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Macro-evolution

Macro-evolution. format: "guided" reading basic papers additional papers. evaluation: didactic skills (presentation additional papers) pugnacity (during debates) knowledge, understanding: traditional exam (oral, written prep). http://webh01.ua.ac.be/funmorph/raoul/. S.

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Macro-evolution

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  1. Macro-evolution • format: "guided" reading • basic papers • additional papers • evaluation: • didactic skills (presentation additional papers) • pugnacity (during debates) • knowledge, understanding: traditional exam (oral, written prep) http://webh01.ua.ac.be/funmorph/raoul/

  2. S grand sweep of evolution visible to the comparative anatomist and paleontologist minute effects visible to the naturalist and experimentalist ? = The grand question

  3. The protagonists (a) the "revolutionists" Stephen Jay Gould (1941-2002) http://www.stephenjaygould.org/

  4. The protagonists (a) the "revolutionists" Niles Eldredge (°1943) http://www.nileseldredge.com/

  5. The protagonists (a) the "revolutionists" Elisabeth Vrba (°1942) http://earth.geology.yale.edu/~vrba/

  6. The protagonists (b) Darwin's defenders John Maynard Smith (1920-2004)

  7. The protagonists (b) Darwin's defenders Richard Dawkins (1941) http://users.ox.ac.uk/~dawkins/

  8. The protagonists (b) Darwin's defenders Daniel Dennett (1942) http://ase.tufts.edu/cogstud/incbios/dennettd/dennettd.htm

  9. The topics • punctuated equilibrium vs phyletic gradualism • species sorting • speciation • macro-evolutionary trends • the role of mass extinctions • radiations • genomic evolution • evo-devo as a bridge between micro and macro

  10. Topic 1 clash of the titans: punctuated equilibrium vs phyletic gradualism Eldredge N. 1971. The allopatric model and phylogeny in Paleozoic invertebrates. Evolution 25: 156-157. Eldredge N. & Gould S.J. 1972. Punctuated equilibrium: an alternative to phyletic gradualism. pp. 82-116 In 'Models in Palaeobiology' (T.J.M. Schopf, ed.) Freeman, Cooper & Co, San Francisco.

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