Course Format: Lecture: 9:05A-9:55A, MWF, JH 124. One fifty-minute
discussion per week.

Prerequisites:  For biological and other science majors.

Course Description: In this course, students will study the interaction
of genetical, ecological, and evolutionary processes and learn how
these processes interact to create and sustain bio-diversity and
adaptation.  Each of the five fundamental evolutionary processes
(natural selection, random genetic drift, mutation, migration, and
meiotic drive) leaves a unique signature on the genetic variation of
every species.  However, because they all operate simultaneously, it
can be difficult to understand the unique role of each process in
creating patterns in nature.  Special topics will include: (1) sexual
selection and the evolution of mating systems; (2) the evolution of sex
and the paradox of sexual reproduction; (3) the evolution of social
behaviors; and, (4) the co-evolution of hosts and pathogens.  The
overall goal is for the student to develop the ability to think
critically and quantitatively about patterns in nature and to apply
evolutionary and ecological principles to understand those patterns.

Required Text: TBA

Weekly Assignments: Fourty-sixty pages of text and outside readings and
one problem set.

Exams/Papers: Four in-class written exams.