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<span style="font-size: x-large">EEB 2245</span><br>
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<span style="font-size: x-large">EEB 2245: Evolutionary Biology</span><br>
<span style="font-size: large">''Evolutionary Biology''</span><br>
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<span style="font-size: small">'''Meeting Time:''' Tuesdays and Thursdays, 12:30-1:45 in BRAUN 124<br>
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<span style="font-size: small">'''Textbook:''' Futuyma, D.J. 2009. ''Evolution''. 2nd ed. Sinauer Associates, Inc. (ISBN 978-0-87893-223-8) <br><br>
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==Instructors==
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'''First half of the course, 17 January - 1 March'''<br>
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[mailto:janine.caira@uconn.edu Dr. Janine N. Caira]<br>
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Office: TLS 483<br>
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Phone: 486-4060<br>
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E-mail: janine.caira@uconn.edu<br>
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Office hours: By arrangement<br><br>
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'''Second half of the course, 6 March - 26 April'''<br>
 
[mailto:charles.henry@uconn.edu Dr. Charles Henry]<br>
 
Office: TLS 479/481<br>
 
Phone: 486-4450<br>
 
Email: charles.henry@uconn.edu<br>
 
Office hours: By arrangement<br><br>
 
  
==Teaching Assistants==
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<span style="font-size: small">'''Meeting Time:''' Tuesdays and Thursdays, 12:30-1:45 in UTEB 150<br>
[mailto:elizabeth.timpe@uconn.edu Beth Timpe]<br>
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Office: BioPharm 318<br>
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Phone: 486-6215<br>
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Email: elizabeth.timpe@uconn.edu<br>
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'''Students A-K'''<br>
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Office hours: By arrangement<br><br>
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[mailto:kathryn.rymsza@uconn.edu Kathryn Rymsza]<br>
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'''Instructor:'''  Chris Simon, Professor EEB, Office: Biopharm 305D, phone 6-4640, Lab: Biopharm 323 & 325, phone 6-3947;  <br>
Office: Biopharm 405<br>
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'''e-mail:''' chris.simon@uconn.edu [e-mail is the best place to leave messages.]<br>
Phone: 486-4027<br>
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Email: kathryn.rymsza@uconn.edu<br>
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'''Students L-Z'''<br>
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Office hours: By arrangement<br><br>
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==Grading==
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'''Office hours:''' Flexible except in the morning before our class. See me after class or send me an e-mail to arrange a meeting. I encourage quick questions by electronic mail.  With longer questions or many questions, please come to see me or your TA, Colin Carlson. Don’t wait until the day before an exam!
'''EEB 2245: Your grade will be based on your performance in 4 lecture exams.''' Your lowest score on the first 3 exams will be dropped. Your 2 remaining scores and your score on 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 and your score on that exam will count towards your grade.'''<br><br>
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'''Note:''' because you are allowed to drop your lowest score, '''''we will not give make-up exams.'''''<br><br>
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'''EEB 2245W:''' Your final grade in the lecture portion of the course will be calculated as above. If you are taking the W version of the course, that 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 [http://hydrodictyon.eeb.uconn.edu/eebedia/index.php/EEB2245W_Spring_2012 2245W website] for further information. '''[mailto:elizabeth.jockusch@uconn.edu Dr. Elizabeth Jockusch] (BioPharm 305B; tel: 486-4452; elizabeth.jockusch@uconn.edu)''' is the coordinator of the W part of the course.
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'''Teaching Assistant:'''  Colin Carlson, e-mail: colin.carlson@uconn.edu
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==Course Resources==
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'''Class Website:  http://hydrodictyon.eeb.uconn.edu/eebedia/index.php/Category:EEB_Courses
  
