Three class hours per week. Students design and complete an independent research project, analyze and discuss scientific literature, and learn how to write a scientific paper. Three laboratory hours and three class hours per week. Students design and complete an independent research project, analyze and discuss scientific literature, and learn how to write a scientific paper. Three class hours and three laboratory hours per week.
Readings are from the primary literature.
Students design and complete and independent research project and learn how to write a scientific paper. Three class hours and three laboratory hours each week. 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. Three class hours per week in seminar format with emphasis on reading of primary literature and discussion.