270 likes | 471 Views
Macro-evolution. format : processes in macro-evolution (classes + reading ) patterns in macroevolution : major transitions ( project ). evaluation : traditional examination (classes + reading ) project. http://webh01.ua.ac.be/funmorph/raoul/. Processes 1. Speciation
E N D
Macro-evolution • format: • processes in macro-evolution (classes + reading) • patterns in macroevolution: major transitions (project) • evaluation: • traditionalexamination (classes + reading) • project http://webh01.ua.ac.be/funmorph/raoul/
Processes 1. Speciation 2. Rates of evolution 3. Extinction and radiation 4. Trends in macro-evolution 5. Evolutionary developmental biology 6. Evolutionary genomics
Patterns 1. Agree on list 24Feb 2. Partition list 24Feb 3. Agree on format 3Mar 4. First draft 31Mar 5. Final draft 28Apr 6. Online 5May
Maynard-Smith J. & Szathmary E. 1995. The major transitions in evolution. Oxford University Press. • Replicating molecules populations of molecules in compartments • Independent replicators chromosomes • RNA as genes and enzymes DNA as genes and proteins as enzymes • Prokaryotes Eukaryotes • Asexual clones sexual populations • Protists multicellular organisms • Solitary individuals colonies with non-reproductive casts • Primate societies human societies, with language, and memes
Lane N. 2009. Life ascending-The ten great inventions of evolution. Norton & Company, New York • The origin of life – the last common ancestor of all life on earth • The code of life – RNA and DNA • Photosynthesis • Complex cells • Sex • Movement • Sight • Hot blood • Consciousness • Death
S grand sweep of evolution visible to the comparative anatomist and paleontologist minute effects visible to the naturalist and experimentalist ? = The grand question
The protagonists (a) the "revolutionists" Stephen Jay Gould (1941-2002) http://www.stephenjaygould.org/
The protagonists (a) the "revolutionists" Stephen Jay Gould Bermuda
The protagonists (a) the "revolutionists" Stephen Jay Gould Bermuda land snail Poecilozonites Bermuda Peanutsnail Poecilozonites
The protagonists (a) the "revolutionists" Stephen Jay Gould Bermuda land snail Poecilozonites Octala Wolf snail Euglandina
The protagonists (a) the "revolutionists" Stephen Jay Gould
The protagonists (a) the "revolutionists" Stephen Jay Gould Gould S. J. & Lewontin R. C. 1979. The spandrels of San Marco and the Panglossian Paradigm: A critique of the AdaptationistProgramme. Proc. R. Soc. London B: 205: 581-598.
The protagonists (a) the "revolutionists" Stephen Jay Gould
The protagonists (a) the "revolutionists" Stephen Jay Gould
The protagonists (a) the "revolutionists" Stephen Jay Gould
The protagonists (a) the "revolutionists" Niles Eldredge (°1943) http://www.nileseldredge.com/
The protagonists (a) the "revolutionists" Niles Eldredge Phacopida (Paleozoic trilobites)
The protagonists (a) the "revolutionists" Niles Eldredge
The protagonists (a) the "revolutionists" Niles Eldredge
The protagonists (a) the "revolutionists" Elisabeth Vrba (°1942) http://earth.geology.yale.edu/~vrba/
The protagonists (b) Darwin's defenders John Maynard Smith (1920-2004)
The protagonists (b) Darwin's defenders John Maynard Smith
The protagonists (b) Darwin's defenders Richard Dawkins (1941) http://users.ox.ac.uk/~dawkins/
The protagonists (b) Darwin's defenders Richard Dawkins
The protagonists (b) Darwin's defenders Daniel Dennett (1942) http://ase.tufts.edu/cogstud/incbios/dennettd/dennettd.htm
The protagonists (b) Darwin's defenders Daniel Dennett