:{{pdf|http://hydrodictyon.eeb.uconn.edu/courses/evolution/restricted/EEB2245syllabusS2012.pdf}} EEB2245 syllabus<br><br>
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'''Grade:''' The goal of this class is to teach you the basic principles of evolution and to give you an appreciation for the science. It is important to me that you learn the material. I hate to assign grades but they are required. Therefore I am trying an experiment this semester to try to lessen the pressure on the midterm and enhance your learning experience. Each Friday I will post a Study Guide. Each Wednesday, TA Colin Carlson will host a study guide review session. Each Thursday at the end of class, as a quiz, I will ask you a few questions from that study guide. We’ll grade the quizzes and return them to you by the following Thursday. Hopefully these quizzes will serve to prepare you for the first midterm and to ensure that your grade is not based on your performance on only the midterm and the final.
'''EXAM 1'''
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:{{pdf|http://hydrodictyon.eeb.uconn.edu/courses/evolution/restricted/Exam%20I%20S10%20version%201.pdf}} Example of Exam 1 (from 2010)<br>
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:{{pdf|http://hydrodictyon.eeb.uconn.edu/courses/evolution/restricted/Study_Guide_exam_1_2012_final.pdf}} Final Study Guide for Exam 1<br><br>
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'''EXAM 2'''
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:{{pdf|http://hydrodictyon.eeb.uconn.edu/courses/evolution/restricted/Exam%202%20S2010.pdf}} Example of Exam 2 (from 2010)<br>
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:{{pdf|http://hydrodictyon.eeb.uconn.edu/courses/evolution/restricted/Study%20Guide%20Exam%202_2012_final.pdf}} FINAL Study Guide for Exam 2<br>
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:{{pdf|http://hydrodictyon.eeb.uconn.edu/courses/evolution/restricted/EEB%202245_W_S12_tree_exercises_rev.pdf}} Tree Exercises for Exam 2 (with answers)<br><br>
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'''EXAM 3'''
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:{{pdf|http://hydrodictyon.eeb.uconn.edu/courses/evolution/restricted/Exam_Studyguide1_Henry_2245.pdf}} FINAL Study Guide for Exam 3 (first 7 lectures) <br><br>
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'''EXAM 4 (FINAL)'''
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:{{pdf|http://hydrodictyon.eeb.uconn.edu/courses/evolution/restricted/Exam_Studyguide_2245_final_exam.pdf}} FINAL Study Guide for Exam 4 (last 6 lectures) <br><br>
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'''In regards to studying for Exam 2:'''<br>
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'''EEB 245:''' There will be a series of ten quizzes (as described above) and two one-hour exams covering each half of the course (listed on the syllabus) and a comprehensive one-hour synthetic final exam. The second one-hour exam will be given in the same two-hour time block as the synthetic final. The quizzes will count 10% of your total grade, the first exam 40% and the second hour exam plus the final will count 25% each.  
1) A phylogenetic tree practice set will be available by Friday afternoon (24th of February). '''SEE ABOVE'''<br><br>
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2) Remember to look at the examples and figures in your textbook (Chapter 2) to help with your understanding of phylogenetic trees.<br><br>
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3) Keys of Practice Exam 2 will be posted outside your TA's office sometime on Monday. If you want to check your answers against the key, please do so before '''Wednesday''' night!! The BioPharmacy building's hallways lock up from 6PM - 7:30AM, so you will not have access to the exam keys between these times!<br><br>
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4) See below for the time and locations of the Exam 2 review sessions.<br><br>
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==Review Sessions==
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'''EEB  245W:''' If you are registered for EEB 245W, 75% of the final  course grade will be determined by your lecture exams (as above) and 25% by your term  paper.  As required by University regulations, an F in the W part of the course will result in an  F for  the  entire course.  At least two drafts of your writing assignment  must be  successfully completed to pass the course.  A detailed set of instructions will  be provided and W students will be assigned a W instructor during  the first week of class.
  
'''Updated 18 March 2012''' -- There will be '''two''' review sessions for the third exam on Thursday, April 5th. They will be:<br><br> '''Monday, April 2nd, 6-8PM''' in '''BioPhysics Building Rm 131''' <br> and <br>'''Tuesday, April 3rd, 6-8PM''' in '''BioPhysics Building Rm 131'''.<br><br> Review sessions are structured to answer any questions you might have encountered while studying or going over the example exam. Please come to the review session with specific questions. If you can not attend either review session but have questions pertaining to the course material prior to the exam please contact your assigned TA to set up a time to meet.<br><br>
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'''Text:''' Futuyma, D. J. 2009.  Evolution. Second Edition.  Sinauer Publications, Sunderland, Mass. http://www.sinauer.com/detail.php?id=2238.  The UCONN coop should have lots of used copies. Please read assigned chapters prior to the class for which they are scheduled. Additional supplementary readings may be assigned during the semester.  See also new value options from Sinauer: http://www.sinauer.com/detail.php?id=2238#tions <br>
  
==Evolution in the News==
 
  
[http://www.physorg.com/news/2012-02-evolutionary.html '''Peppered moths vindicated!'''] - 28 February 2012<br>
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'''Syllabus:''' Download the PDF. The syllabus always evolves. I will periodically send updated versions which track our true progress and introduce late breaking topics. <br>
[http://blogs.nature.com/news/2012/01/darwins-long-forgetten-fossils-unearthed.html '''Darwin's long-lost fossils'''] - 17 January 2012
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==<span style="font-size: small"><font color="#FF3300">'''NEW'''</font></span> Visiting Evolutionary Biologists and Friends==
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:{{pdf|http://hydrodictyon.eeb.uconn.edu/courses/evolution/restricted/Syllabus%20EEB%202245%20F%202012%2029%20Nov%2012.rtf}}Syllabus EEB 2245 F 2012 29 Nov 12.rtf
  
[http://hydrodictyon.eeb.uconn.edu/eebedia/index.php/Visiting_Scientists_in_Evolutionary_Biology_Spring_2012 '''Our guests this semester''']<br><br>
 
