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Tentative Schedule
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Date |
Topic |
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Week 1 – January 2 |
Introduction |
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Week 2 – January 9 |
2 Evolution: the theories 4 Hardy-Weinberg: the basics |
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Week 3 – January 16 |
Ice storm 2005 - UNBC closed Reprise |
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Week 4 – January 23 |
6 H-W violations: not so random Reprise cancelled to prevent the spread of disease 7 Reprise revisited |
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Week 5 – January 30 |
7 "Quantitative" genetics I 8 "Quantitative" genetics II Quiz |
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Week 6 – February 6 |
Quiz explained 9 Selection and Adaptation |
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Week 7 – February 13 |
No Classes
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Week 8 – February 20 |
11 Sex II: so what (sexual selection) 12 Sex III: Parasite-mediated sexual selection Class cancelled |
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Week 9 – February 27 |
Stuck in Vancouver (do not fly Jetsgo!) Finish off Sexual Selection 13 Sex Ratios |
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Week 10 – March 6 |
14 Kin selection (text) 15 Life-history Test |
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Week 11– March 13 |
Test explained 16-17 Species Jamming with Keith |
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Week 12 – March 20 |
16-17 Speciation 18 Classification and phylogeny (text) Religious holiday |
| Week 13 – March 27 |
Religious holiday 19 Heterochrony 20 Pre-Cambrian life |
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Week 14 – April 3 |
21 The Cambrian so-called explosion (perhaps in retrospect) 22 Extinctions: mass and not so massive. Recapitulation and conclusion |
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