16 January 2018
syllabus
Reading: Wiens 2015

18 January 2018
Linnaeus 1st ed
Reading: Clutton-Brock
Reading: Baum phylogenetic trees
Practice questions phylogenetic trees

23 January 2018
Reading: Phylocode
Lecture

25 January 2018
MSB tour

30 January 2018
Parsimony analysis--Wilkinson
Parsimony analysis--Berkeley

1 February 2018
Reading: Wiens
Reading: de Queiroz
Reading: Ryan et al.
Lecture

6 February 2018
Reading: Lowe et al.
Lecture

8 February 2018
Reading: Pough et al. chapter 5 (Radiation of the Chondrichthyes)
Lecture

13 February 2018
Practice questions Test 1

15 February 2018
Lecture
Reading: Pough et al. Chapter 4 (Living in water)
Reading: Fishbase.org (read about species discussed in lecture)

20 February 2018
Lecture
Reading: Pough et al. Chapter 8 (Living on land)

22 February 2018
Lecture
Kuchta
Amphibiaweb species accounts

27 February 2018
Lecture
Reading: Amphibiaweb
Kuchta

1 March 2018
Lecture
Warner and Shine
Crews and Bull
Bateman and Fleming

6 March 2018
Lecture
Kley and Brainerd
Cundall

8 March 2018
Baron et al.
Langer et al.

20 March 2018
Lecture
CSG report

22 March 2018
Research Day

27 March 2018
Practice questions test 2

29 March 2018
Lecture
Cordero
Wallace et al.
Joyce et al.
Turtles in Trouble

3 April 2018
Lecture
​Reading: Pough et al. Chapter 17. Avian specializations
Cornell lab of Ornithology bird diversity

5 April 2018
​Reading: ANSP flight, ucmp flight
Movie: Bird flight anatomy

10 April 2018
​Lecture
Reading: Hosken and House, Andersson, Jenni, Beecher and Beecher

12 April 2018
Lecture
Reading: Pough et al. Chapter 18 (Synapsids), 20 (Mammal diversity), 21 (Reproduction), Animaldiversityweb, Rowe, Angielzyk

17 April 2018
Lecture
Reading: Tattersall, Pough et al. Chapter 20 (Mammal diversity), Animaldiversityweb

19 April 2018
Lecture
Davis et al.
Simberloff et al.

24, 26,  April; 1 May 2018
Student presentations
Powerpoint rules

3 May 2018
Practice questions Test 3
Final test