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BIOEE 464 Macroevolution. Offered alternate springs, even numbered years. Next offered Spring 2002. 4credits. Limited to 25 students. Prerequisite: BIOES 278 or permission of instructor. S-U grades optional, with permission of instructor. Lecs, T R 10:10-11:25; disc, 1 hour each week TBA. A. R. McCune. An advanced course in evolutionary biology centered on large-scale features of evolution. Areas of emphasis include, phylogeny reconstruction and its applications, speciation and extinction, the origin of variation, and causes of major evolutionary transitions. Discussion of these topics involve data and approaches from genetics, morphology, systematics, paleobiology, development, and ecology. Reading is from the primary literature. Evaluation based on discussion and take-home essays.
BIOEE 476 Biology of Fishes. Offered alternate falls, even numbered years. Next offered Fall 2002. 4 credits. Limited to 24 students. Recommended: BIOES 274 or equivalent experience in vertebrate zoology. S-U grades optional, with permission of instructor. Lecs, M W F 10:10; lab, M 1:25-4:25; with additional lab time TBA; 2 field trips. A. R. McCune. An introduction to the study of fishes: their structure, evolution, distribution, ecology, physiology, behavior, classification, and identification, with emphasis on local species. Two field trips, including one full day weekend trip required. Live animals are studied in the field and are sometimes used in the laboratory for nondestructive demonstrations or experiments. The systematics and dissection laboratories use preserved specimens.
BIOG 400 Development and Evolution. One-time only, offered Fall 1999. A. McCune and M.Wolfner. http://www.mbg.cornell.edu/biogd480/biogd480.html This class was organized around a series of public lectures in the burgeoning field of Development and Evolution, the study of the origin of phenotypic variation and phenotypic transformation in evolution. Five eminent speakers were invited to campus to present two lectures each. Students read and discussed 4-6 papers by each speaker in advance of each visit and then met with each speaker during his visit. Speakers included:
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