{"id":287,"date":"2015-08-05T16:26:22","date_gmt":"2015-08-05T16:26:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.berry.edu\/jgraham\/?page_id=287"},"modified":"2015-08-26T12:00:52","modified_gmt":"2015-08-26T12:00:52","slug":"evolutionary-biology","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.berry.edu\/jgraham\/courses\/evolutionary-biology\/","title":{"rendered":"BIO 345 Evolutionary Biology"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><span style=\"color: #3333ff\">BIO 345\u00a0 Evolutionary Biology<\/span><\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<b><span style=\"color: #3333ff\">3-3-4<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n<p>Introduction to evolutionary processes and the history of evolutionary thought.\u00a0 Emphasis is on Darwinian theory of natural selection, evolutionary genetics, macroevolution, and tempo and mode of evolution.\u00a0 <i>PR: BIO 204<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sites.berry.edu\/jgraham\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2015\/08\/gull.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-171\" src=\"http:\/\/sites.berry.edu\/jgraham\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2015\/08\/gull-300x198.jpg\" alt=\"gull\" width=\"358\" height=\"236\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.berry.edu\/jgraham\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2015\/08\/gull-300x198.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sites.berry.edu\/jgraham\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2015\/08\/gull.jpg 957w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 358px) 100vw, 358px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Swallow-tail Gull (<i>Creagrus furcatus<\/i>), a Galapagos endemic (photo courtesy of Dena Mullen)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"><b><span style=\"color: #3333ff\">Course Description<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\">Introduction to the theory and process of evolution.\u00a0 The course covers the historical development of the subject, with readings in the primary literature, including Darwin, Lamarck, Malthus, Cuvier, and Wallace.\u00a0 It also covers population genetics models, which form the theoretical and mathematical basis for later empirical work in evolutionary biology.\u00a0 Topics include natural selection, the NeoDarwinian Synthesis, population genetics models, quantitative genetics models, molecular evolution, adaptation, developmental instability, speciation, cladistics, macroevolution, and human evolution.<\/span><\/p>\n<hr noshade=\"noshade\" width=\"100%\" \/>\n<p>Last Updated\u00a05 August 2015<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BIO 345\u00a0 Evolutionary Biology\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a03-3-4 Introduction to evolutionary processes and the history of evolutionary thought.\u00a0 Emphasis is on Darwinian theory of natural selection, evolutionary genetics, macroevolution, and tempo and mode of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":0,"parent":246,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-287","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.berry.edu\/jgraham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/287","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.berry.edu\/jgraham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.berry.edu\/jgraham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.berry.edu\/jgraham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.berry.edu\/jgraham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=287"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/sites.berry.edu\/jgraham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/287\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":375,"href":"https:\/\/sites.berry.edu\/jgraham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/287\/revisions\/375"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.berry.edu\/jgraham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/246"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.berry.edu\/jgraham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}