BIOL349

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BIOL349

Evolution BIOL349 SP

Spring 97 Availability (Last Updated on Thu Apr 17 05:00:17 EDT 1997 )

Section  Limit  Enrollment  Available
  01       999      0         Open

Next Offered in 9798 SP

An advanced course that stresses current areas of research in evolutionary biology. Topics include the evidence for evolution; the nature of variation; adaptive and random evolutionary processes in natural populations; mechanisms of speciation; reconstruction of the history of life through the use of DNA sequence data; coevolution of plant-animal and host-parasite interactions; and the application of evolutionary principles to conservation biology.

MAJOR READINGS

M. Slatkin, EXPLORING EVOLUTION BIOLOGY
M. Ridley, EVOLUTION
And readings from the primary literature.

EXAMINATIONS AND ASSIGNMENTS

Midterm exam, final exam and a poster project.

ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS and/or COMMENTS

Graduate students only will be expected to give a short (20 min.) presentation on some aspect of evolutionary biology.

COURSE FORMAT: Discussion Lecture

REGISTRATION INFORMATION

Level: UG Credit: 1.00

Prerequisites: BIOL205 and BIOL206 and BIOL207

Last Updated on MAR-10-1997

About the Photo:

Darwin leans against a post on the veranda of Down House in 1881, the year before his death

Reference:

Lewin, Roger, THREAD OF LIFE: A SMITHSONIAN LOOKS AT EVOLUTION, Washington D.C.: Smithsonian Books, 1982

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