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Tentative Schedule
Date | Topic |
Week 1 – January 2 | Introduction |
Week 2 – January 9 | 2 Evolution: the theories 4 Hardy-Weinberg: the basics |
Week 3 – January 16 | Ice storm 2005 - UNBC closed Reprise |
Week 4 – January 23 | 6 H-W violations: not so random Reprise cancelled to prevent the spread of disease 7 Reprise revisited |
Week 5 – January 30 | 7 "Quantitative" genetics I 8 "Quantitative" genetics II Quiz |
Week 6 – February 6 | Quiz explained 9 Selection and Adaptation |
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 |
Week 9 – February 27 | Stuck in Vancouver (do not fly Jetsgo!) Finish off Sexual Selection 13 Sex Ratios |
Week 10 – March 6 | 14 Kin selection (text) 15 Life-history Test |
Week 11– March 13 | Test explained 16-17 Species Jamming with Keith |
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 |
Week 14 – April 3 | 21 The Cambrian so-called explosion (perhaps in retrospect) 22 Extinctions: mass and not so massive. Recapitulation and conclusion |