Syllabus: BIOLOGY 4250 --
EvolutionFall Semester 2012 -- 1:40 - 2:55 p.m., MW, Seq. 140.
Dr. James K. Adams -- 148 Sequoya Hall
Office Hours: 8:40 - 10:40 a.m. TW; 3:00 -
Office: (706) 272-4427 Home: (706) 602-6993 4:00
p.m. MW (intramurals may interfere);
E-mail:
jadams@daltonstate.edu 1:30
- 4:00 p.m. Th; 9:30 a.m. - 2:15 p.m.
Faculty website: www.daltonstate.edu/faculty-staff/jadams/ some
Fridays (call) or by appointment
Textbook: Evolutionary Analysis (4th Edition), by Freeman and
Herron
Week
Topics
Chapter, Pages
Aug. 13 - 16
Introduction to Course
(please read page 1)
The Pattern of Evolution
1 (overview), 2 (37 - 65)
Aug. 20 - 23
Darwinian Natural Selection
3 (74 - 96)
and the Modern Synthesis (with genetics)
Aug. 27 -
30
Estimating Evolutionary Trees
4 (overview)
Mutation and Genetic Variation
5 (143 - 166)
new genes, new alleles, chromosomal alterations
***Labor Day Holiday, Monday, Sept.
3, 2012***
Sept. 4 - 6
Finish Mutation and begin Mendelian Genetics 5 & 6
Sept. 10 - 13 ***EXAM 1, Chaps. (1) 2 - 5;
Monday,
Sept. 10,
2012***
Mendelian Genetics in Populations: Hardy-Weinberg
Selection, Mutation
6
Migration, Drift
7 (223 - 250)
Sept. 17 - 20
Mendelian Genetics in Populations:
Drift (cont.), Non-random mating
7 (251 - 273, 276)
Evolution with Multiple loci
8 (281 - 302)
Sept. 23 - 26
Evolution with Multiple loci: Quant. Genetics 9
Begin Adaptation
10
Oct. 1 - 4 ***EXAM
2, Chaps. 6 - 9; Monday,
Oct. 1,
2012***
Adaptation: Form and Function
10
Oct. 10 - 11
***Fall Break, Monday, Oct. 8 - Tuesday, Oct. 9, 2012***
Adaptive significance of sex
8 (302 - 312
Oct. 15 - 18
Sexual Selection
11
Kin Selection & Social Behavior
(begin)
12
Oct. 22 - 25
Kin Selection & Social Behavior
(cont) 12
Aging and Life History Characteristics:
13 (overview)
Fecundity, Lifespan, etc. in evolution
Oct. 29 - Nov. 1
Aging and Life History Characteristics (cont) 13
***EXAM 3, Chaps. 10 - 13; Wednesday,
Oct. 31,
2012***
Nov. 5 - 8 Mechanisms
of Speciation
16
Nov. 12 - 15
The Origins of Life; Precambrian Evolution 17
Nov. 19
The Cambrian Explosion and beyond
18
(Begin)
***Thanksgiving Day Holiday, Nov. 21 - 23, 2012***
Nov. 26 -
29 The Cambrian Explosion (cont.)
18 (continued)
***EXAM
4, Chaps. 16 - 18 (4), Wednesday, Nov. 28, 2012***
Dec. 3 Human Evolution/Molecular Evolution
14-15/19-20
(whatever we have time for)
FINAL:
Monday, December 10, 2012, 1:00 -- 3:00 p.m.
Withdrawal date is Tuesday, October 23, 2012.