Fall 2008
Tuesday 12:05-12:55
Birge 346
David Baum, Ken Cameron, Eve Emshwiller, Bret Larget, Ken Sytsma - instructors
Previous Seminars: New Advances (08Spring), Polyploidy (07Spring), Crop Evolution (06Fall), Evidence for Evolution (06Spring), Frontiers in Systematics (05Fall), PhyloCode (05Spring), Phylogeography (04Spring), Key Innovations (03Spring)
| Date | Topic | Leader | Link for readings at My UW or Learn@UW ; List of all references: pdf or Word |
| Sep 9 | Monophyly and tree thinking | Brian Walsh | Hennig, 1966 (Chap. 1); O’Hara, 1997 |
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Sep 16 |
Darwin's species concept | Emily Butler | Kottler, 1978; Mallett, 2008 |
| Sep 23 |
Species individuality | Evie Williams | Ghiselin, 1974; Ereshefsky, 1992 |
| Sep 30 | Phylogenetic species concepts | David Lovelace | Nixon and Wheeler, 1990; Baum and Donoghue, 1995 |
| Oct 7 | Ending the species debate? | Brent Berger | de Queiroz et al. 2005; Pigliucci 2003 |
| Oct 14 | Quantifying diversity | Stephanie McFarlane / Bryan Drew | Vane-Wright et al. 1991; Faith, 2002 |
| Oct 21 | Alternative concepts of homology | Patterson, 1982; Wagner, 1989; Mindell and Meyer 2001 | |
| Oct 28 | Modularity and evolvability | Jonathan Lang | Wagner and Altenberg 1997; Pigliucci 2008 |
| Nov 4 | Homology and evo-devo | Abigail Mazie | Baum and Donoghue 2002; Hall 2003 |
| Nov 11 | Definition of adaptation | Armin Schulz | Gould and Vrba 1982; Orzack and Sober, 1994 |
| Nov 18 | Testing adaptation for discrete traits | Ben Grady | Baum and Larson 1991; Kluge 2005 |
| Nov 25 | Correlated evolution as evidence of adaptation | Casey Helgeson | Felsenstein, 1985; Westoby et al. 1995 |
| Dec 2 | Species selection | Brian Sidoti | Vrba and Gould 1986; Grantham 1995 |
| Dec 9 | Key innovations | Rafael Arevalo | Slowinski and Guyer, 1989; Ree, 2005 |