  
==Lecture Syllabus==
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'''Quiz Keys:'''
'''''Please read assigned chapters, as indicated below, prior to class'''''
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:{{pdf|http://hydrodictyon.eeb.uconn.edu/courses/evolution/restricted/Quiz%201.%20%20History%2C%20Creationism.%20Key.docx}}Quiz 1. History, Creationism. Key.docx
| 1 || T || Jan 17 || Introduction to the Geological Time Scale; the Fossil Record || Ch. 4 (pgs 73-77)
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:{{pdf|http://hydrodictyon.eeb.uconn.edu/courses/evolution/restricted/Quiz%202%2C%20Fall%2012%20Key.docx}}Quiz 2, Fall 12 Key.docx
| 2 || Th || Jan 19 || Life in the Precambrian; Evolution of the Metazoa || Ch. 5 (pgs 101-108)
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:{{pdf|http://hydrodictyon.eeb.uconn.edu/courses/evolution/restricted/EEB%202245.%20Quiz%203%20F%2012%20key%20rev.docx}}Quiz 3 F 12 key rev.docx
| 3 || T || Jan 24 || Cambrian explosion & Life in the Paleozoic || Ch. 5 (pgs 108-115)
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:{{pdf|http://hydrodictyon.eeb.uconn.edu/courses/evolution/restricted/Quiz%204.%20Load%2C%20Levels%20of%20Selection%2C%20Plasticity%20key.docx}}Quiz 4. Load, Levels of Selection, Plasticity key.docx
| 4 || Th || Jan 26 || Life in the Mesozoic || Ch. 5 (pgs 115-121)
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:{{pdf|http://hydrodictyon.eeb.uconn.edu/courses/evolution/restricted/Quiz%205%2C%20F12%20EEB%202245%20key.docx}}Quiz 5, F12 EEB 2245 key.docx
| 5 || T || Jan 31 || Life in the Cenozoic || Ch. 5 (pgs 121-131)
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:{{pdf|http://hydrodictyon.eeb.uconn.edu/courses/evolution/restricted/Quiz%206%20F12%20Systematics%20%20Key.docx}}Quiz 6 F12 Systematics  Key.docx
| 6 || Th || Feb 2 || Evolution of primates || Ch. 4 (pgs 88-91) &<br> Ch. 6 (pgs 147-150)
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:{{pdf|http://hydrodictyon.eeb.uconn.edu/courses/evolution/restricted/Quiz%207%2C%20F12%2C%20Molecules%20%26%20Clocks%20key.docx}}Quiz 7, F12, Molecules & Clocks key.docx
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:{{pdf|http://hydrodictyon.eeb.uconn.edu/courses/evolution/restricted/Quiz%208.%20%20Life%20overview%2C%20Novelties%20%20Key.docx}}Quiz 8.  Life overview, Novelties  Key.docx
| 7 || T || Feb 7 || Evolution of biodiversity & extinction || Ch. 7
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:{{pdf|http://hydrodictyon.eeb.uconn.edu/courses/evolution/restricted/Quiz%209.%20novelties%2C%20fossils%20to%20permian%20Key.docx}}Quiz 9. novelties, fossils to permian Key.docx
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'''Midterm Answer Key:'''
|<span style="font-size: small"><font color="#FF3300">'''8'''</font></span>||<span style="font-size: small"><font color="#FF3300">'''Th'''</font></span>||<span style="font-size: small"><font color="#FF3300">'''Feb 9'''</font></span>||<span style="font-size: small"><font color="#FF3300">'''EXAM #1'''<br>{{pdf|http://hydrodictyon.eeb.uconn.edu/courses/evolution/restricted/Exam%20I%20S10%20version%201.pdf}} Example of Exam 1 (from 2010)</font></span><br><span style="font-size: small"><font color="#FF3300">{{pdf|http://hydrodictyon.eeb.uconn.edu/courses/evolution/restricted/Study_Guide_exam_1_2012_final.pdf}} Final Study Guide for Exam 1</font></span>||<span style="font-size: small"><font color="#FF3300">'''Covers Lectures 1-6'''</font></span>
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| 9 || T || Feb 14 || Characters, homology & homoplasy || Ch. 3
 
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| 10 || Th || Feb 16 || Systematics & reconstructing evolutionary history || Ch. 2
 
