Phylogenetics and Evolution

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Offered autumn semester, odd-numbered years. Prereq., BIOB 260 and BIOB 272 . Phylogenies, or evolutionary trees, provide insights into the history of life on Earth, including our own origins. This course focuses on the theoretical foundations of popular methods of reconstructing phylogenies from molecular sequence data and how to implement these methods with computational software for real data sets. Other current methods for testing evolutionary hypotheses with sequence data will also be introduced. Level: Undergraduate-Graduate