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| '''Part I''' || ||'''Jan 22 - Mar 7''' || <span style="font-size: large">'''Processes of Evolution'''</span> || '''Dr. Charles Henry''' | | '''Part I''' || ||'''Jan 22 - Mar 7''' || <span style="font-size: large">'''Processes of Evolution'''</span> || '''Dr. Charles Henry''' | ||
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− | | 15 || T || Mar 12 || Systematics: | + | | 15 || T || Mar 12 || Systematics: Tree-thinking, phylogeny, polymorphism, & homoplasy || Ch. 2 & 3 |
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| <span style="font-size: small"><font color="#FF3300">'''28'''</font></span> ||<span style="font-size: small"><font color="#FF3300">'''Th''' </font></span>||<span style="font-size: small"><font color="#FF3300"> '''May 2''' </font></span>|| <span style="font-size: small"><font color="#FF3300">'''EXAM #4'''</font></span><span style="font-size: small"><font color="#FF3300"><br><span style="font-size: small"><font color="#FF3300">{{pdf|http://hydrodictyon.eeb.uconn.edu/courses/evolution/restricted/Exam%202%20S2010.pdf}} Example of Exam 4 (from 2012)</font></span><span style="font-size: small"><font color="#FF3300"><br>{{pdf|http://hydrodictyon.eeb.uconn.edu/courses/evolution/restricted/Study%20Guide%20Exam%202_2012_final.pdf}} Study Guide for Exam 4</font></span><br><span style="font-size: small"><font color="#FF3300">|| <span style="font-size: small"><font color="#FF3300">'''Covers Lectures 19-24'''</font></span> | | <span style="font-size: small"><font color="#FF3300">'''28'''</font></span> ||<span style="font-size: small"><font color="#FF3300">'''Th''' </font></span>||<span style="font-size: small"><font color="#FF3300"> '''May 2''' </font></span>|| <span style="font-size: small"><font color="#FF3300">'''EXAM #4'''</font></span><span style="font-size: small"><font color="#FF3300"><br><span style="font-size: small"><font color="#FF3300">{{pdf|http://hydrodictyon.eeb.uconn.edu/courses/evolution/restricted/Exam%202%20S2010.pdf}} Example of Exam 4 (from 2012)</font></span><span style="font-size: small"><font color="#FF3300"><br>{{pdf|http://hydrodictyon.eeb.uconn.edu/courses/evolution/restricted/Study%20Guide%20Exam%202_2012_final.pdf}} Study Guide for Exam 4</font></span><br><span style="font-size: small"><font color="#FF3300">|| <span style="font-size: small"><font color="#FF3300">'''Covers Lectures 19-24'''</font></span> | ||
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Revision as of 00:56, 9 January 2013
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
First half of the course, 22 January - 7 March
Dr. Charles Henry
Office: TLS 479/481
Phone: 486-4450
E-mail: charles.henry@uconn.edu
Office hours: By arrangement
Second half of the course, 12 March - 2 May
Dr. Chris Simon
Office: BioPharm 305D
Phone: 486-4640
Email: chris.simon@uconn.edu
Office hours: By arrangement
Teaching Assistants
Geert Goemans
Office: BioPharm 323
Phone: 486-3947
Email: geert.goemans@uconn.edu
Students A-K
Office hours: By arrangement
Brigette Zacharczenko
Office: TLS 471
Phone: 486-5503
Email: brigette.zacharczenko@uconn.edu
Students L-Z
Office hours: By arrangement
Grading
EEB 2245: Your grade will be based on your performance in 4 lecture exams and a 1-hour final exam (cumulative). Your lowest score on the 4 lecture exams will be dropped. Your 3 remaining scores and your score on the final exam will each constitute one quarter 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. 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. Kristina Hurme (TLS 379A; tel: 486-5434; kristiina.hurme@uconn.edu) is the coordinator of the W part of the course.
Course Resources
Review Sessions
Evolution in the News
Lecture Syllabus
Please read assigned chapters, as indicated below, prior to class