Course Syllabus - Dr. Herreid - Section A
Date	Audio	Visuals	Lecture Topic			Readings			Key Words	Laboratory
M Aug.28			Course Introduction							Classification.& Evolution
W Aug.30			Science as a Way of Knowing			Chapter 1				pp 509 - 517
F Sept. 1			Introducing Mr. Darwin			Chapter 1			"
M Sept. 4			NO LECTURE - Labor Day							NO LABS
W Sept.6			Darwin's Evidence			Chapter 22
F Sept.8			Darwin's Evidence			Chapter 22			"
M Sept. 11			Evolution by Acquired Characteristics			pp 434, 836			"	Skeletal Homology
W Sept. 13			Evolution from Fossil Record			Chapter 22			"	p 516
F Sept. 15			Evidence from Anatomy & Embryology			Chapters 22 & 44
M Sept. 18			Evidence from the Cell			Chapter 5				Genetics
W Sept. 20			Evidence from Genetics			Chapter 13
F Sept. 22			Evidence from Genetics			Chapters 11, 12, 13
M Sept. 25			Evidence from Biochemistry			Chapters 14 & 15				Natural Selection & Genetic Drift
W Sept. 27			Mutation			Chapters 20, 19, 31, 24
F Sept. 29			Population Genetics			Chapter 21
F Sept.. 29			EXAM NIGHT			Exams Start at 5:00 pm
M Oct. 2			Yom Kippur - No Lecture							Microscope
W Oct. 4			Selection			Chapter 21
F Oct. 6			Selection - Competition and Mutualism			Chapter 54
M Oct. 9			Selection - Parasitism and Predation			Chapter 54				Monera, Protista, Fungi
W Oct. 11			Selection - Sexual an Kin Selection			Chapter 52; p 1130				pp 518 - 529; Chap 27, 28, 30
F Oct. 13			Species Formation			Chapter 23
M Oct. 16	Class Cancelled		Adaptation and Intelligent Design?			Chapters 23				Plant Kingdom
W Oct. 18			Origin of Life			Chapter 4				Chap 29
F Oct. 20			Viruses			Chapter 26
M Oct. 23			Origin of Life/ / HIV			Chapter 27				Animal Kingdom
W Oct. 25			Viruses / Prokaryotes			Chapter 27				Chap 31, 32
F Oct. 27			Protista			Chapter 28
M Oct. 30			Plantae - Kinds of Plants			Chapter 29				Annelides & Arthropods
W Nov. 1			Plantae - Adaptations			Chapter 35				Chap 33
F Nov. 3			Plantae - Flowers and Pollinators			Chapter 41
F Nov. 3			EXAM NIGHT			Exams Start at 5:00 pm
M Nov. 6			Fungi/Plantae - Flowers and Pollinators			Chapter 41				Mollusks
W Nov.8			Fungi/Animalia: Cambrian Explosion			p 630				Chapter 33
F Nov. 10			Cambrian Ex / Animalia: Origin of Vertebrates			Chapter 34
M Nov. 13			Vertebrates/Animalia: Adaptation to Land			Chapter 34				Echinoderms
W Nov. 15			Adaptation to Land			Chapter 34				Chap 33
F Nov. 17			Animalia: Dinosaurs			Chapter 34; p 517
M Nov. 20			Animalia: Mammals			Chapter 34				No Labs
W Nov. 22	NO LECTURE - FALL RECESS
F Nov. 24	NO LECTURE - FALL RECESS
M Nov. 27			Animalia: Primates			Chapter 34				Chordates
W Nov. 29			Animalia: Humans			Chapter 34				Chap 34
F Dec. 1			Evolution of Hate, Aggression, and War			Chapter 52
M Dec. 4			Evolution of Sex & Love			Chapter 52				No Labs
W Dec. 6			Evolution of Sex & Love			pp 237 - 238
F Dec. 8			Extinction			pp 237 - 238
Sat & Sun Dec. 9 &10	LAB PRACTICAL EXAM - SATURDAY AND SUNDAY
BIO 200 FINAL EXAM - Tuesday December 12th at 11:45

A list of General Evolution and Evolutionary Biology Internet/World-Wide Web sites has been compiled to augment the lists in the above table. Here you will find sites that discuss the "Evolution-Creation" debate, as well as sites that discuss evolution from a general or broad-based perspective.

All readings are from the text:
Evolutionary Biology:Biology 7th Edition by P. Raven & G. Johnson (2005). McGraw-Hill Pub., NYC, NY

Instructor: Dr. Clyde Herreid, herreid@buffalo.edu
Instructor: Dr. Charles Fourtner, fourtner@buffalo.edu
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