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2020 / 2021Graduate Schools of Arts & SciencesCourses

Advanced Evolutionary Analysis

CAS BI 504

Credits:
4
Offered:
2nd sem.
Undergraduate Prerequisites:
CAS BI 309; or permission of instructor.

Modern concepts, controversies, and analytical approaches in evolutionary biology. Topics include adaptation, natural and sexual selection, species and species formation, phylogenetics, origin of evolutionary novelty, adaptive radiation, basic population and quantitative genetics, development and evolution. Three hours lecture, one hour discussion.

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