Answers to practice questions for Rebecca Irwin'scourse in Organic Evolution.

TABLE OF CONTENTS; listed by lab manual section

NOTE: answers will not be available until AFTER they have been discussed during discussion section.
  1. Introduction to Evolution: The Evolution of HIV (see your text book to work out answers for this section)
  2. Natural Selection and Mutation
  3. Scientific and Religious Explanations (see the assigned readings to work out answers)
  4. Population Genetic Models: understanding the models, practice problems
  5. Genetic Drift, Gene Flow and Their Interaction with Natural Selection
  6. Population Genetic Models: Predicted Long-Term Results (to be learned from computer assignment, answers not given)
  7. Correcting Common Misconceptions About Evolution and Natural Selection
  8. Frequency Dependent Selection etc.
  9. Evolution of Polygenic Traits
  10. The Scientific Method and Evidence for Evolution
  11. Principles of Phylogenetic Analysis
  12. Phylogenetic Analysis and Molecular Evolution
  13. Speciation
  14. Adaptation and Phylogenetic Contingency
  15. Biogeography
  16. The Origin of Life: see the assigned reading
  17. Species Selection, Adaptive Radiation
  18. Embryogeny, Gene Regulation, and Evolution
  19. Levels of Selection, Social Behavior and Altruism
  20. The Evolution of Sex
  21. Sexual Selection