Lecture Materials

Lecture PowerPoints and Notes will be posted after lectures.

IMPORTANT: These are not meant to be a substitute for attending lecture and taking your own notes, but are a supplement for review.


Readings are from the Brooker (B.) and Freeman & Herron (F&H) texts.

  Date Topic Readings

M

1/26

Introduction and course logistics

Lecture 1 

Syllabus    Lecture Schedule

W

1/28

Mendelian genetics

Lecture 2           Notes

B. 2 pp. 17-25

F

1/30

Independent assortment

Lecture 3           Notes

B. 2 pp. 25-30

M

2/2

Sexual reproduction: Meiosis and beyond

Lecture 4

B. 3 pp. 46-63

W

2/4

Sex determination and sex linkage

Lecture 5           Notes

B. 3 pp. 64-69

F

2/6

Extensions of Mendelian genetics

Lecture 6          Notes

B. 4

M

2/9

More extensions, Pedigree analysis

Lecture 7

B. 2 p. 30

Paper on Wolf coat color

W

2/11

Probability and hypothesis testing

Lecture 8

B. pp. 31-37

F

2/13

Linkage

Lecture 9

B. 5 pp. 101-110

M

2/16

HOLIDAY

  

W

2/18

Genetic mapping

Lecture 10

B. 5 pp. 112-120

F

2/20

More Genetic mapping

Lecture 11

 
 

M

2/23

Chromosomal variation

Lecture 12

B. 8

W

2/25

More chromosomal variation

Lecture 13

B. 8

F

2/ 27

EXAM 1

Topics 1/26- 2/25
 

M

3/2

History of the evolutionary concept

Lecture 14

F&H 2

W

3/4

Evolution by natural selection

Lecture 15

F&H 3

F

3/6

The equilibrium population

Lecture 16

F&H 6 pp. 169-182
 

M

3/9

Mutation I

Lecture 17

Bell 1914  Stansfield et al. 2005

F&H 5 p. 143-160;

F&H 6 pp. 210-212

W

3/11

Mutation II

Lecture 18

F&H 5 p. 143-160;

F&H 6 pp. 210-212

F

3/13

Natural Selection

Lecture 19

F&H 6 pp. 182-194
 

M

3/16

Genetic Drift

Lecture 20

F&H 7 p. 232-251, 264-273

 

W

3/18

Drift, Ne and Inbreeding depression

Lecture 21

F&H 7 pp.223-232

F

3/20

Migration and population structure

Lecture 22

F&H 7 pp.223-232

F&H 9 pp.319-333
 

M

3/23

Migration; Intro Adaptation

Lecture 23 Gould & Lewontin 1979

F&H 10

W

3/25

Adaptation and Evolution of Sex

Lecture 24

F&H 10, 11

F

3/27

Sexual selection

Lecture 25

F&H 11

 

 

SPRING BREAK

M

4/6

Polygenic inheritance

Lecture 26

FH 9

W

4/8

Polygenic inheritance continued

Lecture 27

FH 9

F

4/10

EXAM 2

Lectures plus readings in Ch. 2, 3, 5, 6, 7, 10, 11

Topics 3/2 – 3/27

 

M

4/13

Origin and early history of life

Lecture 28

F&H 17

W

4/15

History of life & Cambrian Explosion

Lecture 29

F&H 18

F

4/17

Finished Cmabrian explosion + extinction

Lecture 30

 
 

M

4/20

Speciation 1

Lecture 31

F&H 16

W

4/22

Speciation 2

Lecture 32

 

F

4/24

Phylogenetics and systematics

Lecture 33

F&H 4
 

M

4/27

From mammals to archaic hominids

Lecture 34

FH 20

W

4/29

Oriign of modern Homo sapiens

Lecture 35

 

F

5/1

More on origins: genomic analyses

Lecture 36 (this is the right version of this lecture; not the incomplete one I showed in class)

 
 

M

5/4

lecture from 5/1 given today

 

W

5/6

Evolution of languages

Lecture 37

 

F

5/8

Overview and synthesis

M

 5/11

FINAL (10:10-12:00)

Comprehensive