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This learning path explores how species interactions—mutualism, antagonism, predator-prey, and host-parasite—drive evolutionary change. It begins with foundational ecology and evolutionary concepts, then builds toward understanding coevolutionary dynamics, arms races, and the factors that shape them.
This learning path guides students through the core concepts of macroevolution, from the fossil record and geological time to cladistics, mass extinctions, adaptive radiations, and evolutionary trends. It builds from foundational evolutionary principles to advanced analytical methods, emphasizing how paleontological and phylogenetic evidence informs our understanding of large-scale biodiversity change.
This learning path introduces the core concepts and methods for building phylogenetic trees. It covers the nature of phylogenetic trees, character data, and the main inference approaches: distance methods, parsimony, and maximum likelihood. Learners will gain a systematic understanding of how evolutionary relationships are reconstructed from molecular or morphological data.
This learning path guides molecular evolution students through the neutral theory, starting from basic genetics and population genetics, through the molecular clock and the neutral theory itself, to its implications such as synonymous versus non-synonymous substitutions and tests of neutrality. The path emphasizes the historical context and the contrast with selectionist views.
This learning path explores the sources of genetic variation, focusing on mutation as the ultimate origin, and examines how this variation contributes to evolutionary processes. It covers mutation types and rates, the neutral theory, and variation within populations, providing a comprehensive understanding for genetics students.
This learning path introduces the principles of sexual selection, its mechanisms, and its evolutionary consequences. Starting with foundational concepts in natural selection and sexual reproduction, it explores intrasexual and intersexual selection, mate choice, and the evolution of sexually dimorphic traits, culminating in modern perspectives and debates.
This path guides evolutionary biology students through the core modes of natural selection, emphasizing their genetic consequences. It starts with foundational concepts of evolution and population genetics, then systematically explores directional, stabilizing, disruptive, and balancing selection, including the role of selection coefficients. The path concludes with practical application in population genetics models.
This learning path explores how migration influences genetic variation within and among populations. Starting with fundamental population genetics, it progresses through the concept of FST, classical gene flow models, and concludes with modern perspectives on population structure. Designed for university students in population genetics, it emphasizes conceptual understanding and model-based reasoning.
This learning path systematically explores how random genetic drift influences genetic variation. Beginning with foundational population genetics, it progresses through key concepts such as founder effects, population bottlenecks, effective population size, and the neutral theory of molecular evolution, culminating in an understanding of drift's interaction with selection.
This learning path introduces undergraduate biology students to the core concepts of population genetics, focusing on how allele frequencies change over time. Starting with the Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium as a null model, the path explores the forces of mutation, genetic drift, gene flow, and natural selection, and how they interact to drive microevolution. By the end, learners will be able to apply these principles to analyze real-world evolutionary scenarios.