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− | <font color="#CC0000">'''*NOTE* SECOND EXAM: The second exam will be on '''''Thursday Mar. 6th'''''. The exam will be based on material covered from Feb. 11th through Mar. 27th (see syllabus below). | + | <font color="#CC0000">'''*NOTE* SECOND EXAM: The second exam will be on '''''Thursday Mar. 6th'''''. The exam will be based on material covered from Feb. 11th through Mar. 27th (see syllabus below). </font color="#CC0000"><br/><br/> |
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:{{pdf|http://hydrodictyon.eeb.uconn.edu/eebedia/index.php/File:Tree_exercises_EEB2245%26WS2014.pdf}} PROBLEM SET | :{{pdf|http://hydrodictyon.eeb.uconn.edu/eebedia/index.php/File:Tree_exercises_EEB2245%26WS2014.pdf}} PROBLEM SET |
Revision as of 00:19, 28 February 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)
This website contains information for the lecture portion of the course only. For the W portion of the course, click here
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: TLS 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
Exam Resources
*NOTE* SECOND EXAM: The second exam will be on Thursday Mar. 6th. The exam will be based on material covered from Feb. 11th through Mar. 27th (see syllabus below).
Review sessions will be held on Monday Mar. 3rd (BPB 131), and Tuesday Mar. 4th (PB 38) from 7-9 PM. Please attempt the problem set (see below) before attending one of these sessions.
PROBLEM SET
STUDY GUIDES
PRACTICE EXAMS
Evolution in the News
Lecture Syllabus
Please read assigned chapters, as indicated below, prior to class
Day | Date | Topic | Text Readings | |
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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 125-132) |
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 |
T | Mar 18 | SPRING BREAK- no class |
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Th | Mar 20 | SPRING BREAK- no class |
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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) |