The course emphasis will be on studying adaptation, practicing the scientific method, designing observations and experiments, and communicating scientific information. Prerequisites Biology 251 and Mathematics 124 or 131. Offered spring, 2002. Ecology Study of the distribution and abundance of organisms and of relationships between organisms and environments. Laboratories emphasize quantitative analysis and experimental design in ecology and include several field projects.
Lectures focus on the development of ecological concepts and theory.
Three lectures and one laboratory per week. Prerequisite Biology 236, or Bio 252, or instructor permission. Offered fall, 2001. Technological disparities between human populations have repeatedly allowed groups with considerable technological access to dominate other groups whose access was more limited. Next offered fall, 2001.