| Date |
Week |
Topic |
Due |
Slides |
Reading |
| 1/3/2024 |
1 |
Student lightning talks, quiz, VO and RP ‘hurricane’ talks - our thoughts on the subject of evolution
|
-- |
-- |
See Canvas assignment
|
| 1/8/2024 |
2 |
(RP) What is evolution? The facts. The theory. Past, present, future, human impacts
|
-- |
-- |
|
| 1/9/2024 |
2 |
Lab: History of life on Earth (Arms 100)
|
-- |
-- |
|
| 1/10/2024 |
2 |
(VO) History of life on Earth: Darwin the geobiologist, reading the rock record. Student reenactments - major events in Earth history
|
HW 1 |
-- |
|
| 1/15/2024 |
3 |
---------- no lecture holiday----------
|
-- |
-- |
|
| 1/16/2024 |
3 |
Lab: DNA extraction and Sequencing - I. gDNA extraction
|
-- |
-- |
|
| 1/17/2024 |
3 |
(RP) The theoretical framework for thinking about evolution - variation, heritability, the forces of evolution. Mutation selection, drift, and migration. In class simulation of drift
|
HW 2 |
-- |
|
| 1/22/2024 |
4 |
(RP) Molecules as documents of evolutionary history: concepts
|
-- |
-- |
|
| 1/23/2024 |
4 |
Lab: DNA extraction and Sequencing - II. PCR and electrophoresis
|
-- |
-- |
|
| 1/24/2024 |
4 |
(RP) Molecules as documents of evolutionary history: case studies
|
-- |
-- |
|
| 1/29/2024 |
5 |
(VO) Introduction to phylogenetic systematics: primary focus on fossil record/morphological traits. In-class activity with Caminalcules.
|
-- |
-- |
|
| 1/30/2024 |
5 |
Lab: DNA extraction and Sequencing - III. Sequencing and phylogenetics
|
-- |
-- |
|
| 1/31/2024 |
5 |
(VO) Natural selection and ecological connections
|
HW 3 |
-- |
|
| 2/5/2024 |
6 |
(RP) Mechanisms of speciation: eukaryotes
|
-- |
-- |
|
| 2/6/2024 |
6 |
Lab: Visit to the Occidental College bird lab
|
-- |
-- |
|
| 2/7/2024 |
6 |
(VO) Speciation in the microbial world
|
HW 4 |
-- |
|
| 2/12/2024 |
7 |
(VO) Evolutionary innovation through microbial symbiosis - I
|
-- |
-- |
|
| 2/13/2024 |
7 |
Lab: Symbiosis
|
-- |
-- |
|
| 2/14/2024 |
7 |
(VO) Evolutionary innovation through microbial symbiosis - II
|
-- |
-- |
|
| 2/19/2024 |
8 |
---------- no lecture holiday----------
|
-- |
-- |
|
| 2/20/2024 |
8 |
Lab: Luria-Delbrück - I
|
-- |
-- |
|
| 2/21/2024 |
8 |
(VO) Role of viruses and phages in evolution of eukaryotes, bacteria, and archaea
|
-- |
-- |
|
| 2/26/2024 |
9 |
(RP) From land to sea and back again - whales
|
-- |
-- |
|
| 2/27/2024 |
9 |
Lab: Luria-Delbrück - II
|
-- |
-- |
|
| 2/28/2024 |
9 |
(VO) A plant’s journey from land to sea - seagrass
|
-- |
-- |
|
| 3/4/2024 |
10 |
(RP) Human evolution - I
|
-- |
-- |
|
| 3/5/2024 |
10 |
Lab:
|
-- |
-- |
|
| 3/6/2024 |
10 |
(RP) Human evolution - II
|
-- |
-- |
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