2,3) | Introduction, overview, science, living systems. (Ch. 1). Ancient thought from Thales to Lucretius. |
| Jan. 11 (E3,4) | HISTORY OF EVOLUTIONARY THEORIES: Biological classicism, scala naturae (Ch. 2); French environmentalism; German Naturphilosophie. |
| Jan. 16 (E5,6) | Natural Theology.
Early geology. Charles Lyell. |
| Jan. 18 (E7) | Charles Darwin: youth, education, Beagle voyage, events of 1858. |
| Jan. 23 (E8, 26) | Darwinism: Origin of Species; lineages, descent, classification & phylogeny (Ch. 5). |
| Jan. 25 (E35) | THE FOSSIL RECORD AND THE HISTORY OF LIFE ON
EARTH: Origin of life. Endosymbiosis. (Ch. 7) |
| Jan. 30 (E36) | Animal evolution. Vertebrates. |
| Feb. 1 (E27,28) |
Opportunism and other lessons from the fossil record.
Horses (Ch. 6). |
| Feb. 6 (E12) | FIRST EXAMINATION |
| Feb. 8 (E9,10) | GENETICS AND MICROEVOLUTION (small scale
explanations): Mendel and the birth of genetics. (Ch. 3). Cells; Sutton & chromosomes. |
| Feb. 13 (E11,13) | Mutations and the era of conflict; modern synthesis. Origins of hereditary variation. (Ch. 10). |
| Feb. 15 (E14,15) | Genetic variation: equilibrium & departures
from equilibrium. (Ch. 9). Population structure & drift; genetic systems (Ch. 11, 21). |
| Feb. 17-25 | HAVE A NICE WINTER VACATION
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| Feb. 27 (E17,18) | Natural selection: adaptation. (Ch. 12). Single gene traits. (Ch. 13). |
| Mar. 1 (E19) | Natural selection: quantitative traits. (Ch. 14). |
| Mar. 6 (E20) | Natural selection: persistence of variability. |
| Mar. 8 (E21,22) | Species: Geographic variation, clines, hybrids. Species definitions. (Ch. 15). |
| Mar. 13 (E23,24) | Allopatric speciation. (Ch. 16). Alternative modes of speciation. |
| Mar. 15 (E25) | SECOND EXAMINATION |
| Mar. 20 (E30) | CHARACTER EVOLUTION & MACROEVOLUTION
(large scale): Form, function, and phylogeny. (Ch. 17). Life histories & development. (Chs. 19, 23). |
| Mar. 22 (E16,32) | Ecology; r & K. (Chs. 4, 18).
Biogeography. (Ch. 8). |
| Mar. 27 (E33,34) | Behavior and evolution. Sociobiology. (Ch. 20). |
| Mar. 29 (E29-31) | Molecular evolution. (Ch. 22). Evolutionary patterns and processes. (Ch. 24). Diversity and extinction. (Ch. 25). |
| Apr. 3 (E37,38) | Human evolution. Cultural evolution & the future. (Ch. 26). |
| Apr. 5 (E39) | Confronting creationism. (Appendix 2). |