The readings in the table below are from the textbooks:
Rice, Sean. Evolutionary Theory: Conceptual and Mathematical Foundations. Sunderland, MA: Sinauer, 2004. ISBN: 0878937021.
Hall, Barry. Phylogenetic Trees Made Easy. Sunderland, MA: Sinauer, 2004. ISBN: 0878933123.
Readings table
| WEEK # |
TOPICS |
READINGS |
| 1 |
Day 2
Introduction: The Basic Dynamical Systems of Evolution |
Rice: Chapter 1 |
| 2 |
Day 1
Forces of Evolution I: Complications
Day 2
Forces of Evolution II:
Optimization
|
Rice: Chapters 1 and 2 |
| 3 |
Day 1
Forces of Evolution III: Mutation, Migration
Day 2
Forces of Evolution IV: Genetic Drift
|
Rice: Chapter 3 |
| 4 |
Day 1
Evolution at the Molecular Level I
Day 2
Evolution at the Molecular Level II
|
Rice: Chapters 3 and 4
Hall: Appendix 1
|
| 5 |
Day 1
Evolution at the Molecular Level III
Day 2
The Algebra of Evolution: Price's Theorem I
|
Rice: Chapter 6 |
| 6 |
Day 2
The Algebra of Evolution: Price's Theorem II |
|
| 7 |
Day 1
Detecting Selection
Day 2
Detecting Selection: A Case Study
|
|
| 8 |
Day 1
Codon Volatility
Day 2
Coalescent Theory and Phylogenetics
|
Hall: Chapters 1 and 2 |
| 9 |
Day 1
Evolutionary Phylogenetics
Day 2
Evolutionary Phylogenetics
|
Hall: Chapters 2 and 3 |
| 10 |
Day 1
Quantitative Genetics I
Day 2
Quantitative Genetics II; Host-parasite Interactions
|
Rice: Chapter 7 |
| 11 |
Day 1
Host-parasite Interactions and Disease Models
Day 2
Evolutionary Stable Strategies
|
Rice: Chapter 9 |
| 12 |
Day 1
Developmental Evolution
Day 2
Quantitative Genetics II
|
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| 13 |
Day 1
Final Project Presentations
Day 2
Final Project Presentations (cont.)
|
|
| 14 |
Day 1
Final Project Presentations (cont.)
Day 2
Finale: The Future of Evolution
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