Class

Topic

1

elements of evolution

2

cladistics - morphological approach

3

cladistics, continued - using molecular characters and statistical approaches

4

reconstructing descent with modification

5

questions of macroevolution; the fossil record

6

major patterns in evolutionary history: creative revolutions

7

major patterns in evolutionary history: extinction

9

forms of genetic variation

10

introduction to population genetics

11

understanding multilocus phenotypic traits

12

going up the heirarchy of complexity: population structure

13

understanding natural selection and testing adaptation

14

the genetics of natural selection

15

test

16

selection on continuous traits: QTL mapping

17

selection and phenotypic plasticity

18

species concepts

20

process of speciation 

21

life history and fitness

22

evolution of genomes

23

evolutionary development I

24

evolutionary development II  

25

 

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