Dr. David N. Reznick and Dr. Theodore Garland, Jr., Professors of Biology
Susana Peluc, Teaching Assistant
Lecture meets Tuesday and Thursday, 2:10-3:30 P.M. in 2200 Spieth Hall
Contact information:
Reznick
Garland
Peluc
3246 Spieth
109 ULB
2338 Spieth
david.reznick@ucr.edu tgarland@citrus.ucr.edu
susanaip@citrus.ucr.edu
787-3524
827-7021
Text: Ridley, M. 2004. Evolution. 3rd ed. Blackwell Publishing.
Discussion readings: Packet available from UCR Printing & Reprographics.
Lecture Schedule (subject to change)
Date | Who | Wk | Lec | Topic | Ridley Ch. | Reading Packet |
25 Sept | TG | 1 | 1 | Introduction to Course; History of Evolutionary Thought | 1, 3 | None |
30 Sept | DR | 2 | 2 | Natural and Artificial Selection | 2, 4, 5 | Gibbs & Grant 1987; Weiner 1994 |
2 Oct | TG | 3 | Selection Experiments | 9 | ||
7 Oct | DR | 3 | 4 | Quantitative Genetics | 9 | Wuethrich 1998;
Lively & Jokela 2002 |
9 Oct | DR | 5 | Other Causes of Evolution:
Drift, Migration, Mutation |
6 | ||
14 Oct | TG | 4 | 6 | Speciation 1 | 13 | Schluter 1998; Butlin & Tregenza 1997; Saetre et al. 1997; Rosenzweig 1997; |
16 Oct | TG | 7 | Speciation 2 | 14 | Klicka & Zink 1997 | |
21 Oct | 5 | 1st Midterm | None for 21 Oct. | |||
23 Oct | TG | 8 | Phylogeny and Systematics | 15, 16 | Darwin 1858; Jacob 1977 | |
28 Oct | TG | 6 | 9 | Analysis of Adaptation;
The Comparative Method |
10, 12 | Dawkins 1994;
Reznick et al. 2002 |
30 Oct | TG | 10 | Phylogenetic Statistics | None | Garland & Adolph 1994 | |
4 Nov | DR | 7 | 11 | Relative and Absolute Time; Geologic Record; Age of Earth | 524-529 | Gingerich 1983; Reznick et al. 1997; Morell 1997 |
6 Nov. | DR | 12 | Rates of Evolution: The Fossil Record vs. Contemporary Studies | 21 | Paper Assignment
will be presented |
|
11 Nov | Holiday | 8 | None | |||
13 Nov | M | 2nd Midterm | ||||
18 Nov | DR | 9 | 13 | The Early History of Life | 529-545, 550-552 | Knoll 1992 |
20 Nov | DR | 14 | Extinctions | 23 | ||
25 Nov | DR | 10 | 15 | Development and Evolution | 20 | None |
27 Nov | Holiday | |||||
2 Dec | DR | 11 | 16 | Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs | None | Raup 1994;
Springer et al. 1997 |
4 Dec | DR | 17 | Human Evolution | 545-550 | ||
Final | time and place to be announced ... |