Macro-evolution format: "guided" reading basic papers additional papers evaluation: didactic skills (presentation additional papers) pugnacity (during debates) knowledge, understanding: traditional exam (oral, written prep)
The grand question minute effects visible to the naturalist and experimentalist grand sweep of evolution visible to the comparative anatomist and paleontologist =
The protagonists (a) the "revolutionists" Stephen Jay Gould ( )
The protagonists (a) the "revolutionists" Niles Eldredge (°1943)
The protagonists (a) the "revolutionists" Elisabeth Vrba (°1942)
The protagonists (b) Darwin's defenders John Maynard Smith ( )
The protagonists (b) Darwin's defenders Richard Dawkins (1941)
The protagonists (b) Darwin's defenders Daniel Dennett (1942)
The topics 1.punctuated equilibrium vs phyletic gradualism 2.species sorting 3.speciation 4.macro-evolutionary trends 5.the role of mass extinctions 6.radiations 7.genomic evolution 8.evo-devo as a bridge between micro and macro
Topic 1 clash of the titans: punctuated equilibrium vs phyletic gradualism Eldredge N The allopatric model and phylogeny in Paleozoic invertebrates. Evolution 25: Eldredge N. & Gould S.J Punctuated equilibrium: an alternative to phyletic gradualism. pp In 'Models in Palaeobiology' (T.J.M. Schopf, ed.) Freeman, Cooper & Co, San Francisco.