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'''Study Guides, Handouts:'''
| 11 || T || Feb 21 || Systematics & reconstructing evolutionary history (cont'd) || Ch. 2
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:{{pdf|http://hydrodictyon.eeb.uconn.edu/courses/evolution/restricted/Study%20Guide%20I%20EEB%202245%20F%2012%20.doc}}Study Guide I EEB 2245 F 12 .doc
| 12 || Th || Feb 23 || Biogeography & major patterns of distribution || Ch. 6
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:{{pdf|http://hydrodictyon.eeb.uconn.edu/courses/evolution/restricted/Darwin%20Chronology%20and%20Pus}}Darwin Chronology and Pubs (handout)
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:{{pdf|http://hydrodictyon.eeb.uconn.edu/courses/evolution/restricted/Architects%20of%20the%20Modern%20Synthesis}}Architects of the Modern Synthesis (Handout)
| 13 || T || Feb 28 || Continental drift & historical biogeography || Ch. 6
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:{{pdf|http://hydrodictyon.eeb.uconn.edu/courses/evolution/restricted/Study%20Guide%202.%20EEB%202245%20%20Fall%2012Hardy%20Weinberg.rtf}}Study Guide 2. EEB 2245 Fall 12Hardy Weinberg.rtf
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:{{pdf|http://hydrodictyon.eeb.uconn.edu/courses/evolution/restricted/Study%20Guide%203.%20EEB%202245%20%20Fall%2012%20Bottlenecks%2C%20Founders%2C%20Selection.rtf}}Study Guide 3. EEB 2245  Fall 12 Bottlenecks, Founders, Selection.rtf
| '''Part II''' || || '''Mar 6 - Apr 26''' || <span style="font-size: large">'''Processes of Evolution'''</span> || '''Dr. Charles Henry'''
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:{{pdf|http://hydrodictyon.eeb.uconn.edu/courses/evolution/restricted/Natural%20Selection%20Review%20Table.pdf}}Natural Selection Review Table.pdf
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:{{pdf|http://hydrodictyon.eeb.uconn.edu/courses/evolution/restricted/Study%20Guide%204.%20F12%20Selection%20II%20rev.doc}}Study Guide 4. F12 Selection II rev.doc
| 15 || T || Mar 6 || Populations, variation, & the Hardy-Weinberg principle
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:{{pdf|http://hydrodictyon.eeb.uconn.edu/courses/evolution/restricted/EEB2245_12_lec1_variation.pdf}} '''Populations, Variation, and H-W Lecture'''
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:{{pdf|http://hydrodictyon.eeb.uconn.edu/courses/evolution/restricted/Study%20Guide%205.%20F12%20variation%20isolation%20speciation.doc}}Study Guide 5. F12 variation isolation speciation.doc
| 16 || Th || Mar 8 || Microevolution and the origin of variation: mutation & gene flow
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:{{pdf|http://hydrodictyon.eeb.uconn.edu/courses/evolution/restricted/EEB2245_12_lec2_popgen_muta%26migra.pdf}} '''Mutation and Gene Flow (Migration) Lecture'''
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:{{pdf|http://hydrodictyon.eeb.uconn.edu/courses/evolution/restricted/Study%20Guide%206%20Hybridization.docx}}Study Guide 6 Hybridization.docx
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:{{pdf|http://hydrodictyon.eeb.uconn.edu/courses/evolution/restricted/Lect%2015.%20Handout%20Constructing%20Evolutionary%20Trees%202012.pdf}}Lect 16. Handout Constructing Evolutionary Trees 2012.pdf
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:{{pdf|http://hydrodictyon.eeb.uconn.edu/courses/evolution/restricted/Study%20Guide%207.%20Systematics.%20F%2012.pdf}}Study Guide 7. Systematics. F 12.pdf
| 17 || T || Mar 20 || Agents of evolutionary change: migration and genetic drift
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:{{pdf|http://hydrodictyon.eeb.uconn.edu/courses/evolution/restricted/EEB2245_12_lec3_genetic_drift.pdf}} '''Migration (concl.) & Genetic Drift Lecture'''
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:{{pdf|http://hydrodictyon.eeb.uconn.edu/courses/evolution/restricted/Study%20Guide%207%20answers%20systematics%20%20F%2012.rtf}}Study Guide 7 answers systematics F 12.rtf
| 18 || Th || Mar 22 || Charles Darwin and natural selection
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:{{pdf|http://hydrodictyon.eeb.uconn.edu/courses/evolution/restricted/EEB2245_12_lec4_selection1.pdf}} '''Darwin & Natural Selection Lecture, Part 1'''
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:{{pdf|http://hydrodictyon.eeb.uconn.edu/courses/evolution/restricted/Study%20Guide%208%20Clocks%2C%20Life%20F%2012.docx}}Study Guide 8 Clocks, Life F 12.docx
| 19 || T || Mar 27 || Natural selection and phenotypic evolution
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:{{pdf|http://hydrodictyon.eeb.uconn.edu/courses/evolution/restricted/EEB2245_12_lec5_selection2.pdf}} '''Natural Selection Lecture, Part 2'''
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:{{pdf|http://hydrodictyon.eeb.uconn.edu/courses/evolution/restricted/Study%20Guide%209%2C%20F12%2C%20Novelties.docx}}Study Guide 9, F12, Novelties.docx
| 20 || Th || Mar 29 || Adaptation; introduction to life-history evolution
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:{{pdf|http://hydrodictyon.eeb.uconn.edu/courses/evolution/restricted/EEB2245_12_lec6_adaptation.pdf}} '''Adaptation & Life History Lecture, Part 1'''
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:{{pdf|http://hydrodictyon.eeb.uconn.edu/courses/evolution/restricted/Study%20Guide%20Lect%2021%20Paleozoic%20F%2012.rtf}}Study Guide 10, Fossil Overview & Paleozoic F 12.rtf
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:{{pdf|http://hydrodictyon.eeb.uconn.edu/courses/evolution/restricted/Study%20Guide%2011.%20Mesozoic%20%20F%2012.rtf}}Study Guide 11. Mesozoic F 12.rtf
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:{{pdf|http://hydrodictyon.eeb.uconn.edu/courses/evolution/restricted/EEB2245_12_lec7_lifehistory.pdf}} '''Life History Evolution, Part 2'''
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:{{pdf|http://hydrodictyon.eeb.uconn.edu/courses/evolution/restricted/Study%20Guide%2012.%20Cenozoic%20and%20Fossil%20Record%20Summary%20F12.doc}}Study Guide 12. Cenozoic and Fossil Record Summary F12.doc
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:{{pdf|http://hydrodictyon.eeb.uconn.edu/courses/evolution/restricted/Study%20guide%2013.%20Human%20Evolution%20Biodiversity%20Biogeography.rtf}}Study guide 13. Human Evolution Biodiversity Biogeography.rtf
| <span style="font-size: small"><font color="#FF3300">'''22'''</font></span> || <span style="font-size: small"><font color="#FF3300">'''Th'''</font></span> || <span style="font-size: small"><font color="#FF3300">'''Apr 5'''</font></span> || <span style="font-size: small"><font color="#FF3300">'''EXAM #3'''</font></span><span style="font-size: small"><font color="#FF3300"><br><span style="font-size: small"><font color="#FF3300">'''You may bring a calculator (NO iphone/smartphone)'''</font></span><br><span style="font-size: small"><font color="#FF3300">{{pdf|http://hydrodictyon.eeb.uconn.edu/courses/evolution/restricted/Exam_Studyguide1_Henry_2245.pdf}} FINAL Study Guide for Exam 3 (first 7 lectures) </font></span><span style="font-size: small"><font color="#FF3300"><br>|| <span style="font-size: small"><font color="#FF3300">'''Covers Lectures 15-21'''</font></span>
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:{{pdf|http://hydrodictyon.eeb.uconn.edu/courses/evolution/restricted/EEB2245_12_lec8_sex%26sexselec.pdf}} '''Sexual Selection Lecture'''
 
