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4.00 Credits
Lecture, three hours; discussion, two hours. Requisites: course 100, Life Sciences 1. Introduction to behavioral ecology. Methods and results of evolutionary approaches to study of animal behavior, including foraging strategies, social competition, sexual selection, mating systems, cooperation, and social organization. Letter grading.
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4.00 Credits
Lecture, three hours; discussion, one hour. Not open to life sciences majors. Limited to 100 students. Introduction to biology within framework of evolutionary theory. Relationships of evolutionary thought to other areas of knowledge and society. Natural selection and origin of variation examined in context of genetics, molecular biology, physiology, phylogeny, population dynamics, behavior, and ecology. Emphasis on critical role of historical processes. P/NP or letter grading.
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4.00 Credits
Lecture, three hours; discussion, two hours. Requisite: Life Sciences 1. Recommended: courses 120, 135. Concepts, principles, and methods of comparative biology as they apply to inference of evolutionary relationships among organisms. Principles and application of biological nomenclature. Letter grading.
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8.00 Credits
Lecture, two hours; laboratory/field trip, 10 hours. Requisites: course 100, Life Sciences 1. Recommended: course 129. Five-week course offered only as part of Field Biology Quarter. Field research in behavioral ecology, emphasizing animal communication. Design and execution of individual and small group field projects during extended field trip. Letter grading.
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4.00 Credits
Lecture, three hours; laboratory, two hours; discussion, one hour. Requisites: Life Sciences 1, 2, 3, 4, Mathematics 3A, 3B, and 3C, or 31A and 31B. Strongly recommended: elementary statistics course. Introduction of basic core mathematical ideas and models necessary to understand contemporary ecology and evolutionary biology. Population ecology and growth, community ecology, population genetics, natural selection. P/NP or letter grading.
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5.00 Credits
Lecture, three hours; laboratory, two hours; two two-day field trips per term. Requisite: Life Sciences 1. Recommended: course 100. Consideration of physiological, behavioral, morphological, and ecological mechanisms desert animals use to enhance their survival in arid habitat. Letter grading.
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8.00 Credits
Field course. Requisite: Life Sciences 1. Recommended: course 100. Two weeks of off-campus research projects with two-week lecture course (four hours per day) and offered only as part of Field Biology Quarter. Consideration of physiological, behavioral, morphological, and ecological mechanisms desert animals use to enhance their survival in arid habitat. Students carry out supervised research projects, then write up and orally present their results in seminar fashion. Letter grading.
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4.00 Credits
Lecture, three hours; discussion, one hour. Requisite: Life Sciences 4. Strongly recommended: course 100, Mathematics 31A, 31B. Basic principles of genetics of population, dealing with genetic structure of natural populations and mechanisms of evolution. Equilibrium conditions and forces altering gene frequencies, polygenic inheritance, molecular evolution, and methods of quantitative genetics. Letter grading.
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6.00 Credits
Lecture, four hours; laboratory, eight hours; field trips, six and one half days per term. Requisites: course 100, Life Sciences 1, Mathematics 3C or 32A. Strongly recommended: course 120 or 122 or 129. Designed for Ecology, Behavior, and Evolution majors. Laboratory and field exercises on population genetics, growth, and regulation; competition and predation; behavioral interactions; species' diversity and distribution. Methodological aspects from theoretical models and computer simulations to laboratory and garden experiments to fieldwork. Mandatory field trips, including two weekend trips. Letter grading.
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4.00 Credits
Lecture, three hours; discussion, one hour. Requisites: Chemistry 14A, 14B, 14BL, 14C, 14CL, and 14D, or 20A, 20B, 20L, 30A, 30AL, 30B, and 30BL, Life Sciences 1, 2, 3. Chemical signals are most important means by which organisms communicate. Exploration of how chemical signals are produced, transported, and influence behavior of microbes, plants, and animals. Synthetic approach, with emphasis on applications to cell biology, physiology, and ecology. P/NP or letter grading.
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