Evolutionary Biology Biology 006 Monday Wednesday Friday 1:55 – 2:45 Marsh 107

Evolutionary Biology
Biology 006
Monday Wednesday Friday 1:55 – 2:45
Marsh 107
General Information
Instructor: C.Brandon Ogbunu
656-4138
[email protected]
Office hours: Monday, Wednesday 2:45 – 5:00, Marsh 217
Information on the course is available on Blackboard. Please check this regularly
https://bb.uvm.edu/webapps/portal/frameset.jsp
Social Media: Twitter: @UVMEvolution
Grading (400 points total)
3 midterm exams
Cumulative Final exam
Total
200 points @ 100 points each, drop low exam
200 points* (Friday May 2th, 7:30-10:15, Marsh 107)
400 points
* If it improves your score you may count all 3 mid term exams, and have the final count for 100 points.
Makeup exams will only be allowed for special circumstances, and with advanced
approval from the professor.
There will be a weekly quiz that will be worth 1 point of extra credit. The goal of the
quiz is to provide additional review of the weeks lecture. More on this will be
forthcoming.
There will also be weekly social media participation activities that are worth 1 point
each
Some important clauses that probably don’t affect your life:
Religious Holidays: Students have the right to practice the religion of their choice. Each semester
students should submit in writing to their instructors by the end of the second full week of classes
their documented religious holiday schedule for the semester. Faculty must permit students who
miss work for the purpose of religious observance to make up this work.
Be aware that the University of Vermont has a very strict policy concerning academic integrity and
plagiarism. Please see the statement on academic integrity
http://www.uvm.edu/~uvmppg/ppg/student/acadintegrity.pdf . In cases of plagiarism, depending on the
severity of the case and whether it is a repeat offense, consequences will range between getting a zero on
the plagiarized paper to filing a complaint with the academic honesty coordinator. This can result in
expulsion from the University
Evolutionary Biology
Monday, Wednesday, Friday 1:55 – 2:45
M
January
12
Syllabus
The Scientific Method
Chapter 1 of Higgins
"Streak of Streaks" by
Stephen Jay Gould:
http://www.nybooks.co
m/articles/archives/1988
/aug/18/the-streak-ofstreaks/
W
14
History of evolution/ Darwin
http://www.talkorigins.o
rg/faqs/darwinprecursors.html
F
16
HIV - Evolution in action
http://evolution.berkele
y.edu/evolibrary/article/
medicine_04
http://evolution.berkele
y.edu/evolibrary/news/0
81101_hivorigins
M
19
MLK Holiday no class
W
21
Evidence for Evolution
Chapter 3 of Higgins.
http://evolution.berkele
y.edu/evosite/misconce
ps/index.shtml
http://www.youtube.co
m/watch?v=XdddbYILe
F
23
Hawaii, an evolutionary experiment
M
26
W
28
Evolution and the creationism
controversy.
Flock of Dodos pt 1
F
M
30
2
Flock of Dodos pt 2
Evolution for everyone
(this may be dropped based on time)
W
F
4
6
Exam 1
Basic Genetics
M
W
9
11
Basic Genetics
Genes in populations
F
13
The forces of evolution
February
l0&list=PL202A508811
3EFC28&feature=plcp
http://www.nap.edu/ope
nbook.php?isbn=03090
89913 (have fun with it,
don’t feel you need to
read it in depth!)
http://ncse.com/creation
ism
http://www.youtube.co
m/watch?v=3yTWnW8t
73w
http://www.biology.ariz
ona.edu/mendelian_gen
etics/problem_sets/mon
ohybrid_cross/01q.html
Excel spread sheet for
Hardy Weinberg
proportions
http://www.ndsu.edu/pu
bweb/~mcclean/plsc431
/popgen/popgen3.htm
http://evolution.berkele
y.edu/evolibrary/article/
0_0_0/evo_14
M
W
16
18
Presidents Day NO CLASS
The origins of variation
http://evolution.berkele
y.edu/evosite/evo101/III
C1Mutations.shtml
F
20
Genetic Drift and Migration
M
23
Natural Selection
W
25
Natural selection continued
F
27
Sexual selection
http://www.biology.ariz
ona.edu/evolution/act/dr
ift/drift.html
http://darwin.eeb.uconn.
edu/simulations/drift.ht
ml
http://evolution.berkele
y.edu/evosite/evo101/III
ENaturalSelection.shtml
through to deleterious
genes
http://www.actionbiosci
ence.org/evolution/futu
yma.html
http://evolution.berkele
y.edu/evosite/evo101/III
E3Sexualselection.shtm
l
Wade and Shuster
chapter on Blackboard
M
W
F
M
March
2
4
6
9
W
11
Spring Break NO CLASS
Spring Break NO CLASS
Spring Break NO CLASS
Kin selection and multilevel
selection
Exam 2
F
M
12
16
Multilevel selection continued
Wright’s shifting balance theory
W
18
Life History Evolution
http://www.nature.com/
scitable/topicpage/sewal
l-wright-and-thedevelopment-ofshifting-30508
http://oyc.yale.edu/ecol
ogy-and-evolutionarybiology/eeb122/lecture-11
F
M
W
20
23
25
Life History Evolution
Evolution of Aging
Running speed in Mice
F
27
Why Sex?
M
30
Malaria and Sickle cell anemia
1
Evolution and Genetic diseases
3
Evolution and Disease
W
F
April
http://cnas.ucr.edu/scien
celectures/garlandlectur
e.html
This is too technical,
but may be of interest
http://www.pbs.org/wgb
h/evolution/sex/advanta
ge/index.html
http://www.jstor.org/sta
ble/4448004
http://learn.genetics.uta
h.edu/content/disorders/
whataregd/
http://www.pbs.org/wgb
h/evolution/library/10/4/
l_104_01.html
M
W
6
8
Exam 3
Cancer and Evolution
F
10
Speciation
M
W
13
15
Speciation
Phylogenetics
http://www.youtube.co
m/watch?v=qJSJEjjfX-s
long lecture upon which
my lecture is based.
Lecture starts at 14
minutes
Higgins Chapter 4
http://tolweb.org/tree/ph
ylogeny.html
http://www.pbs.org/wgb
h/evolution/change/fami
ly/index.html
F
17
Phylogenetics
M
20
The Origin of Whales
W
21
Geological history of the earth
F
24
Origin of Life
http://evolution.berkele
y.edu/evolibrary/article/
evograms_03
http://pubs.usgs.gov/gip
/dynamic/historical.html
#anchor4833509
http://www.talkorigins.o
rg/faqs/abioprob/origino
flife.html
M
27
The history of Life on Earth
W
29
The history of Life on Earth
FINAL EXAM Friday May 1th, 7:30-10:15 Room Kalkin 004
http://www.pbs.org/wgb
h/evolution/change/deep
time/index.html