| Week 1 |
27-Aug |
1. Introduction. Course
goals and procedures. |
| |
29-Aug |
2. Folk taxonomies.
Historical development of systematics: Greeks through Linnaeus. |
| |
31-Aug |
3. Historical
development of systematics: Darwin through the Evolutionary Synthesis. |
| Week 2 |
3-Sep |
4. Concept
of the population. Population structure. |
| |
5-Sep |
5. The Neodarwinian
view of species. Polytypic species and geographic differentiation. |
| |
7-Sep |
6. Homology:
the central concept in comparative biology. |
| Week 3 |
10-Sep |
7. Character
systems: morphology. Version with Audio |
| |
12-Sep |
8. Character
systems: allozymes. |
| |
14-Sep |
9. Character
systems: mitochondrial DNA. |
| Week 4 |
17-Sep |
10. Character
systems: protein-coding DNA |
| |
19-Sep |
11. Character
systems: ribosomal DNA. |
| |
21-Sep |
12. Character
systems: microsatellites. |
| Week 5 |
24-Sep |
13. Evolutionary
systematics: weighting of characters. |
| |
26-Sep |
14. Phenetic
methods: measures of distance and association. |
| |
28-Sep |
15. Phenetics:
clustering algorithms. Ultrametric and non-ultrametric clustering methods.. |
| Week 6 |
1-Oct |
16. Phenetics:
Summary and critique. |
| |
3-Oct |
17. Phylogenetic
systematics: philosophical foundations, terminology |
| |
5-Oct |
18. Phylogenetics:
determination of character polarity. |
| Week 7 |
8-Oct |
19. Phylogenetics:
resolution of conflicting data, the parsimony
criterion. |
| |
10-Oct |
20. Phylogenetics:
tree building algorithms |
| |
12-Oct |
21. Phylogenetics:
numerical parsimony methods |
| Week 8 |
15-Oct |
23. Phylogenetics:
assessing the robustness of results |
| |
17-Oct |
24. Phylogenetics:
maximum likelihood methods |
| |
19-Oct |
25. Phylogenetics:
Bayesian methods |
| Week 9 |
22-Oct |
26. Phylogenetics:
Applying the results in classifications, evolutionary systematics
revisited. |
| |
24-Oct |
27. Phylogenetics:
conclusion - Audio Version Lectures 26+27 |
| |
26-Oct |
28. Introduction
to speciation theory, allopatric speciation |
| Week 10 |
29-Oct |
29. Semispecies,
ring species and related problems. The problem of reinforcement of reproductive
isolation. |
| |
31-Oct |
30. Species
concepts: biological, phenetic, recognition |
| |
2-Nov |
31. Species
concepts: recognition species and parthenogenetic systems. |
| Week 11 |
5-Nov |
32. Sympatric Speciation |
| |
7-Nov |
33. A case
study in speciation: the Hawaiian Drosophila |
| |
9-Nov |
34. Hybrid zones, species boundaries, parapatric speciation |
| Week 12 |
12-Nov |
35.
Species
concepts: evolutionary, phylogenetic, summary and conclusion, cohesion species |
| |
14-Nov |
37. Zoological
Nomenclature 1 (there is no Lecture 36!) |
| |
16-Nov |
38. Zoological
Nomenclature 2 |
| Week 13 |
19-Nov |
39. Zoological
nomenclature 3 |
| |
21-Nov |
40. Zoological nomenclature 4 |
| |
23-Nov |
Thanksgiving holiday |
| Week 14 |
26-Nov |
41. Zoological nomenclature, conclusions. and 42. Analytical Biogeography. |
| |
28-Nov |
43. Nested Clade Analysis |
| |
30-Nov |
44. Future Trends and New Possibilities |
| Week 15 |
Dec. 5 |
45. Class discussion
and course critique |