Guia docente 2017_18
Facultade de Bioloxía
Grao en Bioloxía
 Subjects
  Biology: Evolution
   Contents
Topic Sub-topic
Introduction (3). 1. Evidences envelope to evolution. Concepts of Evolution. Proofs of the evolution.

2. History of the evolutionary ideas. Importance of the historical context. Renaissance and start of the modern science. First evolutionary ideas. Darwin and his context. The rational critique. The *Darwinismo in the actuality.

3. *Darwinismo And society. Foundation of the Biology. Importance of the Biodiversity. Importance of the Artificial Selection. Inference of the biological history. Evolutionary strategy. Application to Engineering *computacional. The fake conflict with the religion. The understanding of the our species.


The evolutionary mechanisms (13). 4. The biological variation. The evolutionary importance. Types of biological variation. Mechanisms of *amplificación. Evolutionary applications.

5. Natural selection and adaptation. . Offspring with modification. The evolutionary factors (mutation, migration and derive). The natural selection. The adaptation. The case of *Biston *betularia. The example of *Littorina *saxatilis. *Plasticidade *fenotípica And adaptation.

6. Measure of the natural selection and his limits. Types of Selection. Measurement of the “natural selection”. Measurement in qualitative characters (*W). Measurement in quantitative characters (*S). Esteems of selection and evolutionary hypotheses. The selection on characters “of #efficacy”. You limit of the natural selection.

7. Cooperation and conflict. The “problem” of the collaboration. Development of new concepts (#efficacy *inclusiva). Real examples and his evolutionary utility. The evolutionary conflict. Development of new methods. The sexual selection: causes and consequences. Measurement of the sexual selection.

8. The species and his training. The “problem” of the species. The evolution of the reproductive isolation. @Escenario of *Especiación. Mechanisms of *Especiación.

9. *Coevolución. Nature of the *coevolución. *Coevolución Predatory-imprisoned. *Coevolución Competitive. *Mutualismo. *Simbiose. Other interactions.


Register fossil (4). 10. Nature and meaning of the register fossil. Importance and representativeness of the Register Fossil.

11. Relations go in the history of the life and the Earth. The main biological events along the geological history.
Origin and diversification of the life (9). 12. The origin of the life. Data, theories and problems.

13. The tree of the life. Tools and methods of inference.

14. Origin and diversification of bacterium and *archea. Evidences fossils and sequence of appearance.

15. Origin and diversification of organisms *multicelulares. Origin and consequences of the *Multicelularidad.

16. *Macroevolución. Patterns and explanations of the *macroevolución.

Human evolution (6). 17. The human lineage: evolutionary History of the primates and hominids. Register fossil and studies of ancient genetic material.

18. Evolution and diversity of human characters. Brain and Language. Theory of the mind. Vital strategies: evolutionary Commitments, *senescencia.

19. Social evolution in hominids. Systems of *apareamiento and sexual selection. Familiar selection. Cooperation and *altruísmo

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