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EVOLUTION (L567), Fall 2008
Instructor: Curt Lively, JH 117B; Phone 5-1842; email ([email protected])
Course web site: http://www.indiana.edu/~curtweb/Teaching/L567.html
References: Evolutionary Genetics, by J. Maynard Smith (QH371.M327)
Introduction to Evolutionary Ecology, by A. Cockburn (QH313.C74)
The Evolution of Life Histories, by S. Stearns (QH371.S72)
The Darwinian Revolution, by M. Ruse (QH361.R87, undergrad library)
Genetics, Paleontology, and Macroevolution, by J. Levinton (QH366.2.L47)
Evolution and the Theory of Games, by J. Maynard Smith (QH366.2)
Principles of Population Genetics (3rd edition), by D.L Hartl & A.G. Clark (QH 455.H36)
Theoretical Evolutionary Ecology, by M. Bulmer
Quantitative Genetics, by M. Lynch and B. Walsh
Introduction to Quantitative Genetics, by D.S. Falconer and T.F.C. Mackay.
The Origins of Theoretical Population Genetics, by W. B. Provine
Evolutionary Biology (3rd edition), by D. J. Futuyma
Evolutionary Theory: mathematical and conceptual foundations, by Sean H. Rice
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Introduction, and some history (1)
Population genetics I: Basic population genetics (2)
Population genetics II (3)
Quantitative genetics I (4)
Quantitative genetics II (5)
Phenotypic models I (6)
Phenotypic models II (7)
Conditional strategies, & Rock Paper Scissors (8)
Sex-ratio evolution (9)
Local mate competition (diminishing returns I) (10)
Life-history evolution: the size-number compromise (diminishing returns II) (11)
Cost of sex, mutation-selection balance, Muller’s ratchet) (12)
Genetic diversity and sex: the ecological hypotheses (13)
FIRST EXAM
Recombination (Burt&Bell paper). Pluralism in models of sex/rec (14)
Synthesis (14)
Epistasis, linkage disequilibrium. Sexual selection I (14, 15)
Sexual selection: II. (16)
Female choice and meiotic drive (17)
Indirect selection on correlated traits (Dr. Lynda Delph)
Meiotic drive & sexual conflict (cont.), discuss Zeh & Zeh paper (18)
Kin selection, group selection and social evolution (19)
Inbreeding, dominance and the course and endpoint of selection (20)
Group selection, shifting balance, and effective population size (21)
Speciation (22)
(Thanksgiving Break)
Macroevolution (23)
SECOND EXAM
Class discussion: Schemske & Bradshaw 1999 (24)
Phenotypic plasticity (with special ref. to acorn barnacles) (25)
material for 1st exam. Material for 2nd exam.