Biology 145: Evolution Fall 2009

Taught by Dr. Donald A.
 

Outline

• Early Thinking
• Darwin and Wallace
• The Modern Synthesis
• Dating Earth history
• Origin of Life
• The Proterozoic Record
• The Cambrian Explosion
• Dating the Record
• The Paleozoic Record
• The Mesozoic Record
• The Cenozoic Record
• Extinction
• Natural Selection
• Molecular Evolution
• Quantitative Evolutionary Genetics
• Adaptation
• Classification
• Speciation
• Evolutionary Biogeography
•  Rates of Evolution
• Macroevolution.
• Human Evolution