Evolutionary Biology

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Prerequisite: Completion of the Core Curriculum Research & Professional Writing requirement, BIO 300 or BIO 302, and BIO 304 or equivalent. Advanced lectures on evolution that consider traits, genes, and their interaction with environmental variation. Topics include the basic quantitative methods required to interpret evolutionary change, the consequences of population structure, molecular approaches to phylogenetic studies, and the changes in genetic variation under different models of selection, drift, migration, and mutation.