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DATE
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Part I. The Historical Record of Evolution |
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Jan 14 |
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Overview of Evolutionary Biology
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Text Chapters:
1, 2, 3
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Jan 28 |
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The Origin of Life and Prokaryotes
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Text Chapters: 4, 5
Text--Chapter Four
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Feb 4 |
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Origin of Eukaryotes and Snowball Earths
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Text Chapters: 6, 7, 8
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Feb 11 |
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Evolution of Multicellularity
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Text Chapters: 9, 10, 11
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Feb 25 |
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Evolution of Plants, Animals and Fungi
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Text Chapters: 9, 10, 11 |
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Mar 4 |
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Human Evolution
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Text Chapters: 25, 26
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Mar 11 |
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EXAM ONE--History of Life
BIODIVERSITY SHOWCASE CHECK
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All material from Part I
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DATE
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Part II. Evolutionary Processes
(March 20, 2019--last day
to withdraw) |
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Mar 18 |
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Variability
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Text Chapters: 12, 13, 14
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Mar 25 |
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Constraining Variability (natural selection and other
forces)
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Text Chapters: 17, 18, 19
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April 1 |
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Competition and Cooperation
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Text Chapters: 21
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April 8 |
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Species Concepts and Speciation
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Text Chapters: 22
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April 15 |
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Evolutionary Innovation
Evolution of Genetic and
Developmental Pathways (“evo-devo”)
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Text Chapters: 23, 24
Text Chapters: 9, 11
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April 22 |
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EXAM TWO--Process of Evolution
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All material from Part II
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TBA |
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BIODIVERSITY SHOWCASE
PRESENTATIONS |
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"There is grandeur in this view of life, with
its several powers, having been originally
breathed into a few forms or into one; and that,
whilst this planet has gone cycling on according
to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a
beginning endless forms most beautiful and most
wonderful have been, and are being, evolved."
--Charles Darwin, On the Origin of Species
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Larry M Frolich, Ph.D.
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Miami Dade College
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Wolfson
Campus
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Natural Sciences
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Miami, FL
33132
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Office 1504
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(305) 237-7589
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e-mail
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