1. Macro-evolution http://webh01.ua.ac.be/funmorph/raoul/ format: "guided" reading basic papers additional papers evaluation: didactic skills (presentation additional papers) pugnacity (during debates) knowledge, understanding: traditional exam (oral, written prep)

2. The grand question minute effects visible to the naturalist and experimentalist grand sweep of evolution visible to the comparative anatomist and paleontologist  =

3. The protagonists (a) the "revolutionists" Stephen Jay Gould (1941-2002) http://www.stephenjaygould.org/

4. The protagonists (a) the "revolutionists" Niles Eldredge (°1943) http://www.nileseldredge.com/

5. The protagonists (a) the "revolutionists" Elisabeth Vrba (°1942) http://earth.geology.yale.edu/~vrba/

6. The protagonists (b) Darwin's defenders John Maynard Smith (1920-2004 )

7. The protagonists (b) Darwin's defenders Richard Dawkins (1941) http://users.ox.ac.uk/~dawkins/

8. The protagonists (b) Darwin's defenders Daniel Dennett (1942) http://ase.tufts.edu/cogstud/incbios/dennettd/dennettd.htm

9. 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

10. Topic 1 clash of the titans: punctuated equilibrium vs phyletic gradualism Eldredge N. 1971. The allopatric model and phylogeny in Paleozoic invertebrates. Evolution 25: 156-157. Eldredge N. & Gould S.J. 1972. Punctuated equilibrium: an alternative to phyletic gradualism. pp. 82-116 In 'Models in Palaeobiology' (T.J.M. Schopf, ed.) Freeman, Cooper & Co, San Francisco.