PrinciplesofEvolutionFall2016

TentativeSchedule

Week Dates

Lecture Topics

Readings in Bergstrom Assignments due on

& Dugatkin
Wednesday by
11:59pm

8/29 Overview of Evolution

Chapter 1 & 2

Self check quiz, lecture

workshop

9/5

Chapter 3 & 19

Self check quiz, lecture

workshop

9/12 Tree of Life: Classification

and Phylogeny

Chapter 4

Self check quiz, lecture

workshop, Start
SimUText Workbook
and Discussion Board
with Peers

9/19 Creating Phylogenetic Trees Chapter 5

Self check quiz, lecture

workshop, Finish
SimUText Workbook
and Discussion Board
with Peers

9/26 Species & Speciation

Chapter 14

Self check quiz, lecture

workshop

10/3 Midterm Exam

Covers weeks 1-4

10/10 The Origin and Evolution of Chapter 11

Early Life

Self check quiz, lecture

workshop

10/17 Evolution and Development Chapter 13

Self check quiz, lecture

workshop

10/24 Extinction and Evolutionary Chapter 15

Trends

Self check quiz, lecture

workshop

10

10/31 Evolution of Sex & Sexual

Selection

Chapter 16 & 17

Self check quiz, lecture

workshop

11

11/7 Midterm Exam

Covers weeks 5,7,8,9

Natural Selection &

Coevolution


PrinciplesofEvolutionFall2016
TentativeSchedule
12

11/14 Evolution of Sociality

Chapter 18

Self check quiz, lecture

workshop

13

11/21 Genetics of Populations

Chapter 6 & 7

Self check quiz, lecture

workshop

14

11/28 Evolution in Finite

Populations

Chapter 8

Self check quiz, lecture

workshop

15

12/5 SimUText Bottlenecked

Ferrets

16

12/12 Final Exam

SimUText Workbook
and Discussion Board
with Peers
Covers Weeks 10-14