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POPULATION BIOLOGY - UNIT A
cod. 1001341

Academic year 2009/10
1° year of course - First semester
Professor
Academic discipline
Ecologia (BIO/07)
Field
Discipline del settore biodiversità e ambiente
Type of training activity
Characterising
24 hours
of face-to-face activities
3 credits
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Integrated course unit module: POPULATION BIOLOGY

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Learning objectives

To review the essential concepts in Ecology and Genetics required for the module, and to reach an understanding of why “Nothing in biology makes sense except in the light of evolution” (T. Dobzanski).

Prerequisites

Three-year degree.

Course unit content

First-term Evolutionary Biology module: understanding the multiplicity of evolutionary forces. Knowledge of the conditions in which these different forces give rise to the evolutionary process. Capacity to draw inferences from the relative importance of different evolutionary forces, starting from information about the structure of the populations studied.

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Bibliography

First-term Evolutionary Biology module: Hart L., Daniel L., Clark Andrew G., Genetica di popolazione. <br />
Zanichelli and recent texts provided in the course material. <br />
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