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+ | ==Evolution in the News== | ||
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+ | ==Lecture Syllabus== | ||
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+ | '''''Please read assigned chapters, as indicated below, prior to class''''' | ||
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+ | !width="40"|Day | ||
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+ | !width="350"|Topic | ||
+ | !width=''450''|Text Readings | ||
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+ | | '''Part I''' || ||'''Jan 21 - Mar 6''' || <span style="font-size: large">'''Patterns of Evolution'''</span> || '''Dr. Janine Caira''' | ||
+ | |- | ||
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+ | |- | ||
+ | | 1 || T || Jan 21 || Introduction to the Geological Time Scale; the Fossil Record || Ch. 4 (pgs 77-81) | ||
+ | |- | ||
+ | | 2 || Th || Jan 23 || Life in the Precambrian; Evolution of the Metazoa || Ch. 5 (pgs 103-110) | ||
+ | |- | ||
+ | |||
+ | |- | ||
+ | | 3 || T || Jan 28 || Cambrian explosion & Life in the Paleozoic || Ch. 5 (pgs 111-119) | ||
+ | |- | ||
+ | |||
+ | |- | ||
+ | | 4 || Th || Jan 30 || Life in the Mesozoic || Ch. 5 (pgs 119-125) | ||
+ | |- | ||
+ | |||
+ | |- | ||
+ | | 5 || T || Feb 4 || Life in the Cenozoic || Ch. 5 (pgs 1215-132) | ||
+ | |- | ||
+ | |||
+ | |- | ||
+ | | 6 || Th || Feb 6 || Evolution of primates || Ch. 4 (pgs 90-95) &<br> | ||
+ | |- | ||
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+ | |- | ||
+ | | 7 || T || Feb 11 || Evolution of biodiversity & extinction || Ch. 7 | ||
+ | |- | ||
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+ | |- | ||
+ | | 8 || '''Th''' || '''Feb 13''' || '''Exam #1''' (covers lecture 1-6) | ||
+ | |- | ||
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+ | | 9 || T || Feb 18 || Characters, homology & homoplasy || Ch. 3 | ||
+ | |- | ||
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+ | | 10 || Th || Feb 20 || Systematics & reconstructing evolutionary history || Ch. 2 | ||
+ | |- | ||
+ | |||
+ | |- | ||
+ | | 11 || T || Feb 25 || Evolution and Development || Ch. 21 | ||
+ | |- | ||
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+ | |- | ||
+ | | 12 || Th || Feb 27 || Biogeography and major patterns of distribution || Ch. 6 | ||
+ | |- | ||
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+ | | 13 || T || Mar 4 || Continental drift & historical biogeography || Ch. 6 | ||
+ | |- | ||
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+ | | 14 || '''Th''' || '''Mar 6''' || '''Exam #2''' (covers lecture 7 & 9-13) | ||
+ | |- | ||
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+ | | '''Part II''' || || '''Mar 11 - May 1''' || <span style="font-size: large">'''Processes of Evolution'''</span> || '''Dr. Charles Henry''' | ||
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+ | | 15 || T || Mar 11 || Populations, variation, & the Hardy-Weinberg principle | ||
+ | |||
+ | || Ch. 1 (7-12), 9, 13 | ||
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+ | |- | ||
+ | | 16 || Th || Mar 13 || Agents of evolutionary change: mutation & gene flow | ||
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+ | || Ch. 9 | ||
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+ | | <span style="font-size: small"><font color="#FF3300"> </font></span> ||<span style="font-size: small"><font color="#FF3300">'''Th''' </font></span>||<span style="font-size: small"><font color="#FF3300"> '''Mar 18''' </font></span>|| <span style="font-size: small"><font color="#FF3300">'''SPRING BREAK- no class'''</font></span><span style="font-size: small"><font color="#FF3300"><br><span style="font-size: small"><font color="#FF3300"></font></span><span style="font-size: small"><font color="#FF3300"> | ||
