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BIO 345 — Evolution Updated 11 December 2024

Course Information

Description: Processes of adaptive change and speciation in sexual populations. Prerequisites: C or better in BIO340 or LSC 347/348 and in CHM 115 or 116

Current Section:
Lecture: MW 3:00-4:15 — CLCC 104

The Instructor: Udo M. Savalli

Text: C.T. Bergstrom & L.A. Dugatkin 2023. Evolution, 3rd ed. Norton.

Announcements & Upcoming

Dec 11 — In-person Office Hours: 3:00 - 5:00 pm (also via Zoom)
Dec 12 — In-person Office Hours: 9:30 am - noon (also Zoom)
Dec 13 — Final Exam, 2:30 - 4:20 pm

Lecture Schedule
(Fall 2024)

Week of:	Topic:	Chapter:
Aug 26-28 —	Course Introduction & History of Evolution	1-2
Sep 2-4 —	No Class Sep 2 - Labor Day Overview of Selection & Adaptation	3
Sep 9-11 —	Intro to Evolutionary Trees	4-5
Sep 16-18 —	Reconstructing Evolutionary Trees	5
Sep 23-25 —	Interpreting Trees; What is a Species?	4, 14
Sep 30-Oct 2 —	Exam 1 - Sep 30 Origin of Species	14
Oct 7-9 —	History of Life	11-12
Oct 14-16 —	No Class Oct 14 - Fall Break Macroevolution	15
Oct 21-23 —	Evolutionary Development	13
Oct 28-30 —	Mutations; Population Genetics	6, 7
Nov 4-6 —	Exam 2 - Nov 4 Population Genetics, continued	7
Nov 11-13 —	No Class Nov 11 - Veteran's Day Genetic Drift	8
Nov 18-20 —	Quantitative Genetics	9
Nov 25-27 —	Evolution of Sex; Sexual Selection	16
Dec 2-4 —	Kin Selection & Cooperation	17
Dec 13 —	Final Exam: 2:30 - 4:20