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:{{pdf|http://hydrodictyon.eeb.uconn.edu/courses/evolution/restricted/EEB%202245%20Lecture%201%202012.pdf}}EEB 2245 Lect. 1 Intro (four per page) 2012.pdf
| 24 || Th || Apr 12 || Levels of selection; cooperation & altruism
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:{{pdf|http://hydrodictyon.eeb.uconn.edu/courses/evolution/restricted/EEB2245_12_lec9_levels%26cooperation.pdf}} '''Multi-level Selection Lecture'''
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|| Ch. 11 & 16
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:{{pdf|http://hydrodictyon.eeb.uconn.edu/courses/evolution/restricted/EEB%202245%20Lecture%201%202012%20-%20lines%20for%20notes.pdf}}EEB 2245 Lect. 1 Intro 2012 (with lines).pdf
| 25 || T || Apr 17 || Macroevolution: species and species concepts
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:{{pdf|http://hydrodictyon.eeb.uconn.edu/courses/evolution/restricted/EEB2245_12_lec10_species.pdf}} '''Species and Species Concepts Lecture'''
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|| Ch. 17 & 18
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:{{pdf|http://hydrodictyon.eeb.uconn.edu/courses/evolution/restricted/EEB%202245%20Lecture%202%202012%20-%20lines%20for%20notes.pdf}}EEB 2245 Lec. 2 Evidence 2012 (with lines).pdf
| 26 || Th || Apr 19 || Ecotypes, clines, and allopatric speciation
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:{{pdf|http://hydrodictyon.eeb.uconn.edu/courses/evolution/restricted/EEB2245_12_lec11_speciation1.pdf}} '''Lecture on Speciation, Part 1'''
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|| Ch. 17 & 18
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:{{pdf|http://hydrodictyon.eeb.uconn.edu/courses/evolution/restricted/EEB%202245%20Lecture%203%202012%20%28with%20lines%29.pdf}}EEB 2245 Lect. 3 History 2012 (with lines).pdf
| 27 || T || Apr 24 || Allopatric & non-allopatric speciation
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:{{pdf|http://hydrodictyon.eeb.uconn.edu/courses/evolution/restricted/EEB2245_12_lec12_speciation2.pdf}} '''Lecture on Speciation, Part 2'''
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:{{pdf|http://hydrodictyon.eeb.uconn.edu/courses/evolution/restricted/Lect%203.%20History%20%286%20per%20page%29%20EEB2245.pdf}}EEB 2245 Lect 3. History (6 per page) EEB2245.pdf
| 28 || Th || Apr 26 || The mystery of sexual reproduction; coevolution
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:{{pdf|http://hydrodictyon.eeb.uconn.edu/courses/evolution/restricted/EEB2245_12_lec13_sex%26coevol.pdf}} '''Sexual Reproduction and Coevolution Lecture'''
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:{{pdf|http://hydrodictyon.eeb.uconn.edu/courses/evolution/restricted/Lecture%204.%20Population%20Biology%2C%20HW.pdf}} EEB 2245 Lect. 4. Population Biology, HW (4 per page).pdf
| || '''''M''''' || '''''Apr 30''''' || '''''Review Session for Final Exam <br>6-8 PM''''' || '''''BioPhysics Building Rm 131'''''
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:{{pdf|http://hydrodictyon.eeb.uconn.edu/courses/evolution/restricted/EEB%202245%20Lecture%204%202012%20%28with%20lines%29.pdf}}EEB 2245 Lect. 4 Population Biology 2012 (with lines).pdf
|  || '''''T''''' || '''''May 1''''' || '''''Review Session for Final Exam <br>6-8 PM''''' || '''''BioPhysics Building Rm 131'''''
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:{{pdf|http://hydrodictyon.eeb.uconn.edu/courses/evolution/restricted/Lecture%205.%20%20Deviations%20from%20HW%20F12.pdf}}EEB 2245 Lect. 5.  Deviations from HW F12.pdf
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:{{pdf|http://hydrodictyon.eeb.uconn.edu/courses/evolution/restricted/EEB%202245%20Lect%206.%20H-W%20selection%2C%20%20Inbreeding%20%26%20Drift%20Geneflow.pdf}}EEB 2245 Lect 6. H-W selection,  Inbreeding & Drift Geneflow.pdf
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:{{pdf|http://hydrodictyon.eeb.uconn.edu/courses/evolution/restricted/EEB%202245%20Lecture%205%202012%20%28with%20lines%29.pdf}}EEB 2245 Lecture 5 2012 (with lines).pdf
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:{{pdf|http://hydrodictyon.eeb.uconn.edu/courses/evolution/restricted/EEB%202245%20Lecture%206%20%28with%20lines%29.pdf}}EEB 2245 Lect. 6 (with lines).pdf
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:{{pdf|http://hydrodictyon.eeb.uconn.edu/courses/evolution/restricted/EEB%202245%20Lect%207.%20Inbreeding%2C%20gene%20flow%2C%20selection.pdf}}EEB 2245 Lect 7. Inbreeding, gene flow, selection.pdf
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:{{pdf|http://hydrodictyon.eeb.uconn.edu/courses/evolution/restricted/EEB%202245%20Lecture%207%202012%20%28with%20lines%29.pdf}}EEB 2245 Lect. 7 2012 (with lines).pdf
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:{{pdf|http://hydrodictyon.eeb.uconn.edu/courses/evolution/restricted/EEB%202245%20Lect.%208.%20%20Selection%20I%20revised%20F12.pdf}}EEB 2245 Lect. 8.  Selection I revised F12.pdf
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:{{pdf|http://hydrodictyon.eeb.uconn.edu/courses/evolution/restricted/Lect.%209.%20%20Natural%20Selection%20II%20%20F12.pdf}}EEB 2245 Lect. 9. Natural Selection II plasticity coevolution F12.pdf
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:{{pdf|http://hydrodictyon.eeb.uconn.edu/courses/evolution/restricted/9-25%20lecture.pdf}}EEB 2245 Lect. 9. (with lines).pdf
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:{{pdf|http://hydrodictyon.eeb.uconn.edu/courses/evolution/restricted/Lect.%2010.%20Geographic%20Variation.pdf}}EEB 2245 Lect. 10. Load, Geographic Variation.pdf
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:{{pdf|http://hydrodictyon.eeb.uconn.edu/courses/evolution/restricted/Lecture%2010%20%28with%20lines%29.pdf}}Lecture 10 (with lines).pdf
