Principles of Evolution, Ecology and Behavior (EEB 122) Yale
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This course presents the principles of evolution, ecology, and behavior for students beginning their study of biology and of the environment. It discusses major ideas and results in a manner accessible to all Yale College undergraduates. Recent advances
have energized these fields with results that have implications well beyond their boundaries: ideas, mechanisms, and processes that should form part of the toolkit of all biologists and educated citizens.
Resources: OpenCourseware from MIT, UC Berkeley, Stanford & many other of the World's finest University's.
Language: English
Professors: Michael Williams
Units: 36
Lesson content
- Lec 1. The Nature of Evolution: Selection, Inherit...
- Lec 2. Basic Transmission Genetics
- Lec 3. Adaptive Evolution: Natural Selection
- Lec 4. Neutral Evolution: Genetic Drift
- Lec 5. How Selection Changes the Genetic Composition of Population
- Lec 6. The Origin and Maintenance of Genetic Variation
- Lec 7. The Importance of Development in Evolution
- Lec 8. The Expression of Variation: Reaction Norms
- Lec 9. The Evolution of Sex
- Lec 10. Genomic Conflict
- Lec 11. Life History Evolution
- Lec 12. Sex Allocation
- Lec 13. Sexual Selection
- Lec 14. Species and Speciation
- Lec 15. Phylogeny and Systematics
- Lec 16. Comparative Methods: Trees, Maps, and Traits
- Lec 17. Key Events in Evolution
- Lec 18. Major Events in the Geological Theatre
- Lec 19. The Fossil Record and Life's History
- Lec 20. Coevolution
- Lec 21. Evolutionary Medicine
- Lec 22. The Impact of Evolutionary Thought on the Social Sciences
- Lec 23. The Logic of Science
- Lec 24. Climate and the Distribution of Life on Earth
- Lec 25. Interactions with the Physical Environment
- Lec 26. Population Growth: Density Effects
- Lec 27. Interspecific Competition
- Lec 28. Ecological Communities
- Lec 29. Island Biogeography and Invasive Species
- Lec 30. Energy and Matter in Ecosystems
- Lec 31. Why So Many Species? The Factors Affecting Biodiversity
- Lec 32. Economic Decisions for the Foraging Individual
- Lec 33. Evolutionary Game Theory: Fighting and Contests
- Lec 34. Mating Systems and Parental Care
- Lec 35. Alternative Breeding Strategies
- Lec 36. Selfishness and Altruism
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