Course Description
EVOLUTION, BIOL 105
Covers the causal interpretation of organic diversity and adaptation. Topics include inference of evolutionary change from the fossil record and from genomic and molecular patterns; microevolution and macroevolution; systematics and the species problem; and natural selection, drift, and other forces of evolution.
Key Information
Credit: 4 quarter units /
2.67 semester units credit
UC Riverside, Biology
Course Credit:
Upon successful completion, all online courses offered through cross-enrollment provide UC unit credit. Some courses are approved for GE, major preparation and/or, major credit or can be used as a substitute for a course at your campus.If "unit credit" is listed by your campus, consult your department, academic adviser or Student Affairs division to inquire about the petition process for more than unit credit for the course.
UC Berkeley:
Unit Credit
UC Davis:
Unit Credit
UC Irvine:
General Education: II - Science and Technology
UC Los Angeles:
Unit Credit (No GE Credit)
UC Merced:
Major Requirement: Evolution Requirement for Human Biology, Microbiology & Immunology, Developmental Biology and Molecular & Cell Biology emphasis tracks.
Not open for credit toward graduation to students who have completed BIO 141.
UC Riverside:
Major Requirement: Cell and Molecular Biology, Organismal Genetics, Zoology and Physiology, Ecology and Population Biology
UC San Diego:
Course Equivalence: UCSD BIEB 150
General Education: Warren - May be counted depending on major/PofC, Transfer students may use for UD noncontiguous GE depending on major; TMC 1 course toward upper-division disciplinary breadth if noncontiguous to major; ERC -meets one course of natural science requirement; Sixth - 1 course towards Analytic Methodologies; Muir: petition for 1 course in biology sequence in Math/Natural Sciences, Seventh - 1 course towards Alternatives - Natural Sciences and Engineering
UC San Francisco:
Unit Credit
UC Santa Barbara:
Course Equivalence: UCSB EEMB 131
Major Requirement: Applicable after petition toward upper-division requirements in Biological Sciences BS or BA, Aquatic Biology BS, Ecology & Evolution BS, Physiology BS, Zoology BS, or Cell & Developmental Biology BS. Note that this course is NOT applicable toward Biochemistry-Molecular Biology BS, Microbiology BS, or Pharmacology BS, as these majors do not accept the equivalent UCSB course EEMB 131.
UC Santa Cruz:
Course Equivalence: BIOE 109
General Education: SI
Prerequisites
Prerequisite(s): BIOL 005C with a grade of 'C-' or better, BIOL 102, CHEM 008C and CHEM 08LC, or CHEM 08HC and CHEM 08HLC, MATH 007B or MATH 009B or MATH 09HB, PHYS 002C, PHYS 02LC, BCH 100 or BCH 110A, one course in statistics; or consent of instructor.
Course Fees
No fees per se, but it will cost about $100 to take the exams online via ProctorU, reached through canvas.ucr.edu. You must create an account with them.
More About The Course
The posted course website and syllabus are from a previous offering and will be updated when the course starts.
Course Creators
Theodore Garland
Theodore Garland, Jr. is a Distinguished Professor of Biology at UC Riverside. The Research in Dr. Garland’s laboratory involves the evolution of complex phenotypes. Through empirical, theoretical, and methodological studies, he has also been instrumental in developing the field of evolutionary physiology. He has a particular interest in the genetics and evolution of locomotor behavior and exercise physiology. Dr. Garland and his graduate students participate in the UCR Graduate Programs in Evolution, Ecology, and Organismal Biology; Genetics, Genomics & Bioinformatics; Neuroscience; and Biomedical Sciences. He is the founding director of IDEA, the UCR Institute for the Development of Educational Applications. Dr. Garland is the Editor-in-Chief of the journal Physiological and Biochemical Zoology. In addition, he has collaborated with scientists from many countries, including Argentina, Australia, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Chile, France, Germany, Mexico, The Netherlands, Spain, and The United Kingdom.
Theodore Garland, Jr. is a Distinguished Professor of Biology at UC Riverside. The Research in Dr. Garland’s laboratory involves the evolution of complex phenotypes. Through empirical, theoretical, and methodological studies, he has also been instrumental in developing the field of evolutionary physiology. He has a particular interest in the genetics and evolution of locomotor behavior and ...Theodore Garland, Jr. is a Distinguished Professor of Biology at UC Riverside. The Research in Dr. Garland’s laboratory involves the evolution of complex phenotypes. Through empirical, theoretical, and methodological studies, he has also been instrumental in developing the field of evolutionary physiology. He has a particular interest in the genetics and evolution of locomotor behavior and exercise physiology. Dr. Garland and his graduate students participate in the UCR Graduate Programs in Evolution, Ecology, and Organismal Biology; Genetics, Genomics & Bioinformatics; Neuroscience; and Biomedical Sciences. He is the founding director of IDEA, the UCR Institute for the Development of Educational Applications. Dr. Garland is the Editor-in-Chief of the journal Physiological and Biochemical Zoology. In addition, he has collaborated with scientists from many countries, including Argentina, Australia, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Chile, France, Germany, Mexico, The Netherlands, Spain, and The United Kingdom.
Alan Brelsford
Alan Brelsford is a Biology professor at UCR, and an evolutionary geneticist broadly interested in hybridization, speciation, and the evolution of sex chromosomes and other supergenes. His research seeks to identify the regions of the genome responsible for evolutionarily important traits, and use variation at regions to study the history of these traits. Current study systems include the population genomics of social behavior in ants, color pattern in birds, sex determination in frogs, and reproductive barriers between related species in all three of these groups. Research in the Brelsford lab integrates field, lab, and computational methods. Alan Brelsford is a Biology professor at UCR, and an evolutionary geneticist broadly interested in hybridization, speciation, and the evolution of sex chromosomes and other supergenes. His research seeks to identify the regions of the genome responsible for evolutionarily important traits, and use variation at regions to study the history of these traits. Current study systems include the ...
Alan Brelsford is a Biology professor at UCR, and an evolutionary geneticist broadly interested in hybridization, speciation, and the evolution of sex chromosomes and other supergenes. His research seeks to identify the regions of the genome responsible for evolutionarily important traits, and use variation at regions to study the history of these traits. Current study systems include the population genomics of social behavior in ants, color pattern in birds, sex determination in frogs, and reproductive barriers between related species in all three of these groups. Research in the Brelsford lab integrates field, lab, and computational methods.
