Biology 145: Evolution Fall 2009
 

Week

Tuesday

Thursday

1 (1st, 3rdSept)

Early Thinking
 

          Darwin, Wallace, and the     Modern Synthesis
2 (8th, 10th Sep)

Dating the record
 

Origin of Life 

3 (15th, 17th Sep)

The Paleozoic
 

The Mesozoic 

4 ( 22nd, 24th Sep)

The Cenozoic
 

Dynamics of extinctions
5 (29th, 1st Oct)

 MIDTERM 1
 

Natural selection

6 (6th, 8th Oct)

Classification

 

Speciation

 

7 (13th, 15th Oct)

NO CLASS

NO CLASS

8 (20th, 22nd Oct)

NO CLASS (Fall Break)
 

Evolution and development
9 (27th, 29th Oct) Adaptation

Rates of evolution

10 (3rd, 5th Nov)

Evolutionary Genetics 1
 

Evolutionary genetics II

 

11 (10th, 12th Nov)

MIDTERM 2

Sexual selection

12 (17th, 19th Nov)

Macroevolution

Evolutionary Biogeography

13 (24th, 26th Nov)

Island Evolution

NO CLASS (Thanksgiving)

 

14 (1st, 3rd  Dec)

Evolution of disease

Human Evolution

15 (8th Dec)

Open

 
Tuesday 15th December

FINAL (9:00 am)