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關於課程

本課程介紹了進化，生態的原則，是學生們開始學習生物和環境的入門。它討論的方式給所有耶魯大學本科生提供了主要思路和成果，最新進展與成果，已遠遠超出其邊界問題：觀念，機制和過程，應該成為所有公民的生物學家和教育工具的一部分。


About the Course

This course presents the principles of evolution, ecology, and behavior for students beginning their study of biology and of the environment. It discusses major ideas and results in a manner accessible to all Yale College undergraduates. Recent advances have energized these fields with results that have implications well beyond their boundaries: ideas, mechanisms, and processes that should form part of the toolkit of all biologists and educated citizens.

Course Structure:This Yale College course, taught on campus three times per week for 50 minutes, was recorded for Open Yale Courses in Spring 2009.

關於斯蒂芬斯特恩斯教授

Stephen C. Stearns 是Edward P. Bass生態學與進化生物學講座教授並且從事生活歷史演變和藥品進化。他在耶魯大學、 威斯康星大學和不列顛哥倫比亞大學接受教育。他的書包括演變、 介紹； 從滅絕邊緣； 查看和的生命演化歷史，他是健康和疾病中的演化和性別發展和及其後果的編輯。他創立並曾經擔任歐洲社會進化生物學和熱帶生物學協會的主席。


About Professor Stephen C. Stearns

Stephen C. Stearns is the Edward P. Bass Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and specializes in life history evolution and evolutionary medicine. He was educated at Yale, the University of Wisconsin, and the University of British Columbia. His books include Evolution, an Introduction; Watching from the Edge of Extinction; and The Evolution of Life Histories, and he is the editor of Evolution in Health and Disease and The Evolution of Sex and Its Consequences. He founded and has served as president of the European Society for Evolutionary Biology and the Tropical Biology Association.

課程目錄：
1.進化的性質： 選擇、 繼承與歷史
2.基本傳輸遺傳學
3.自適應進化： 自然選擇
4.中性的演變： 遺傳漂移
5.如何選擇更改種群的遺傳組成
6.起源與遺傳變異的維護
7.演變中發展的重要性
8.表達的變化： 反應規範
9.性別的演變
10.基因組衝突
11.生命的歷史演變
12.性別分配
13.雌雄淘汰
14.物種和形態
15.系統發育及系統分類學
16.比較方法： 樹、地圖與性狀
17.進化中的關鍵事件
18.地質劇院中的主要事件
19.化石記錄和生活的史
20.協同進化
21.醫學的發展
22.論社會科學進化思想的影響
23.科學的邏輯
24.氣候與地球上的生命的分佈
25.物理環境交互
26.人口增長： 密度效應
27.物種間的競爭
28.生態社區
29.島嶼生物地理學和入侵
30.生態系統中的能量與物質
31.為什麼有這麼多物種？生物多樣性的影響因素
32.經濟決策的個體覓食
33.進化博弈論：戰鬥和競賽
34.交配系統與父母關懷
35.另類育種策略
36.自私與利他

Class Sessions

1. The Nature of Evolution: Selection, Inheritance, and History
2. Basic Transmission Genetics
3. Adaptive Evolution: Natural Selection
4. Neutral Evolution: Genetic Drift
5. How Selection Changes the Genetic Composition of Population
6. The Origin and Maintenance of Genetic Variation
7. The Importance of Development in Evolution
8. The Expression of Variation: Reaction Norms
9. The Evolution of Sex
10. Genomic Conflict
11. Life History Evolution
12. Sex Allocation
13. Sexual Selection
14. Species and Speciation
15. Phylogeny and Systematics
16. Comparative Methods: Trees, Maps, and Traits
17. Key Events in Evolution
18. Major Events in the Geological Theatre
19. The Fossil Record and Life's History
20. Coevolution
21. Evolutionary Medicine
22. The Impact of Evolutionary Thought on the Social Sciences
23. The Logic of Science
24. Climate and the Distribution of Life on Earth
25. Interactions with the Physical Environment
26. Population Growth: Density Effects
27. Interspecific Competition
28. Ecological Communities
29. Island Biogeography and Invasive Species
30. Energy and Matter in Ecosystems
31. Why So Many Species? The Factors Affecting Biodiversity
32. Economic Decisions for the Foraging Individual
33. Evolutionary Game Theory: Fighting and Contests
34. Mating Systems and Parental Care
35. Alternative Breeding Strategies
36. Selfishness and Altruism