Macro-evolution

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• format:• processes in macro-evolution (classes + reading)• patterns in macroevolution: major transitions (project)

• evaluation:• traditional examination (classes + reading)• project

Processes

1. Speciation2. Rates of evolution3. Extinction and radiation4. Trends in macro-evolution5. Evolutionary developmental biology6. Evolutionary genomics

Patterns

1. Agree on list 24Feb2. Partition list 24Feb3. Agree on format 3Mar4. First draft 31Mar5. Final draft 28Apr6. Online 5May

Maynard-Smith J. & Szathmary E. 1995. The major transitions in evolution. Oxford University Press.

• Replicating molecules populations of molecules in compartments• Independent replicators chromosomes• RNA as genes and enzymes DNA as genes and proteins as enzymes• Prokaryotes Eukaryotes• Asexual clones sexual populations• Protists multicellular organisms• Solitary individuals colonies with non-reproductive casts• Primate societies human societies, with language, and memes

Lane N. 2009. Life ascending-The ten great inventions of evolution. Norton & Company, New York

• The origin of life – the last common ancestor of all life on earth• The code of life – RNA and DNA• Photosynthesis• Complex cells• Sex• Movement• Sight• Hot blood• Consciousness• Death

The grand question

minute effects visible to thenaturalist and experimentalist

grand sweep of evolutionvisible to the comparative anatomist

and paleontologist

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The protagonists(a) the "revolutionists"

Stephen Jay Gould (1941-2002)http://www.stephenjaygould.org/

The protagonists(a) the "revolutionists"

Bermuda

Stephen Jay Gould

The protagonists(a) the "revolutionists"

Bermuda

Bermuda land snailPoecilozonites

Peanut snailPoecilozonites

Stephen Jay Gould

Bermuda land snailPoecilozonites

The protagonists(a) the "revolutionists"

Octala

Wolf snailEuglandina

Stephen Jay Gould

The protagonists(a) the "revolutionists"

Stephen Jay Gould

The protagonists(a) the "revolutionists"

Stephen Jay Gould

Gould S. J. & Lewontin R. C. 1979. The spandrels of San Marco and the Panglossian Paradigm: A critique of the Adaptationist Programme. Proc. R. Soc. London B: 205: 581-598.

The protagonists(a) the "revolutionists"

Stephen Jay Gould

The protagonists(a) the "revolutionists"

Stephen Jay Gould

The protagonists(a) the "revolutionists"

Stephen Jay Gould

The protagonists(a) the "revolutionists"

Niles Eldredge (°1943)http://www.nileseldredge.com/

The protagonists(a) the "revolutionists"

Niles Eldredge

Phacopida (Paleozoic trilobites)

The protagonists(a) the "revolutionists"

Niles Eldredge

The protagonists(a) the "revolutionists"

Niles Eldredge

The protagonists(a) the "revolutionists"

Elisabeth Vrba (°1942)http://earth.geology.yale.edu/~vrba/

                                                               

The protagonists(b) Darwin's defenders

John Maynard Smith (1920-2004 )

                                                               

The protagonists(b) Darwin's defenders

John Maynard Smith

                                                               

The protagonists(b) Darwin's defenders

Richard Dawkins (1941)http://users.ox.ac.uk/~dawkins/

                                                               

The protagonists(b) Darwin's defenders

Richard Dawkins

                                                               

The protagonists(b) Darwin's defenders

Daniel Dennett (1942)http://ase.tufts.edu/cogstud/incbios/dennettd/dennettd.htm

                                                               

The protagonists(b) Darwin's defenders

Daniel Dennett