LECTURE OUTLINE:

    Introduction - .ppt

Part 1 The Mechanisms of Evolution (Weeks 1-2)

A: Descent with modification. – Chapter 22 - .ppt

B: The evolution of populations. – Chapter 23 - .ppt

C: The origin of species. – Chapter 24 - .ppt

D: Phylogeny and Systematics. – Chapter 25 - .ppt

Part 2 Evolutionary History of Biodiversity (Weeks 3-8)

A: Early earth and the origin of life – Chapter 26 - .ppt

B: Prokaryotes - Bacteria and Archaea – Chapter 27 - .ppt

C: Protists – Chapter 28 - .ppt

D: Plant diversity I: How plants colonized land – Chapter 29 - .ppt

E. Plant diversity II: The evolution of seed plants – Chapter 30 - .ppt

F: Fungi – Chapter 31 - .ppt

G: Introduction to animal evolution. – Chapter 32 - .ppt

H: Invertebrates - Introduction and Lophophorates – Chapter 33 - .ppt

    Invertebrates - The Ecdysozoans – Chapter 33 - .ppt

I: Vertebrate evolution and diversity – Chapter 34 - .ppt

    Tetrapods and the invasion of the land - Chapter 34 - .ppt

Part 3 Ecology (Weeks 9-12)

A: Behavioural biology – Chapter 51 - .ppt

B: Introduction to ecology and the biosphere – Chapter 52 - .ppt

C: Biomes - Chapter 52 - .ppt

D: Population ecology – Chapter 53 - .ppt

E: Community ecology – Chapter 54 - .ppt

F: Ecosystems – Chapter 55 - .ppt