Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Stephan
Prof. Dr. John Parsch
Dr. Stefan Laurent (tutorial)
Evidence For Evolution
Summary
Paleoevolution and the Fossil Record Summary
Natural Selection and Adaptation Summary
Genetic Variation within Species Summary
Hardy-Weinberg Law Summary
Mutation and Natural Selection Summary
Maintenance of Genetic Variation Summary
Genetic Drift Summary
Neutral Theory Summary
Human Evolution Summary
Evolution of Sex Summary
Selection versus Drift Summary
Mid-term Exam 06.12.2011
Protein Evolution Summary
DNA Evolution Summary
Molecular Phylogenetics Summary
Application of Molecular Phylogenetics Summary
Testing the Neutral Theory Summary Figures
Positive Selection in Humans Summary
Introduction to Genomics Summary
Functional, Comparative, and Evolutionary Genomics Summary
Evolutionary Bioinformatics Summary
Evolutionary Developmental Biology Summary
Speciation and Speciation Genetics Summary
The Molecular Genetics of Speciation Summary
Final Exam 07.02.2012
Oct 27th 2011: The RNA world
Nov 03th 2011: The major transitions
Nov 10th 2011: The Hardy-Weinberg principle
Nov 17th 2011: Selection in diploid organisms
Dec 1st 2011: The neutral theory
Dec 15th 2011: Why sex ?
Dec 15th 2011: Transition to asexuality result in excess amino acid substitutions
Dec 22th 2011: The molecular clock
Jan 12th 2011: Evolution of genes and taxa: a primer (pages 1-13)
Jan 19th 2011: Evolution of genes and taxa: a primer (pages 14-20)
Jan 26th 2012: Genomics and humanness
Feb 2th 2012: Dobzhansky-Muller incompatibilities
Feb 9th 2012: No tutorial; final exam in this week