Teacher
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FRANCHINI Paolo
(syllabus)
1) Introduction: What Is Evolution?; The History of Evolutionary Thought; The Evidence for Evolution; From DNA to Phenotypes.
2) Phylogeny and History of Life: Interpretation of Phylogenetic Trees; Phylogenetic Inference; Molecular Clock Dating; Historical Biogeography and Phylogeography; Concepts in Character Macroevolution: Adaptation, Homology, and Evolvability; Using Phylogenies to Study Phenotypic Evolution: Comparative Methods and Tests of Adaptation; Taxonomy in a Phylogenetic Framework; The Fossil Record; The Origin of Life.
3) Natural Selection and Adaptation: Natural Selection, Adaptation, and Fitness: Overview; Units and Levels of Selection; Theory of Selection in Populations; Kin Selection and Inclusive Fitness; Selection on Quantitative Traits; Responses to Selection: Experimental Populations; Responses to Selection: Natural Populations; Evolutionary Limits and Constraints; Evolution of Modifier Genes and Biological Systems; Evolution of Reaction Norms; Evolution of Life Histories; Evolution of Form and Function; Biochemical and Physiological Adaptations; Evolution of the Ecological Niche; Adaptation to the Biotic Environment.
4) Evolutionary Processes: Mutation; Genetic Drift; Geographic Variation, Population Structure, and Migration; Recombination and Sex; Genetic Load; Inbreeding; Selfish Genetic Elements and Genetic Conflict.
5) Speciation and Macroevolution: Species and Speciation; Speciation Patterns; Geography, Range Evolution, and Speciation; Speciation and Natural Selection; Speciation and Sexual Selection; Gene Flow, Hybridization, and Speciation; Coevolution and Speciation; Genetics of Speciation; Speciation and Genome Evolution; Adaptive Radiation; Macroevolutionary Rates; Macroevolutionary Trends; Causes and Consequences of Extinction; Species Selection; Key Evolutionary Innovations; Evolution of Communities.
(reference books)
1) Evolution. Futuyma DJ and Kirkpatrick M, Oxford University Press Inc, 2017 2) Evolution: Making Sense of Life. Zimmer C, W.H. Freeman & Co Ltd, 2015
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