BIO 373 -- Mechanisms of Evolution -- Spring 2001

BIO 373 -- Mechanisms of Evolution -- Spring 2005

Course information

Course overview

Daily Assignments

Papers for class discussion

Jan 26

Paley, W. 1809. Natural Theology; or, Evidences of the Existence and Attributes of the Deity
Darwin, C. 1859. On the origin of species (excerpts of the first edition)
Wallace, A.R. 1858. On the tendencies of varieties to depart indefinitely from the original type.

Feb 14

• Friar et al. (2001) Population structure in the endangered Mauna Loa silversword, Argyroxiphium kauense (Asteraceae), and its bearing on reintroduction. Molecular Ecology 1657-1563.
• Martin and Pulumbi (1993). Body size, metabolic rate, generation time and the molecular clock. PNAS 90:4087-4091.

Feb 25

•Weiblen, G. D. 2004. Correlation evolution of figs and fig wasps. Systematic Biology

Old exams (may cover different subjects)

Quizzes from Spring 2003

Exams from Spring 2001

Quiz 1

Quiz 3

Exams from Spring 1998

Exam I

Exam II

Exams from Fall 1999

Exam I

Exam II

LINKS OF INTEREST

Freeman and Herron Evolutionary Analysis Text site -- Site set up by textbook publishers -- contains review questions and further reading

PopG -- Joe Felsenstein's elegant little population genetics simulation.

MEGA -- Molecular Evolutionary Genetic Analysis (free, Windows only)

Example data sets from Nei and Kumar's Molecular Evolution and Phylogenetics

NCBI-- Entry point for searches of the sequence and protein database

TreeBase -- A database of phylogenetic knowledge

The Tree of Life Web Project -- a collaborative web project to organize expert phylogenetic knowledge

COMPARE -- Emilia Martins programs for phylogenetic contrast analysis