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+ | | <span style="font-size: small"><font color="#FF3300"> </font></span> ||<span style="font-size: small"><font color="#FF3300">'''Th''' </font></span>||<span style="font-size: small"><font color="#FF3300"> '''Mar 20''' </font></span>|| <span style="font-size: small"><font color="#FF3300">'''SPRING BREAK- no class'''</font></span><span style="font-size: small"><font color="#FF3300"><br><span style="font-size: small"><font color="#FF3300"></font></span><span style="font-size: small"><font color="#FF3300"> | ||
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+ | | 17 || T || Mar 25 || Sampling error:genetic drift and the bottleneck/founder effects | ||
+ | || Ch. 10 | ||
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+ | |- | ||
+ | | 18 || Th || Mar 27 || Charles Darwin and natural selection, part 1 | ||
+ | || Ch. 1 & 11 | ||
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+ | |- | ||
+ | | 19 || T || Apr 1 || Natural selection part 2 | ||
+ | || Ch. 11,12,13 | ||
+ | |- | ||
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+ | | 20 || Th || Apr 3 || Life history evolution, part 1 | ||
+ | || Ch. 13 & 14 | ||
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+ | | 21 || T || Apr 3 || Life history evolution, part 2 | ||
+ | || Ch. 14 | ||
+ | |- | ||
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+ | | 22 || '''Th''' || '''Apr 10''' || '''Exam 3''' (covers lectures 15-21)|| | ||
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+ | | 23 || T || Apr 15 || Sexual selection ('''''guest lecture''''') | ||
+ | || Ch. 15 | ||
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+ | | 24 || Th || Apr 17 || Levels of selection ('''''guest lecture''''') | ||
+ | || Ch. 16 | ||
+ | |- | ||
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+ | | 25 || T || Apr 22 || Species and species concepts | ||
+ | || Ch. 17 & 18 | ||
+ | |- | ||
+ | |||
+ | |- | ||
+ | | 26 || Th || Apr 24 || Geographic variation, clines, and allopatric speciation | ||
+ | || Ch. 17 & 18 | ||
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+ | |||
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+ | | 27 || T || Apr 29 || Non-allopatric speciation | ||
+ | || Ch. 18 & 22 | ||
+ | |- | ||
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+ | | 28 || Th || May 1 || Evolution above the species level | ||
+ | || Ch. 22 | ||
+ | |- | ||
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+ | |- | ||
+ | | || ||Date not yet set || '''EXAM #4''' (covers lectures 23-28)|| | ||
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Revision as of 16:04, 20 January 2014
EEB 2245
Evolutionary Biology
Meeting Time: Tuesdays and Thursdays, 9:30-10:45 in TLS154
Textbook: Futuyma, D.J. 2013. Evolution. 3rd ed. Sinauer Associates, Inc. (ISBN 978-1-60535-115-5)
Contents
Instructors
First half of the course, 21 January - 6 March
Dr. Janine Caira
Office: TLS 479/481
Phone: 486-4060
E-mail: janine.caira@uconn.edu
Office hours: By arrangement
Second half of the course, 11 March - 1 May
Dr. Charles Henry
Office: TLS 479/481
Phone: 486-4450
E-mail: charles.henry@uconn.edu
Office hours: By arrangement
Teaching Assistants
James Bernot
Office: BioPharm 478
Phone: 486-1882
Email: james.bernot@uconn.edu
Students A-K
Office hours: By arrangement
Tim Moore
Office: TLS 363
Phone: 486-4638
Email: timothy.e.moore@uconn.edu
Students L-Z
Office hours: By arrangement
Grading
EEB 2245: Your grade will be based on your performance in four lecture exams. Your lowest
score on the first 3 exams will be dropped, and your scores on the two remaining exams and the final exam will each constitute one-third of your final grade. University regulations require that students who miss the final exam without an excuse from the Dean of Students receive an F for that exam. Thus, you are required to take the final exam. Note: because you are allowed to drop your lowest score, we will not give make-up exams.
