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==Lecture Syllabus== | ==Lecture Syllabus== |
Revision as of 20:25, 17 January 2012
EEB 2245
Evolutionary Biology
Meeting Time: Tuesdays and Thursdays, 9:30-10:45 in TLS154
Textbook: Futuyma, D.J. 2009. Evolution. 2nd ed. Sinauer Associates, Inc. (ISBN 978-0-87893-223-8)
Contents
Instructors
Dr. Janine N. Caira
Office: TLS 483
Phone: 486-4060
E-mail: janine.caira@uconn.edu
Office hours: By arrangement
Dr. Charles Henry
Office: TLS 479/481
Phone: 486-4450
Email: charles.henry@uconn.edu
Office hours: By arrangement
Teaching Assistants
Beth Timpe
Office: BioPharm 318
Phone: 486-6215
Email: elizabeth.timpe@uconn.edu
Students A-K
Office hours: By arrangement
Kathryn Rymsza
Office: Biopharm 405
Phone: 486-4027
Email: kathryn.rymsza@uconn.edu
Students L-Z
Office hours: By arrangement
Grading
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.
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. 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 2245W website 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
Darwin's long-lost fossils - 17 January 2012
Lecture Syllabus
Please read assigned chapters, as indicated below, prior to class
Day | Date | Topic | Text Readings | |
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Part I | Jan 17 - Mar 1 | Patterns of Evolution | Dr. Janine Caira | |
1 | T | Jan 17 | Introduction to the Geological Time Scale; the Fossil Record | Ch. 4 (pgs 73-77) |
2 | Th | Jan 19 | Life in the Precambrian; Evolution of the Metazoa | Ch. 5 (pgs 101-108) |
3 | T | Jan 24 | Cambrian explosion & Life in the Paleozoic | Ch. 5 (pgs 108-115) |
4 | Th | Jan 26 | Life in the Mesozoic | Ch. 5 (pgs 115-121) |
5 | T | Jan 31 | Life in the Cenozoic | Ch. 5 (pgs 121-131) |
6 | Th | Feb 2 | Evolution of primates | Ch. 4 (pgs 88-91) & Ch. 6 (pgs 147-150) |
7 | T | Feb 7 | Evolution of biodiversity & extinction | Ch. 7 |
8 | Th | Feb 9 | EXAM 1 | Covers Lectures 1-6 |
9 | T | Feb 14 | Characters, homology & homoplasy | Ch. 3 |
10 | Th | Feb 16 | Systematics & reconstructing evolutionary history | Ch. 2 |
11 | T | Feb 21 | Evolution and development | Ch. 21 |
12 | Th | Feb 23 | Biogeography & major patterns of distribution | Ch. 6 |
13 | T | Feb 28 | Continental drift & historical biogeography | Ch. 6 |
Part II | Mar 6 - Apr 26 | Processes of Evolution | Dr. Charles Henry | |
14 | Th | Mar 1 | Exam #2 | Covers Lectures 7 & 9-13 |
15 | T | Mar 6 | Populations, variation, & the Hardy-Weinberg principle | Ch. 1 (pgs 7-11) & Ch. 9 |
16 | Th | Mar 8 | Microevolution and the origin of variation: mutation | Ch. 8 |
T | Mar 13 | SPRING BREAK - no class | ||
Th | Mar 15 | SPRING BREAK - no class | ||
17 | T | Mar 20 | Agents of evolutionary change: migration and genetic drift | Ch. 9 & 10 |
18 | Th | Mar 22 | Charles Darwin and natural selection | Ch. 1 & 11 |
19 | T | Mar 27 | Natural selection and the genetics of natural selection | Ch. 11 & 12 |
20 | Th | Mar 29 | Adaptation; life-history evolution | Ch. 14 |
21 | T | Apr 3 | Sexual selection | Ch. 15 |
22 | Th | Apr 5 | EXAM #3 | Covers Lectures 15-21 |
23 | T | Apr 10 | Levels of selection and conflict between levels | Ch. 16 |
24 | Th | Apr 12 | Cooperation, altruism and sociality | Ch. 16 |
25 | T | Apr 17 | Macroevolution: speciation and species concepts | Ch. 17 & 18 |
26 | Th | Apr 19 | Ecotypes, clines, and allopatric speciation | Ch. 17 & 18 |
27 | T | Apr 24 | Allopatric & non-allopatric speciation | Ch. 18 |
28 | Th | Apr 26 | Evolution above the species level | Ch. 22 |
Th | May 3 | FINAL | Covers Lectures 23-28 |