2016-2017 Academic Catalog 
    
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2016-2017 Academic Catalog [Archived Catalog]

BIOL 270 - Evolution


Credits: Four (4)
Prerequisite: BIOL-118, and BIOL-260
Corequisite: BIOL-270L

This course will provide a foundation that students will use to understand (and integrate) all other biological disciplines. The student will gain an understanding of the causes and consequences of organismal change through time. Topics will include the genetic basis of change, change at the population level, phenotypic change within lineages, macroevolutionary change across geologic time scales and the mechanisms of speciation.