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1 Introduction to Evolution:
EQ: How do organisms evolve?
First half of lecture is background history - not note necessary
Natural Selection: What it is, how it works
Fitness: What it means
Who evolves? How?
What does it mean to adapt? How does this happen?
Examples of natural selection
Selective pressures
Common ancestry (and how natural selection relates)
Difference between natural selection and artificial selection (similarities too!)
1.5: Classification
EQ: How do we determine evolutionary relationships?
Know the three domains
Understand nomenclature (genus and species)
Understand the domains are least specific, while species is the most specific
Know what a phylogeny is
What is a molecular clock? How is it used?
What is a cladogram? How do we make it?
Understand monophyletic, paraphyletic, polyphyletic
1.6: Speciation
EQ: What is a species and how does evolutionary change lead to the development of a new species?
Understand that speciation = reproductive isolation (what does this mean?)
Understand the ways that speciation can occur:
Allopatric
Sympatric
Know what a hybrid zone is and why it is important
Understand barriers that exist between species (that lead them to be reproductively isolated)
Prezygotic
Habitat
Temporal
Behavioral
Mechanical
Gametic
Postzygotic:
Reduced hybrid viability
Reduced hybrid fertility
Hybrid breakdown
Know some of the examples at the end of the lecture - important to be able to pull examples at all times