Evolutionary Ecology
Announcements (Updated 2/10)
Hey guys, here is Exam 1. The password is: startnow.
Don't enter it until you are ready to stop talking about the material with your classmates.
It is due over e-mail before class on Thursday. Good luck, don't panic, and have fun!
Please get yourself an Evergreen e-mail account (if you don't already have one), and then sign up for the class email list here.
Also, check out our class discussion list.
Links:
E-mail the entire class.
(Or use this address: evolutionaryecology@lists.evergreen.edu)
Evolutionary Ecology discussion list
Check out this demonstration of the interference between two waves.
Here is a great applet for the interference of three waves.
Assignments:
For Monday, respond to the following question in a paragraph. Bomb-proof is best.
What is natural selection’s relationship to future events? Is there any pattern to selection’s ability
to prepare an organism for the future? Can you predict any pattern in the evolutionary strategies that have
evolved for dealing with temporal patterns?
The Origin of Specious
Old papers are here: Lewontin and Janzen.
Papers for Tuesday the 17th are here: Pianka and Stevens.
Lecture slides:
Slides from first lecture on genetics and evolution.
Slides from the temporal pattern lecture.
Slides from the dimensionless patterns lecture.
Slides from the speciation lectures.
E-mail: Bret Weinstein
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