2017-2018 Academic Catalog 
    
    Jan 15, 2025  
2017-2018 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.