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Explain how populations change in genetic composition, how that change produces adaptation and species, and how the nested history of life is read from anatomy, fossils, geography, and molecules. Separate the fact that populations change from the several processes that cause the change, and separate a tested claim from a story told after the fact.

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Core Learning Outcomes & Competencies

Upon mastery of this comprehensive syllabus, students and researchers are expected to:

✓ Distinguish the fact of evolutionary change from the processes proposed to explain it, and place Lamarck, Darwin, Wallace, and the modern synthesis in that distinction.

✓ Use homology, fossils, biogeography, direct observation, and molecular comparisons as evidence, and state what each kind of evidence can and cannot show.

✓ State the conditions for natural selection, separate fitness from strength, and compare directional, stabilising, disruptive, balancing, sexual, and kin selection.

✓ Explain how mutation, drift, gene flow, non-random mating, and selection change, or fail to change, allele and genotype frequencies, using Hardy–Weinberg as the null.

✓ Compare species concepts and the geographic modes of speciation, and classify isolating mechanisms as prezygotic or postzygotic.

✓ Read a phylogenetic tree as a hypothesis of nested relationship, and distinguish monophyly, paraphyly, synapomorphy, and homoplasy.

✓ Place deep time at the right order of magnitude: the age of the Earth, early cellular life, endosymbiosis, the Cambrian diversification, the move onto land, and the five great mass extinctions, with causes only where they are established.

✓ Explain punctuated equilibrium, exaptation, and the comparative evolution of development, and describe human evolution without a ladder of progress or a racial typology.

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