Students design and complete an independent research project, as well as learn how to write a scientific paper. Three laboratory hours and three class hours per week. Students design and complete an independent research project, as well as learn how to write a scientific paper. Three class hours and three laboratory hours per week. Physiological Ecology A seminar course investigating the physiological adaptations of vertebrates to their environment.
Readings are from the primary literature.
Students design and complete an independent research project, and learn how to write a scientific paper. Three class hours plus three laboratory hours per week. This course will draw on the various disciplines within biology as they are applied in the very rapidly changing field of conservation biology. Examination of Neo-Darwinian theories of adaptation and natural selection as well as competing scientific explanations of evolutionary change. Assessment of contemporary criticism of Darwinian theory.