| Week |
Lecture Topic |
Readings and handouts |
| Aug 17 |
Course introduction
Think like a scientist & experimental design
|
Course syllabus
Thinking like a scientist:
|
| Aug 24 |
What is evolution and how does it work? |
Chapter 2
SimBio EvoBeaker: How the
Guppies Got Their Spots |
| Aug 31 |
What is evolution? (cont'd)
Case study: What is Evolutionary
Thinking? |
Chapter 2
Chapter 1
Peeples, Lynn. (2009)
Rise 'n Die, HIV: Strategies for a Cure Based on Waking the
AIDS Virus.
Scientific American. July 30.
SimBio Evobeaker: HIV Clocks |
|
Labor Day
Weekend and Faculty Development Day September 5-8 |
| Sept 9 |
Darwinian Natural Selection
Reading and Interpreting
scientific articles
Adaptation
|
Chapter 3
Links - you should read these over before we
cover this topic in class.
Chapter 10 |
| Sept 14 |
Exam 1
Adaptation |
Chapters 1-3,
experimental design
Chapter 10 |
| Sept 21 |
Speciation |
Chapter 16 |
| Sept 28 |
Building evolutionary trees |
Chapter 4
SimBio Evobeaker: Domesticating
Dogs |
| Oct 5 |
Mutation and Variation |
Chapter 5
Read pp. 143-148 on your own.
These pages are review, and
so they won't be covered in lecture, but you are expected to
know and understand the material in that section and this
material may be used on the exam.
Read pp. 152-160
These pages will not be
covered in lecture, but they are valid topics for the exam
|
|
Last day to drop without academic penalty: Friday, October 9th |
| Oct 12 |
Population
genetics I
Exam 2 |
Chapter 6
- Read pp. 169-180 on
your own.
- These pages are
review, and so they won't be covered in lecture, but you
are expected to know and understand the material in that
section and this information may appear on the exam.
Chapters 4, 10, 16 |
| Oct 19 |
Population
genetics I |
Chapter 6 |
| Oct 26 |
Population
genetics II |
Chapter 7 |
| Nov 2 |
Quantitative
genetics Sexual
selection |
Chapter 9 (skip
section 9.2) Chapter 11 |
| Nov 9 |
Sexual selection
Exam 3 |
Chapter 11
Chapters 5-7, 9) |
| Nov 16 |
Sexual selection
Social interactions |
Chapter 11
Chapter 12 |
| Nov 23 |
Social
interactions Origins of
Life |
Chapter 12
Chapter 17 |
|
November 24: 150th
Anniversary of the publication of On the Origin of
Species |
|
Thanksgiving Break
November 25 - 29 |
| Nov 30 |
Origins of Life
Review for Final |
Chapter 17 Final is
comprehensive and will include in more detail Chapters 11,
12, and 17 |
