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Macro-evolution

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

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Macro-evolution

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  1. 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/

  2. Processes 1. Speciation 2. Rates of evolution 3. Extinction and radiation 4. Trends in macro-evolution 5. Evolutionary developmental biology 6. Evolutionary genomics

  3. 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

  4. 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

  5. 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

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

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

  8. The protagonists (a) the "revolutionists" Stephen Jay Gould Bermuda

  9. The protagonists (a) the "revolutionists" Stephen Jay Gould Bermuda land snail Poecilozonites Bermuda Peanutsnail Poecilozonites

  10. The protagonists (a) the "revolutionists" Stephen Jay Gould Bermuda land snail Poecilozonites Octala Wolf snail Euglandina

  11. The protagonists (a) the "revolutionists" Stephen Jay Gould

  12. 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.

  13. The protagonists (a) the "revolutionists" Stephen Jay Gould

  14. The protagonists (a) the "revolutionists" Stephen Jay Gould

  15. The protagonists (a) the "revolutionists" Stephen Jay Gould

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

  17. The protagonists (a) the "revolutionists" Niles Eldredge Phacopida (Paleozoic trilobites)

  18. The protagonists (a) the "revolutionists" Niles Eldredge

  19. The protagonists (a) the "revolutionists" Niles Eldredge

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

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

  22. The protagonists (b) Darwin's defenders John Maynard Smith

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

  24. The protagonists (b) Darwin's defenders Richard Dawkins

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

  26. The protagonists (b) Darwin's defenders Daniel Dennett

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