Evolution 101 Table of Contents
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• The family tree
  
  
• Understanding phylogenies
  
  
• Building the tree
  
  
• Homologies and analogies
  
  
• Using the tree for classification
  
  
• Adding time to the tree
  
  
• How we know what happened when
  
  
• Important events in the history of life
  
  

• Descent with modification
  
  
• Mechanisms of change
  
  
• Genetic variation
  
  
• Mutations
  
  
• The causes of mutations
  
  
• Gene flow
  
  
• Sex and genetic shuffling
  
  
• Development
  
  
• Genetic drift
  
  
• Natural selection
  
  
• What about fitness?
  
  
• Sexual selection
  
  
• Artificial selection
  
  
• Adaptation
  
  
• Misconceptions about natural selection
  
  
• Coevolution
  
  

• Defining microevolution
  
  
• Detecting microevolutionary change
  
  
• Mechanisms of microevolution
  
  

• Defining a species
  
  
• Defining speciation
  
  
• Causes of speciation
  
  
• Reproductive isolation
  
  
• Evidence for speciation
  
  
• Cospeciation
  
  

• What is macroevolution?
  
  
• Patterns in macroevolution
  
  

• The pace of evolution
  
  
• Diversity in clades
  
  
• Looking at complexity
  
  
• Trends in evolution