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:{{pdf|http://hydrodictyon.eeb.uconn.edu/courses/evolution/restricted/Lect.%2011%20%20Factors%20reducing%20geneflow%20F%2012.%20Speciation.pdf}}EEB 2245 Lect. 11 Geog. Var. (cont) Factors reducing geneflow.pdf
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:{{pdf|http://hydrodictyon.eeb.uconn.edu/courses/evolution/restricted/EEB%202245%20Lect.%2012%20Isolation%2C%20species%20concepts.pdf}}EEB 2245 Lect. 12 Isolation, species concepts.pdf
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:{{pdf|http://hydrodictyon.eeb.uconn.edu/courses/evolution/restricted/Lect.%2013.%20Speciation%20Mechanisms.pdf}}EEB 2245 Lect. 13. Speciation Mechanisms.pdf
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:{{pdf|http://hydrodictyon.eeb.uconn.edu/courses/evolution/restricted/Lect%2014.%20Hybridization.pdf}}EEB 2245 Lect 14. Hybridization.pdf
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:{{pdf|http://hydrodictyon.eeb.uconn.edu/courses/evolution/restricted/Lecture%2014%20%28with%20lines%29.pdf}}Lecture 14 (with lines).pdf
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:{{pdf|http://hydrodictyon.eeb.uconn.edu/courses/evolution/restricted/Lect.%2015.%20Systematics%20EEB%202245%20F%202012.pdf}}Lect. 15. Systematics EEB 2245 F 2012.pdf
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:{{pdf|http://hydrodictyon.eeb.uconn.edu/courses/evolution/restricted/Lect.%2016%20F12%20Building%20Trees%2023Oct12.pdf}}Lect. 16 F12 Building Trees 23Oct12.pdf
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:{{pdf|http://hydrodictyon.eeb.uconn.edu/courses/evolution/restricted/Lecture%2016.pdf}}Lecture 16 (with lines).pdf
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:{{pdf|http://hydrodictyon.eeb.uconn.edu/courses/evolution/restricted/Lect.%2017%20F12%20Building%20Trees%20Morph.%20Molec.%20Evolution%20Rev%20F12.pdf}}Lect. 17 F12 Building Trees Morph. Molec. Evolution Rev F12.pdf
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:{{pdf|http://hydrodictyon.eeb.uconn.edu/courses/evolution/restricted/Lect%2020.%20Part%20I.%20Evolutionary%20Novelties%20F%2012.pdf}}Lect 20. Part I. Evolutionary Novelties F 12.pdf
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==Evolution in the News, Scientific Literature, and You Tube==
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[http://www.sheffield.ac.uk/news/nr/family-tree-birds-evolution-sheffield-university-1.220940?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social%2Bmedia&utm_content=famiy-tree-birds&utm_campaign=generic '''Bird Tree of Life''']- 30 Oct 2012
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[http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=9GgAbyYDFeg '''Watch your back mate! Courtship of peacock spider <i> Maratus volans </i> from Australia''']- 23 Mar 2011
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[http://www.npr.org/2012/09/26/161817096/mammalian-surprise-african-mouse-can-regrow-skin '''African mouse sheds patches of skin and hair to escape predators''']- 26 Sep 2012
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[http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2012/09/13/161097374/monkey-new-to-science-found-in-central-africa?ps=rec&ec=mostpopularnews'''Cool Looking Monkey New to Science Found in Congo''']- 14 Sep 12
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[http://www.physorg.com/news/2012-02-evolutionary.html '''Peppered moths vindicated!'''] - 28 February 2012<br>
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[http://blogs.nature.com/news/2012/01/darwins-long-forgetten-fossils-unearthed.html '''Darwin's long-lost fossils'''] - 17 January 2012
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[http://simbio.com/blog/post/a-case-suspended-animation'''H1N1- A case of suspended animation''']- 29 Aug 2012 
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Tool use evolution
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[http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1046/j.1461-0248.2002.00370.x/full'''Tool Use Evolution''']- Sept 2002
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“Tool-use is commonly attributed to humans and other primates. However, several bird species are also known to use tools habitually. Egyptian vultures (Neophron percnopterus) are famous for dropping stones on ostrich eggs (Van Lawick-Goodall & Van Lawick-Goodall 1966), green-backed herons (Butroides striatus) use bait to catch fish (Walsh et al. 1985), satin bower birds (Ptilonorhynchus violaecus) use bark-wads to paint their bower (Chaffer 1945), and New Caledonian crows (Corvus moneduloides) make and use two forms of tools to capture prey (Hunt 1996). The woodpecker finch (Cactospiza pallida), one of 15 species of Darwin's Finches, is perhaps the most famous example of a tool-using bird. It uses twigs or cactus spines to pry arthropods from tree-holes and crevices (Eibl-Eibesfeldt 1961; Eibl-Eibesfeldt & Sielman 1962)…. social learning is not an important mechanism in the acquisition of tool-use in the woodpecker finch (Tebbich et al. 2001).”
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| 29 ||<span style="font-size: small"><font color="#FF3300"> '''Th'''</font></span> || <span style="font-size: small"><font color="#FF3300">'''May 3, 8 AM - 10AM'''<br></font></span> || <span style="font-size: small"><font color="#FF3300">'''FINAL EXAM'''</font></span><span style="font-size: small"><font color="#FF3300"><br><span style="font-size: small"><font color="#FF3300">'''NO calculators, NO iphone/smartphone'''</font></span><br><span style="font-size: small"><font color="#FF3300">:{{pdf|http://hydrodictyon.eeb.uconn.edu/courses/evolution/restricted/Exam_Studyguide_2245_final_exam.pdf}} FINAL Study Guide for Exam 4 (last 6 lectures) </font></span><span style="font-size: small"><font color="#FF3300"><br>|| <span style="font-size: small"><font color="#FF3300">'''Covers Lectures 23-28'''</font></span>
 
