Home Biology 3020 Introduction to Evolution

Winter 2009

 

Lecture Notes


Topic
The nature of science
"Creationism" and teaching evolution
Evolution/creation court cases
History of evolutionary thought
Darwin's theory of evolution
Mendelian genetics
Beyond Mendel
Cell division 
Meiosis
DNA
What are genes?
Population genetics
Natural selection
Speciation
Evidence for evolution: Biogeography
Evidence for evolution: Paleontology
Evidence for evolution: Comparative anatomy
Evidence for evolution: Biochemistry
Origin of life
Human Evolution: (not covered in class)
  1. How Humans Evolved
  2. Human evolution - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia