Welcome to BIOL 471 EVOLUTION

BIOL 471 is a course in three parts:  (1) selection and adaptation (selection, modes of reproduction, species recognition, speciation); (2) microevolution (genetic variation, population genetics, molecular evolution); and (3) phylogenetic reconstruction (classification, historical evolution, origin of life theory and fossil record).  Available to juniors or seniors who have taken BIOL 311 or a college course in genetics.

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Evolution online resources WWW Index - Evolution Geological Time Periods PALAEOS: The trace of life on earth Tertiary Epochs Society for the Study of Evolution - the Journal Evolution BioOne Journals (including Evolution) Darwin online: all works including Origin of Species (1859) Wallace:  On the Tendency of Varieties to Depart Indefinitely from the Original Type (1858) National Academy of Sciences - Evolution American Museum of Natural History Natural History Magazine Smithsonian Institution-Department of Paleobiology “Tree of Life” Phylogeny Phylogeny of Life—UC Berkeley Origin of Life-NASA Smithsonian Human Origins Human Genome Project--glossary Talk Origins The Panda's Thumb Willi Hennig Society GenBank Statements from scientific societies about evolution NIH Podcast of 'God, Darwin & Design' by Kenneth Miller John Kyrk's Illustrated Timeline (13.7 billion years)