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Principles of Evolution (BSCI 370), Fall 2008Instructor: Dr. Charles B. Fenster, Biology/Psychology Bldg. Rm. 3233,
Meeting time: 11-12:15, Tuesday and Thursday, PLS 1140Office Hours: by appointment, and open “office hours” on Wednesdays 4-5 PM, Room:
BPS 3233
For course information, including hand-outs etc., go to Charles B. Fenster lab web page:
http://www.life.umd.edu/biology/fensterlab/and click on Evolution 370 for course information.
Teaching Assistant: Silvana Marten-Rodriguez, office hours: Mondays, 4-6 PM, Rm 3204 BPS, [email protected]
Exams: There will be three 1 hr and 15 minute exams during the semester, each worth 100 points, and a final 4th exam during the Final Exam Period, worth 150 points. The final exam will be approximately 100 points on the lecture material since the third exam and 50 points cumulative. The lowest exam score of your three 1 hr and 15 minute exams will be dropped. Total Exam Grade: 350 pts.
You can earn X-tra credit by turning in relevant questions to the exam review sessions (1-3 pts/exam). Questions for the review must be turned in by Monday noon prior to the exam. Questions must be typed or hand-printed (clearly), but must be turned in via hard copy, and only placed in my mailbox in Rm: 1210 Biology/Psychology Bldg. Total opportunity for X-tra credit = 12 points.
Also, rarely, if a question arises in class you can turn in a report addressing that question (with my permission) for approximately 5 pts.
Exams will consist of definitions, problems, short answer questions and multiple-choice questions and will come exclusively from lecture material. Lectures will mirror the textbook. The readings from Darwin will reinforce points made in the text book and in class.
Essays: 5, 15, 30 points. In addition, there will be 3 reports, each < 3 pages (typed, Font = 12, double space, one inch margins) paper that summarizes Darwin’s thoughts, using quotes and then evidence from the textbook to support or confute Darwin’s thoughts:
Essay 1: Compare Darwin chapters 10 and 12 with what we have learned and summarized in chapter 2, “Form and Function”
Essay 2: Compare Darwin chapters 1-4 with what we learned and summarized in chapters 3, 5 and 6 in Freeman and Herron
Essay 3: Compare Darwin chapter 4 (the section on Sexual Selection) with what we learned and summarized in chapter 11 in Freeman and Herron.
Your essay grades will reflect your ability to integrate what you have learned in class in terms of with Darwin’s thoughts on the topic. Use Bold FONT to let us you are using specific concepts or keywords or phrases you have learned in class.
Your first report will be worth 5 pts, the second 15 pts and the final will be worth 30 points. Reports are to be turned in to class the day they are due.
Note that the Darwin assignments serve as important additional background material in addition to serving as the source for your essay assignments.
DateTopic Reading
September 2 Introduction, Sources of Variation Chapter 1Darwin: Intro
September 4 HIV Chapter 1
September 9 Pattern of Evolution Chapter 2Darwin: 10 & 12
September 11 Darwinian Natural Selection Chapter 3Darwin: 1 & 2
September 16 Estimating Phylogeny Chapter 4
September 18 Mutation & Genetic Variation Chapter 5
September 23 Mendelian Genetics & Selection Chapter 6Darwin 3 & 4
September 25 Exam I Chapters 1-5
September 30 Floral Evolution, demonstration of form and function
No Reading
October 2 Mendelian Genetics & Selection Continued Chapter 6Essay 1
October 7 Mendelian Genetics & Selection Continued Chapter 6
October 9 Review Session
October 14 Migration, Drift, Nonrandom Mating Chapter 7
October 16 Migration, Drift, Nonrandom Mating Continued Chapter 7
October 21 Linkage and Sex Chapter 8
October 23 Quantitative Genetics Chapter 9
October 28 Exam II Chapters 6-8
October 30 Quantitative Genetics Continued Chapter 9
November 4 Form and Function Chapter 10
November 6 Sexual Selection Chapter 11Darwin 4Essay 2
November 11 Kin Selection Chapter 12
November 13 Kin Selection continued Chapter 12
November 18 Evolution of Life History Chapter 13
November 20 Exam III Chapters 9-12
November 25 Speciation Chapter 16Darwin 11 & 12
November 27 Thanksgiving NO CLASS
December 2 Speciation Continued Chapter 16
December 4 Human Health Chapter 14
December 9 Human Evolution Chapter 20
December 11 Human Evolution Chapter 20
December 15 Final Exam Chapters 13,14, 16, 20 &Cumulative
DateTopic Reading
September 2 Introduction, Sources of Variation Chapter 1Darwin: Intro
September 4 HIV Chapter 1
September 9 Pattern of Evolution Chapter 2Darwin: 10 & 12
September 11 Darwinian Natural Selection Chapter 3Darwin: 1 & 2
September 16 Estimating Phylogeny Chapter 4
September 18 Mutation & Genetic Variation Chapter 5
September 23 Mendelian Genetics & Selection Chapter 6Darwin 3 & 4
September 25 Exam I Chapters 1-5
September 30 Floral Evolution, demonstration of form and function
No Reading
October 2 Mendelian Genetics & Selection Continued Chapter 6Essay 1
October 7 Mendelian Genetics & Selection Continued Chapter 6
October 9 Review Session
October 14 Migration, Drift, Nonrandom Mating Chapter 7
October 16 Migration, Drift, Nonrandom Mating Continued Chapter 7
October 21 Linkage and Sex Chapter 8
October 23 Quantitative Genetics Chapter 9
October 28 Exam II Chapters 6-8
October 30 Quantitative Genetics Continued Chapter 9
November 4 Form and Function Chapter 10
November 6 Sexual Selection Chapter 11Darwin 4Essay 2
November 11 Kin Selection Chapter 12
November 13 Kin Selection continued Chapter 12
November 18 Evolution of Life History Chapter 13
November 20 Exam III Chapters 9-12
November 25 Speciation Chapter 16Darwin 11 & 12
November 27 Thanksgiving NO CLASS
December 2 Speciation Continued Chapter 16
December 4 Human Health Chapter 14
December 9 Human Evolution Chapter 20
December 11 Human Evolution Chapter 20
December 15 Final Exam Chapters 13,14, 16, 20 &Cumulative
Tree of Life
Evolution 370
• How did this diversity arise?• What are the selective agents responsible
for evolution of specific traits (adaptive value)?
• What are the genetic and environmental processes that underlay evolution?
• How can I better understand the natural world around me, including humans (morphology, behavior, diseases, etc.)
Eucaryotes
Cambrian Explosion of Diversity
Plants
cooksonia
Seed plants
What is the origin of biological diversity?
• Mutations
• Sex = Recombination = Meiosis
This view of the shallows of Shark's Bay, Australia, shows a colony of living stromatolites. ©Isao Inouye (University of Tsukuba), Mark Schneegurt (Wichita State University), and Cyanosite (blue-green algae, cyanobacteria)
Mixing ChromosomesFrom DifferentParents
Independent Assortment Again
Chromosome Behavior &Independent Assortment
More Genetic Diversity: Mixing Genes Within a Chromosome
