Evolution

PREREQUISITES: BIOL-UA 0021 OR BIOL-SHU 21 OR (SCIEN-AD 113 AND SCIEN-AD 114)

BIOL-UA 58 IS ONLY OPEN TO BIOLOGY, ECOLOGY/BIOLOGY & GPH/BIOLOGY MAJORS FOR TH FIRST WEEK OF REGISTRATION. ALL OTHERS CAN REGISTER ON THE 2ND WEEK.

Introductory course covering a broad range of topics in modern evolutionary thought and practice, including ecological context of evolutionary change, interpretation of the fossil record, patterns of extinctions, speciations and biogeographic distributions, genetic variation and population structure, natural selection and adaptations, reconstruction of evolutionary history and phylogeny, molecular evolution, evolutionary novelties and the evolution of developmental systems, and human evolution and social issues.