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Lecture 1
Five characteristics of living th...,
Spontaneous generation,
Pasteur
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Lecture 2
Artificial selection,
How fast artificial selection can...,
How far artificial selection can ...
9
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Lecture 3
Giraffes and why they have long n...,
Evidence for evolution fossils,
Evidence for evolution dna from e...
7
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Lecture 4
Vestigial trait,
Homology,
Genetic homology
4
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Lecture 5
Myths evolution is goal oriented,
Myths evolution produces a hierar...,
Myths of evolution
11
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Lecture 6
Heterozygote advantage,
What needs to happen for the hete...
2
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Lecture 7
Directional selection,
Example of directional selection,
Stabilizing selection
14
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Lecture 8
Gene flow,
Example of gene flow,
Nonrandom mating
17
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Lecture 9
Reasons for sexual selection,
Female choice,
Male male competition
15
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Lecture 10
Problems with biological species ...,
Problems with morphological speci...,
Problems with phylogenetic specie...
12
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Lecture 11
Hybrid zones,
Other possible outcomes of hybrid...,
Reinforcement
10
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Lecture 12
Cryptic species,
Dna barcoding,
Goals of dna barcoding
7
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Lecture 13
Historical extinction,
Island fauna extinction,
Extinction of once abundant fauna
21
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Lecture 14
Spatial colinearity,
Temporal colinearity,
Quantitative colinearity
8
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Lecture 15
Angiosperm,
Gymnosperm,
Climate when mammals diversified
18
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Lecture 16
Social systems gibbons,
Social systems orangutans,
Social systems gorillas
11
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Lecture 17
Hunting,
Three types of foraging,
Hunting and extractive food forag...
15
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Lecture 18
Lower pleistocene,
Middle pleistocene,
Upper pleistocene
16
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Lecture 19
Recent out of africa hypothesis,
Multiregional hypothesis,
Characteristics of homo florensis
7
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Lecture 20
Human demography,
3 demographic transitions,
Biodiversity
11
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Lecture 21
Proximate,
Ultimate,
Evidence for genetic component to...
7
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Lecture 22
Instinct,
Learning,
Call types of cockatoos and galahs
10
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Lecture 23
Wynne edwardsian view of life,
Altruism,
Hamiltons rule
3
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Lecture 24
Reciprocal altruism,
1st increase in brain size,
Natural selection for larger brai...
5
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Lecture 25
Human activity not shared by othe...,
Characteristics of homo sapiens,
Genetic code is redundant
8
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Lecture 26
Chimps skin colour,
Skin colour is constitutive,
Melanin
10
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Lecture 27
Shared human characteristics,
Example of inbreeding avoidance b...,
Lactose malabsorption
3
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Lecture 28
Intrasexual selection,
Intersexual selection,
Ansiogamy
6
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Lecture 29
Culture,
Meme,
Ecology
26
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Lecture 30
Mark recapture,
Mark recapture equation,
General growth equation
8
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Lecture 31
Continuous growth,
Life history,
Type 1 curve convex
16
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Lecture 32
Community,
Mutualism,
Consumption
17
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Lecture 33
Aposematic colouration,
Mimicry,
Keystone species
15
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Lecture 34
Shannon index,
Energy hypothesis,
Intermediate disturbance hypothesis
8
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Lecture 35
Species at risk for extinction be...,
Value of biodiversity,
Commercial value
7
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