|CLASS CODE:||BIO 475||CREDITS: 3| |DIVISION:||AGRICULTURAL AND
LIFE SCIENCES| |GENERAL EDUCATION:||This course does not fulfill
a General Education requirement.| |DESCRIPTION:||Basic Darwinian
evolution and the history of evolutionary thought is presented.
Includes the study of the scientific evidences for evolution and
the processes through which evolution occurs. The history of
life on earth will also be explored.| |CONTENT AND
TOPICS:||Microevolution: including speciation, isolating
mechanisms, species concept, population genetics and molecular
and developmental evolution Macroevolution: including
biogeography, systematics and classification, geology and the
fossil record, gradualism and punctuated equilibrium. History of
Evolution: including evidences, current views, history of
thought, challenges to evolution and false ideas.
Religion/Creation: including Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-
Day Saints and religion in general view, Human Evolution Human
Evolution: including source of evidences and current th