This unit examines the genetic basis of the processes causing evolutionary change in natural and managed populations. It covers the factors that maintain genetic variation within populations and that cause genetic divergence among populations; the origin of species; methods of phylogenetic analysis; and sexual selection. The emphasis is on approaches for analysing the inheritance of quantitative traits and the application of evolutionary thinking to questions in genetics, molecular biology and ecology. This unit has the same theory as ANIM3362 Evolutionary Processes, but has an independent and different laboratory and discussion group program that focuses on molecular and quantitative... -- Course Website
Instructor: Associate Professor Martha Ludwig
Prerequisites: GENE2230 Molecular Genetics I or GENE2250 Principles of Inheritance or GENE2204 Principles of Genetics or GENE2240 Introduction to Genetics