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Introduction to evolution, biodiversity and deep time
Basic concepts of neo darwinian e...,
An introduction to biodiversity d...,
Deep time and its classification
6
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Classifying life and reconstructing phylogenies
Taxonomy and phylogeny,
Classification systems,
Cladistic analysis definition
12
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Origin of life
The rna world
1
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Origin of Prokaryotes and Eukaryotes
Evidence for early prokaryote life,
The environment becomes aerobic
2
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Origin of sex and Multicellular organisms
Origin of sex,
Origin of multicellular life
2
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The Cambrian explosion of animal life
The origin of metazoans multicell...,
The ediacara fauna,
Phosphatized embryos
4
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The evidence for evolution
0
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Natural selection
What is natural selection,
Continuous variation,
Discrete variation
5
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Evolution at the gene level
How does gene selection differ fr...,
What difference does this make
2
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Natural selection in the wild
Examples of evolution in action,
Applications disease epidemiology
2
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Sexual selection
What is sexual selection,
Monogamy,
Polygamy
8
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Individual selection and altruism
Problems in conservation,
Extinction risk correlates,
Prioritising species
3
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Speciation
Biological species and reproducti...,
Gene flow and disruptive selection,
Allopatric speciation
8
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Macroevolution
Macroevolution,
Rates of evolutionary changegradu...,
Why do gaps appear in the fossil ...
5
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Extinction
Types of extinction,
Why do species go extinct,
Species selection
3
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Where does genetic variation come from?
Describe how mutation causes vari...
1
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Mendel and inheritance
Independent assortment,
Dominant and recessive alleles
2
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Mendelian inheritance in humans
0
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Chromosomes, linkage and recombination
The first linkage maps,
Recombination and the spread of n...
2
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Introduction to population genetics
Define locus loci,
Define allele,
Define diploid organism
10
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Natural selection II
Examples of natural selection,
Understand different forms of nat...,
How natural selection can affect ...
3
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Inbreeding and Inbreeding depression
Inbreeding,
Genetic variation in small isolat...,
Conservation genetics
4
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Human population genetics
When and where humans emerged as ...,
When humans colonised the world,
How humans have adapted to climate
4
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Quantitative genetics
Types of variation discrete,
Types of variation continuous,
Types of variation threshold
5
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Artificial and Natural Selection of quantitative traits
Competition for resources,
Differences in fitness that depen...,
Selection on quantitative traits
4
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need to learn
Prokaryotes and eukaryotes,
Origin and early history of plane...,
Origin of life
24
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