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EEB 2245: Evolutionary Biology


Meeting Time: Tuesdays and Thursdays, 12:30-1:45 in UTEB 150

Instructor: Chris Simon, Professor EEB, Office: Biopharm 305D, phone 6-4640, Lab: Biopharm 323 & 325, phone 6-3947;
e-mail: chris.simon@uconn.edu [e-mail is the best place to leave messages.]

Office hours: Flexible except in the morning before our class. See me after class or send me an e-mail to arrange a meeting. I encourage quick questions by electronic mail. With longer questions or many questions, please come to see me or your TA, Colin Carlson. Don’t wait until the day before an exam!

Teaching Assistant: Colin Carlson, e-mail: colin.carlson@uconn.edu

Class Website: http://hydrodictyon.eeb.uconn.edu/eebedia/index.php/Category:EEB_Courses

Grade: The goal of this class is to teach you the basic principles of evolution and to give you an appreciation for the science. It is important to me that you learn the material. I hate to assign grades but they are required. Therefore I am trying an experiment this semester to try to lessen the pressure on the midterm and enhance your learning experience. Each Friday I will post a Study Guide. Each Wednesday, TA Colin Carlson will host a study guide review session. Each Thursday at the end of class, as a quiz, I will ask you a few questions from that study guide. We’ll grade the quizzes and return them to you by the following Thursday. Hopefully these quizzes will serve to prepare you for the first midterm and to ensure that your grade is not based on your performance on only the midterm and the final.

EEB 245: There will be a series of ten quizzes (as described above) and two one-hour exams covering each half of the course (listed on the syllabus) and a comprehensive one-hour synthetic final exam. The second one-hour exam will be given in the same two-hour time block as the synthetic final. The quizzes will count 10% of your total grade, the first exam 40% and the second hour exam plus the final will count 25% each.

EEB 245W: If you are registered for EEB 245W, 75% of the final course grade will be determined by your lecture exams (as above) and 25% by your term paper. As required by University regulations, an F in the W part of the course will result in an F for the entire course. At least two drafts of your writing assignment must be successfully completed to pass the course. A detailed set of instructions will be provided and W students will be assigned a W instructor during the first week of class.

Text: Futuyma, D. J. 2009. Evolution. Second Edition. Sinauer Publications, Sunderland, Mass. http://www.sinauer.com/detail.php?id=2238. The UCONN coop should have lots of used copies. Please read assigned chapters prior to the class for which they are scheduled. Additional supplementary readings may be assigned during the semester. See also new value options from Sinauer: http://www.sinauer.com/detail.php?id=2238#tions


Syllabus: Download the PDF. The syllabus always evolves. I will periodically send updated versions which track our true progress and introduce late breaking topics.

Pdficon small.gifSyllabus EEB 2245 F 2012 29 Nov 12.rtf


Quiz Keys:

Pdficon small.gifQuiz 1. History, Creationism. Key.docx
Pdficon small.gifQuiz 2, Fall 12 Key.docx
Pdficon small.gifQuiz 3 F 12 key rev.docx
Pdficon small.gifQuiz 4. Load, Levels of Selection, Plasticity key.docx
Pdficon small.gifQuiz 5, F12 EEB 2245 key.docx
Pdficon small.gifQuiz 6 F12 Systematics Key.docx
Pdficon small.gifQuiz 7, F12, Molecules & Clocks key.docx
Pdficon small.gifQuiz 8. Life overview, Novelties Key.docx
Pdficon small.gifQuiz 9. novelties, fossils to permian Key.docx

Midterm Answer Key:


Study Guides, Handouts:

Pdficon small.gifStudy Guide I EEB 2245 F 12 .doc
Pdficon small.gifDarwin Chronology and Pubs (handout)
Pdficon small.gifArchitects of the Modern Synthesis (Handout)
Pdficon small.gifStudy Guide 2. EEB 2245 Fall 12Hardy Weinberg.rtf
Pdficon small.gifStudy Guide 3. EEB 2245 Fall 12 Bottlenecks, Founders, Selection.rtf
Pdficon small.gifNatural Selection Review Table.pdf
Pdficon small.gifStudy Guide 4. F12 Selection II rev.doc
Pdficon small.gifStudy Guide 5. F12 variation isolation speciation.doc
Pdficon small.gifStudy Guide 6 Hybridization.docx
Pdficon small.gifLect 16. Handout Constructing Evolutionary Trees 2012.pdf
Pdficon small.gifStudy Guide 7. Systematics. F 12.pdf
Pdficon small.gifStudy Guide 7 answers systematics F 12.rtf
Pdficon small.gifStudy Guide 8 Clocks, Life F 12.docx
Pdficon small.gifStudy Guide 9, F12, Novelties.docx
Pdficon small.gifStudy Guide 10, Fossil Overview & Paleozoic F 12.rtf
Pdficon small.gifStudy Guide 11. Mesozoic F 12.rtf
Pdficon small.gifStudy Guide 12. Cenozoic and Fossil Record Summary F12.doc
Pdficon small.gifStudy guide 13. Human Evolution Biodiversity Biogeography.rtf


