Listed in: Biology, as BIOL-32
Jill S. Miller (Section 01)
Evolution is a powerful and central theme that unifies the life sciences. In this course, emphasis is placed on microevolutionary mechanisms of change, and their connection to large-scale macroevolutionary patterns and diversity. Through lectures and readings from the primary literature, we will study genetic drift and gene flow, natural selection and adaptation, molecular evolution, speciation, the evolution of sex and sexual selection, life history evolution, and inference and interpretation of evolutionary relationships. The laboratory investigates evolutionary processes using computer simulations, artificial selection experiments, and a semester-long project that characterizes phenotypic breeding relationships among individuals and integrates these results with analyses of molecular sequence variation for genes contributing to mating recognition. Three hours of lecture and four hours of laboratory work each week. Requisite: Bilogy 18 and 19. Limited to 30 students. Not open to first-year students. Fall semester. Professor Miller.
Section 01
Tu 10:00 AM - 11:20 AM MERR 315
Th 10:00 AM - 11:20 AM MERR 315
Section 01
Tu 02:00 PM - 05:00 PM MCLS 146
Section 01
W 01:00 PM - 01:50 PM MERR 220