A packet of materials to be used as course supplements consists of printouts
of all lecture PowerPoints images. The packet is available
at Copy-Plus. Students are not required to purchase the packet, as all materials are freely available on-line at www.stuartsumida.com; however many students find it convenient and less
expensive to purchase the packet as a whole at the beginning of the term.
Copy-Plus is located at the corner of Kendall and University
Parkway (near the Econo
Lube-and-Tune and el Pollo Loco).
Week
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Date
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Topic and Readings
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Reading
Assignment
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1
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8/3
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Course Organization and
Introduction; “Moving at the Speed of Rocks”
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“Am I already
behind!?”
VK-Book 1, Ch.
1-5
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8/3
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Why you can’t walk from Utah
to Germany (anymore): “Deep Time” and continental drift.
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RC Chapters 1
and 6
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8/5
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What’s all the fuss about
classification and phylogeny? – or – Why we need to know what’s what and
who’s who (and how you do it).
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RC Chapters
2-4; VK-Book 1, Ch. 6-9
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8/5
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I: An ecosystem approach:
individual organisms and whole ecosystems are filled with single-celled
things
II: What does an animal have
in common with a martini?
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2
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8/10
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I: Plants: they aren’t
just for salad anymore.
II: Flowering plants (It’s
all about sex…)
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RC Chapter 14;
VK- VK-Book 1, Ch. 10-14
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8/10
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Midterm 1 (175
Points) including Galapagos questions
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8/12
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VK-Book 1, Ch.
15-18
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8/12
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I: Specialization: Ya gotta have segments.
II: “All you need is your
hat and your shoes and you’re ready to go.” The life of a mollusk
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RC Chapter 5
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3
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8/17
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“It’s a Bug’s Life!” and
Other Arthropods
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RC Chapter 5;
VK-Book 1, Ch. 19-24
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8/17
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Radial symmetry (Can a
starfish suck the life out of you?)
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RC Chapter 6
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8/19
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I: It’s all about
backbones. Or is it? (The importance of developmental biology)
II: Fish! More
than just sushi
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RC Chapters 7
and 8; VK-Book 1, Ch. 25-29
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8/19
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Making it on land: The fish
to amphibian transition is a “water to land” transition
Living amphibians – the
living environmental monitors
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RC Chapter 8
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4
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8/24
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I: Amniotes and
reptiles – more than creepy crawlies
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VK-Book
1, Ch. 30-35
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8/24
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II: A a case study of convergent evolution
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RC Chapter 9;
VK-Book 1, Ch. 36 – Book 2, Ch. 2
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8/26
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Midterm 2 (250
Points) including Galapagos questions
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5
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8/31
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Dinosaurs – the truth is
stranger than fiction
More Dinosaurs!
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RC Chapters 12
and 13; VK-Book 2, Ch. 3-7
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8/31
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Birds: The dinosaurs
aren’t dead!
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9/2
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Mammals: More than
fur. (“You are what you eat”)
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RC Chapters 10
and 15; VK-Book 2, Ch. 8-14
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9/2
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I: The Origin of
Humans
II: People, Anatomy,
and Animation – Biology Informs Art (Again)
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RC Chapter 17;
KV-Book 2, Ch. 8-14
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Final
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9/9
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WEDNESDAY! Final
Examination 1:00—3:00 P.M. (375 Points) including Galapagos
questions
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