Understanding Evolution-Berkley

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• An introduction to evolution
  Evolution briefly defined and explained
• The history of life: looking at the patterns
  How does evolution lead to the tree of life?
• Mechanisms: the processes of evolution
  How does evolution work?
• Microevolution
  How does evolution work on a small scale?
• Speciation
  What are species anyway, and how do new ones evolve?
• Macroevolution
  How does evolution work on a grand scale?
• The big issues
  What are some of the big questions that evolutionary biologists are trying to answer?

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Evolution 101 Table of Contents

1.	An introduction to evolution Evolution briefly defined and explained

2.	The history of life: looking at the patterns How does evolution lead to the tree of life?

• The family tree
• Understanding phylogenies
• Building the tree
• Homologies and analogies
• Using the tree for classification
• Adding time to the tree
• How we know what happened when
• Important events in the history of life
• Mechanisms: the processes of evolution
  How does evolution work?
  

• Descent with modification
• Mechanisms of change
• Genetic variation
• Mutations
• The causes of mutations
• Gene flow
• Sex and genetic shuffling
• Development
• Genetic drift
• Natural selection
• What about fitness?
• Sexual selection
• Artificial selection
• Adaptation
• Misconceptions about natural selection
• Coevolution
• Microevolution
• How does evolution work on a small scale?

• Defining microevolution
• Detecting microevolutionary change
• Mechanisms of microevolution
• Speciation
• What are species anyway, and how do new ones evolve?

• Defining a species
• Defining speciation
• Causes of speciation
• Reproductive isolation
• Evidence for speciation
• Cospeciation
• Macroevolution
  How does evolution work on a grand scale?

• What is macroevolution?
• Patterns in macroevolution
• The big issues
  What are some of the big questions that evolutionary biologists are trying to answer?

• The pace of evolution
• Diversity in clades
• Looking at complexity
• Trends in evolution

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