Course Syllabus - Dr. Fourtner - Sections B & C
Date	Audio Section B	Audio Section C	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
M Sept. 4				NO LECTURE - Labor Day							NO LABS
W Sept.6				Evidence for Natural Selection			Chapter 22
M Sept. 11				N.S. and Evidence from Geology			pp 434, 836			"	Skeletal Homology
W Sept. 13				Evidence from Embryology & Anatomy			Chapter 22 & 24				p 516
M Sept. 18				Evidence from Cell and Genetics			Chapter 5				Genetics
W Sept. 20				Evidence from Genetics and Biochemistry			Chapter 11, 12, 13
M Sept. 25				Mutations			Chapters 14 & 15				Natural Selection & Genetic Drift
W Sept. 27				Mutation and evo devo			Chapter 19, 20, 24, 31
F Sept.. 29				EXAM NIGHT			Exams Start at 7:00 pm
M Oct. 2				Yom Kippur - No Lecture							Microscope
W Oct. 4				Population Genetics; Selection			Chapter 21
M Oct. 9				Competition, Predation			Chapter 54				Monera, Protista, Fungi
W Oct. 11				Parasitism			Chapter 52, 54; p 1130				pp 518 - 529; Chap 27, 28, 30
M Oct. 16	Class Cancelled			Sexual and Kin Selection			Chapter 23				Plant Kingdom
W Oct. 18				Species Formation Adaptation			Chapters 4, 23				Chap 29
M Oct. 23				Origin of Living Systems			Chapter 26				Animal Kingdom
W Oct. 25				Virus and Monerans			Chapter 27				Chap 31, 32
M Oct. 30				Monerans and Protists			Chapter 28				Annelides & Arthropods
W Nov. 1				Plants			Chapter 29, 35				Chap 33
F Nov. 3				EXAM NIGHT			Exams Start at 7:00 pm
M Nov. 6				Plant Adaption; Introduction to Flowers			Chapter 41				Mollusks
W Nov.8				Flower and Plant Evolution			Chapter 41				Chapter 33
M Nov. 13				Fungi Cambrian Explosion			Chapter 34; p630				Echinoderms
W Nov. 15				Larval evolution and arthropod and vertebrate explosion			Chapter 34				Chap 33
M Nov. 20			---	Birds			Chapter 34; p 517				No Labs
W Nov. 22	NO LECTURE - FALL RECESS
M Nov. 27				Dinosaurs and Mammals			Chapter 34				Chordates
W Nov. 29				Primates and Human Evolution			Chapter 34				Chap 34
M Dec. 4				Behavioral Aspects of Evolution			Chapter 52				No Labs
W Dec. 6				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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