By the end of the course, the student will have learned:
- the fundamentals of evolutionary biology, the history of the field, its current day problems and applications;
- the sources of data used to study evolution, including fossil, anatomical, molecular data, and methodological approaches such as phylogenetics;
- molecular, population genetic and macroevolutionary mechanisms underlying evolution, such as mutation, natural selection, genetic drift, and speciation;
- recurrent patterns in the evolution of life forms, such as convergent evolution.