Prerequisites: BIOL 005C with a grade of “C-” or better, BIOL 102, CHEM 008C and CHEM 08LC, or CHEM 08HC and CHEM 08HLC, MATH 007B or MATH 009B or MATH 09HB, PHYS 002C, PHYS 02LC, BCH 100 or BCH 110A, one course in statistics; or consent of instructor
Description: Covers the causal interpretation of organic diversity and adaptation. Topics include inference of evolutionary change from the fossil record and from genomic and molecular pat- terns; microevolution and macroevolution; systematics and the species problem; and natural selection, drift, and other forces of evolution.