2 Schedule
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Part | Session | Type | Topic | Instructor |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Evolution by Natural Selection | 1 | Lecture | Darwin and his theories (what is evolution) | ORJ |
2 | Practical | Exercise - The Blind Watchmaker | ORJ | |
3 | Lecture | Understanding Natural Selection | ORJ | |
4 | Practical | Exercise - Bug hunt camouflage (NetLogo) | ORJ | |
Population Growth Models | 5 | Lecture | Exponential growth | TBB |
6 | Practical | Exercises - Geometric growth (in class); Stochastic growth (as homework) | ORJ | |
7 | Lecture | Logistic growth | TBB | |
8 | Practical | Exercises - Basic logistic population growth (in class); Deeper into logistic growth (as homework) | ORJ | |
9 | Lecture | Life tables | ORJ | |
10 | Practical | Exercises - Life tables and survivorship types | ORJ | |
11 | Lecture | Age and Stage Structured Models | ORJ | |
12 | Practical | Exercises - Matrix population modeling | ORJ | |
13 | Lecture | Evolution of Life Histories | ORJ | |
14 | Practical | Exercises - How many eggs should a bird lay?; Trade-offs and the force of selection | ORJ | |
Population Genetics and Evolution | 15 | Lecture | The Hardy-Weinberg Principle | ORJ |
16 | Practical | Exercises - Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium | ORJ | |
17 | Lecture | Mutation and Genetic Variance of Populations | ORJ | |
18 | Practical | Exercises - The gene pool model | ORJ | |
19 | Lecture | Genetic Drift and Effective Population Size | ORJ | |
20 | Practical | Practice Exam 1 (covering material until now) | ORJ | |
21 | Lecture | Inbreeding | ORJ | |
22 | Practical | Feedback on practice exam 1 | ORJ | |
23 | Lecture | Migration, Gene Flow and Differentiation of Populations | ORJ | |
24 | Practical | Exercises - Neutral/adaptive in humans | ORJ | |
25 | Lecture | Haploid and Zygotic Selection | ORJ | |
26 | Practical | Practice written answer exam | ORJ | |
27 | Lecture | Polygenic Inheritance and Quantitative Genetics | ORJ | |
28 | Practical | Exercises - Heritability from regression | ORJ | |
Interactions Between Species and Community Structure | 29 | Lecture | Competition 1 (Interspecific Competition) | TBB |
30 | Practical | Exercises on Lotka-Volterra competition | ORJ | |
31 | Lecture | Competition 2 (Interspecific Competition) | TBB | |
32 | Practical | Exercises on Lotka-Volterra competition (continued) | ORJ | |
33 | Lecture | Predation 1 | TBB | |
34 | Practical | Exercises on Lotka-Volterra predator-prey dynamics (part 1) | ORJ | |
35 | Lecture | Predation 2 | TBB | |
36 | Practical | Exercises on Lotka-Volterra predator-prey dynamics (part 2) | ORJ | |
37 | Lecture | Interactions and community structure | TBB | |
38 | Lecture | Interactions and community structure | TBB | |
39 | Lecture | Coevolution | ORJ | |
40 | Practical | Practice Exam 2 (covering material until now). | ORJ | |
Animal behaviour, altruism and sexual selection | 41 | Lecture | Animal Behaviour, Altruism and Limiting Aggression | ORJ |
42 | Practical | Exercises - Hawks and Doves | ORJ | |
43 | Lecture | Sexual Selection and Mating Systems | ORJ | |
44 | Practical | Feedback on practice exam 2 | ORJ | |
45 | Lecture | |||
46 | Practical |