Lecture notes:

Pdficon small.gifEEB 2245 Lect. 1 Intro (four per page) 2012.pdf
Pdficon small.gifEEB 2245 Lect. 1 Intro 2012 (with lines).pdf
Pdficon small.gifEEB 2245 Lec. 2 Evidence 2012 (with lines).pdf
Pdficon small.gifEEB 2245 Lect. 3 History 2012 (with lines).pdf
Pdficon small.gifEEB 2245 Lect 3. History (6 per page) EEB2245.pdf
Pdficon small.gif EEB 2245 Lect. 4. Population Biology, HW (4 per page).pdf
Pdficon small.gifEEB 2245 Lect. 4 Population Biology 2012 (with lines).pdf
Pdficon small.gifEEB 2245 Lect. 5. Deviations from HW F12.pdf
Pdficon small.gifEEB 2245 Lect 6. H-W selection, Inbreeding & Drift Geneflow.pdf
Pdficon small.gifEEB 2245 Lecture 5 2012 (with lines).pdf
Pdficon small.gifEEB 2245 Lect. 6 (with lines).pdf
Pdficon small.gifEEB 2245 Lect 7. Inbreeding, gene flow, selection.pdf
Pdficon small.gifEEB 2245 Lect. 7 2012 (with lines).pdf
Pdficon small.gifEEB 2245 Lect. 8. Selection I revised F12.pdf
Pdficon small.gifEEB 2245 Lect. 9. Natural Selection II plasticity coevolution F12.pdf
Pdficon small.gifEEB 2245 Lect. 9. (with lines).pdf
Pdficon small.gifEEB 2245 Lect. 10. Load, Geographic Variation.pdf
Pdficon small.gifLecture 10 (with lines).pdf
Pdficon small.gifEEB 2245 Lect. 11 Geog. Var. (cont) Factors reducing geneflow.pdf
Pdficon small.gifLecture 11 (with lines).pdf
Pdficon small.gifEEB 2245 Lect. 12 Isolation, species concepts.pdf
Pdficon small.gifLecture 12 (with lines).pdf
Pdficon small.gifEEB 2245 Lect. 13. Speciation Mechanisms.pdf
Pdficon small.gifLecture 13 (with lines).pdf
Pdficon small.gifEEB 2245 Lect 14. Hybridization.pdf
Pdficon small.gifLecture 14 (with lines).pdf
Pdficon small.gifLect. 15. Systematics EEB 2245 F 2012.pdf
Pdficon small.gifLect. 16 F12 Building Trees 23Oct12.pdf
Pdficon small.gifLecture 16 (with lines).pdf
Pdficon small.gifLect. 17 F12 Building Trees Morph. Molec. Evolution Rev F12.pdf
Pdficon small.gifLecture 18 with lines.pdf
Pdficon small.gifEEB 2245 Lect 19. pt 1. Overview of life.pdf
Pdficon small.gifEEB 2245 Lect. 19 pt 2, Overview of life.pdf
Pdficon small.gifLect 20. Part I. Evolutionary Novelties F 12.pdf
Pdficon small.gifLect 20. Part 2. Evolutionary Novelties F 12-2.pdf
Pdficon small.gifLecture 21. Novelties Fossil overview F12.pdf
Pdficon small.gifLect. 22. Paleozoic F12.pdf
Pdficon small.gifLect. 23. Mesozoic Part 1 F12.pdf
Pdficon small.gif Lect. 23. Part 2. Mesozoic F12.pdf
Pdficon small.gifLect. 24. Cenozoic (Paleocene-Eocene) 29 Nov F12-2.pdf
Pdficon small.gifLect. 25. Cenozoic & Human Evolution Part 1.pdf
Pdficon small.gifLect. 25. Part 2 Cenozoic & Human Evolution.pdf
Pdficon small.gifLecture 25.& 26. Human Evolution.pdf
Pdficon small.gifLect 26 Biodiversity & Biogeography F12.pdf


Evolution in the News, Scientific Literature, and You Tube

Bird Tree of Life- 30 Oct 2012

Watch your back mate! Courtship of peacock spider Maratus volans from Australia- 23 Mar 2011

African mouse sheds patches of skin and hair to escape predators- 26 Sep 2012

Cool Looking Monkey New to Science Found in Congo- 14 Sep 12

Peppered moths vindicated! - 28 February 2012
Darwin's long-lost fossils - 17 January 2012

H1N1- A case of suspended animation- 29 Aug 2012

Tool use evolution

Tool Use Evolution- Sept 2002

“Tool-use is commonly attributed to humans and other primates. However, several bird species are also known to use tools habitually. Egyptian vultures (Neophron percnopterus) are famous for dropping stones on ostrich eggs (Van Lawick-Goodall & Van Lawick-Goodall 1966), green-backed herons (Butroides striatus) use bait to catch fish (Walsh et al. 1985), satin bower birds (Ptilonorhynchus violaecus) use bark-wads to paint their bower (Chaffer 1945), and New Caledonian crows (Corvus moneduloides) make and use two forms of tools to capture prey (Hunt 1996). The woodpecker finch (Cactospiza pallida), one of 15 species of Darwin's Finches, is perhaps the most famous example of a tool-using bird. It uses twigs or cactus spines to pry arthropods from tree-holes and crevices (Eibl-Eibesfeldt 1961; Eibl-Eibesfeldt & Sielman 1962)…. social learning is not an important mechanism in the acquisition of tool-use in the woodpecker finch (Tebbich et al. 2001).”