Catalog 2024-2025

BIO 400 Evolution

A study of the scientific foundations of evolutionary theory and the mechanisms responsible for evolutionary change. Topics covered include a historical perspective of evolution, origin of life, natural selection and adaptation, levels of selection, fitness concepts, speciation, Darwinian evolution and punctuated equilibria, extinction, the fossil record, life history evolution and human evolution. Lecture only.

Baccalaureate Experience

(NS-Biological)

Credits

4

Prerequisite

Biology lower-core curriculum.

Distribution

(Category III, PP)

Offered

fall and spring semesters