Home Biology 3020 Introduction to Evolution

Spring 2012

Lecture Notes

Topic
The nature of science
"Creationism" and teaching evolution
Video: Scopes Monkey Trial
Evolution/creation court cases
Video: Charles Darwin: Evolution's Voice
History of evolutionary thought
Darwin's theory of evolution
Mendelian genetics
Beyond Mendel
Cell division 
Meiosis
Video: The Secret of Photo 51
DNA
What are genes?
Population genetics
Natural selection
Speciation
Cladistics
Evidence for evolution: Biogeography
Evidence for evolution: Paleontology
Evidence for evolution: Comparative anatomy
Evidence for evolution: Biochemistry
Origin of life
Human Evolution

  1. Discovering Ardi full video

  2. Discovering Ardi web site

  3. How Humans Evolved

  4. Human evolution - Wikipedia