Biology 320 - Evolutionary Biology

Spring
2021
01
4.00
Jill Miller
TTH 01:30PM-02:50PM
Amherst College
BIOL-320-01-2021S
SCCE E208
jsmiller@amherst.edu

Evolution is a powerful and central theme that unifies the life sciences. In this course, emphasis is placed on microevolutionary mechanisms of change, and their connection to large-scale macroevolutionary patterns and diversity. Through lectures and readings from the primary literature, we will study genetic drift and gene flow, natural selection and adaptation, molecular evolution, speciation, the evolution of sex and sexual selection, life history evolution, and inference and interpretation of evolutionary relationships. Three hours of lecture and one hour of discussion each week.

Requisite: BIOL 181; BIOL 191 recommended. Not open to first-year students. Spring semester. Professor Miller

This course will be conducted in-person. Online components are available, as needed, supported by appropriate technology. Options for online-only participation will be available for those students unable to participate in person.

Permission is required for interchange registration during the add/drop period only.
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