EEB 2245W: Your final grade in the lecture portion of the course will be calculated as above.
This grade will constitute 75% of your final course grade. Your grade in the W part of
the course, as determined by your “W” instructor, will constitute the remaining 25% of
your final course grade, except that an F in the W part of the course will result in an F
for the entire course. An F in the lecture part of the course will also result in an F for
the entire course. Refer to the 2245W website
(http://hydrodictyon.eeb.uconn.edu/eebedia/index.php/EEB2245W_Spring_2014) for
further information. Dr. Elizabeth Jockusch (BioPharm 305B; tel: 486–4452;
elizabeth.jockusch@uconn.edu) is the coordinator of the W part of the course.
Course Resources
Evolution in the News
Lecture Syllabus
Please read assigned chapters, as indicated below, prior to class
Day | Date | Topic | Text Readings | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Part I | Jan 21 - Mar 6 | Patterns of Evolution | Dr. Janine Caira | |
1 | T | Jan 21 | Introduction to the Geological Time Scale; the Fossil Record | Ch. 4 (pgs 77-81) |
2 | Th | Jan 23 | Life in the Precambrian; Evolution of the Metazoa | Ch. 5 (pgs 103-110) |
3 | T | Jan 28 | Cambrian explosion & Life in the Paleozoic | Ch. 5 (pgs 111-119) |
4 | Th | Jan 30 | Life in the Mesozoic | Ch. 5 (pgs 119-125) |
5 | T | Feb 4 | Life in the Cenozoic | Ch. 5 (pgs 1215-132) |
6 | Th | Feb 6 | Evolution of primates | Ch. 4 (pgs 90-95) & |
7 | T | Feb 11 | Evolution of biodiversity & extinction | Ch. 7 |
8 | Th | Feb 13 | Exam #1 (covers lecture 1-6) | |
9 | T | Feb 18 | Characters, homology & homoplasy | Ch. 3 |
10 | Th | Feb 20 | Systematics & reconstructing evolutionary history | Ch. 2 |
11 | T | Feb 25 | Evolution and Development | Ch. 21 |
12 | Th | Feb 27 | Biogeography and major patterns of distribution | Ch. 6 |
13 | T | Mar 4 | Continental drift & historical biogeography | Ch. 6 |
14 | Th | Mar 6 | Exam #2 (covers lecture 7 & 9-13) | |
Part II | Mar 11 - May 1 | Processes of Evolution | Dr. Charles Henry | |
15 | T | Mar 11 | Populations, variation, & the Hardy-Weinberg principle | Ch. 1 (7-12), 9, 13 |
16 | Th | Mar 13 | Agents of evolutionary change: mutation & gene flow | Ch. 9 |
Th | Mar 18 | SPRING BREAK- no class | ||
Th | Mar 20 | SPRING BREAK- no class | ||
17 | T | Mar 25 | Sampling error:genetic drift and the bottleneck/founder effects | Ch. 10 |
18 | Th | Mar 27 | Charles Darwin and natural selection, part 1 | Ch. 1 & 11 |
19 | T | Apr 1 | Natural selection part 2 | Ch. 11,12,13 |
20 | Th | Apr 3 | Life history evolution, part 1 | Ch. 13 & 14 |
21 | T | Apr 3 | Life history evolution, part 2 | Ch. 14 |
22 | Th | Apr 10 | Exam 3 (covers lectures 15-21) | |
23 | T | Apr 15 | Sexual selection (guest lecture) | Ch. 15 |
24 | Th | Apr 17 | Levels of selection (guest lecture) | Ch. 16 |
25 | T | Apr 22 | Species and species concepts | Ch. 17 & 18 |
26 | Th | Apr 24 | Geographic variation, clines, and allopatric speciation | Ch. 17 & 18 |
27 | T | Apr 29 | Non-allopatric speciation | Ch. 18 & 22 |
28 | Th | May 1 | Evolution above the species level | Ch. 22 |
Date not yet set | EXAM #4 (covers lectures 23-28) |