Due dateSection 1 Assignments
12 January 2011Turn in the Assignment #1 worksheet (Naturalism)
Due 24 January 2011Read Understanding Trees and be ready to use your knowledge of trees!
Due 26 January 2011
Answer questions about the primate tree
Due 2 February 2011Read Gould's essay on Ladders and Cones, Skim his Scientific American article, and answer these questions--20 point assignment


DaySlides
1
10 January 2011--Naturalism and what we can teach in a science class
2
12 January 2011--Naturalism discussion; What is evolution; Lamarckian vs. Darwinian evolution
3
14 January 2011--Evolution during and after the Modern Synthesis; Evidence for common ancestry (morphological homology)
4
19 January 2011--Evidence for Common Ancestry
5
21 January 2011--Common ancestry and the fossil record; Common ancestry and LUCA vs. the Web of Life
624 January 2011--Reading Trees
726 January 2011--Discussion (understanding trees); More tree rules
828 January 2011--"Primitive organisms" and the misconception that evolution predicts complexity
931 January 2011--Building Trees:  The Great Clade Race and Cladistics
104 February 2011--Building Trees continued:  Ordering and mapping character state changes and the principle of parsimony
Extra practice problem for cladistic tree building (just a confidence booster; not to turn in)
117 February 2011--No new slides: reviewed, discussed tree building practice problem and character state mapping problem; discussed Gould assignment