INTRODUCTION TO ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION
LECTURE SCHEDULE 2012
DATE
LECT.
TOPICS
1/19
1
Introduction
1/23
2
Evolution - Charles Darwin & Natural Selection I
1/26
3
Natural Selection II
1/30
4
Evolutionary Mechanisms I
2/2
5
Evolutionary Mechanisms II
2/6
6
Phylogenetic Trees
2/9
7
Evolution of Sexual Selection
2/13
8
Evolution of Domestication I-Plants
2/16
9
Evolution ofDomestication II -Animals
2/20
10
Human Evolution I
2/23
EXAM 1 (Lectures 2-9)
2/27
11
Human Evolution II
3/1
12
Recent Gene Evolution
3/5
13
Experimental Evolution
3/8
14
Population Ecology
SPRING BREAK
3/19
15
Population Growth
3/22
16
Intraspecific Effects: Density-dependent & independent
3/26
17
Guest Lecture: Dr. Lena Struwe
"Why Plants are Where They Are"
3/29
18
Community Ecology
4/2
EXAM 2 (Lectures 10-17)
4/5
19
Interspecific Competition
4/9
20
Predation
4/12
21
Symbiosis & Mimicry
4/16
22
Food Webs
4/19
22
Guest Lecture: Dr. Michael Sukhdeo
"Parasites & Food Webs"
4/23
24
Chemical Cycling
4/26
25
Climate Change
4/30
26
Doom & Gloom
5/8
EXAM 3 (Lectures 18-26) 8:00-9:20 PM
