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Alien anthropophages on the march? Box elder bugs on a field of lichen?
Introduction to Ecology, Evolution,
and Organismal Diversity
Spring 2008
| Instructors | Gordon Brown & Larry Davis |
| Offices | Brown: Peter Engel Science Center (PENGL), Room 339 Davis: New Science Center (NSC), Room 116 |
| Brown: dgbrown@csbsju.edu Davis: ldavis@csbsju.edu |
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| Phone (O) | Brown: (320) 363-3175 Davis: (320) 363-3328 |
| Phone (H) | Brown: (320) 573-1469 (emergencies only) |
| Class | Brown: Days 2-4-6 @ 9:40–10:50 AM, PENGL 369 Davis: Days 2-4-6 @ 1:00–2:10 PM, PENGL 373 |
| Laboratory | PENGL 342; Days 3 & 4 1:00–3:50, Day 6 2:40–3:50 (register separately) |
Text |
Freeman, S. 2005. Biological Science (2nd edition). Pearson Prentice Hall, Upper Saddle River, NJ, USA. |
My Dear Children:
I rejoice to see you before me today, happy youth of a sunny and fortunate land.
Bear in mind that the wonderful things you learn in your schools are the work of many generations, produced by enthusiastic effort and infinite labor in every country of the world. All this is put into your hands as your inheritance in order that you may receive it, honor it, add to it, and one day faithfully hand it on to your children. Thus do we mortals achieve immortality in the permanent things which we create in common.
If you always keep that in mind, you will find meaning in life and work and acquire the right attitude toward other nations and ages.
Albert Einstein
speaking to a group of children in the Netherlands, 1934
Course synopsis
The primary goal of the biology 121/221/222 sequence is to introduce foundational concepts, perspectives, and avenues of inquiry within the vast field of biology. The CSB|SJU Biology Department hopes that by participating in this course sequence you will discover which of biology’s sub-disciplines interest you most. The purpose of BIOL 222 is to provide an introduction to the study of evolution, the foundation of the modern biological sciences. After this we will begin to explore the diversity of creatures "most beautiful and most wonderful" produced by the evolutionary process. Finally, we will introduce the discipline of ecology, which is the scientific study of the distribution and abundance of organisms, the interactions among organisms, and the interactions among organisms and their environments. A brief outline of the topics we will consider is given below:
General Information Form: Outlines the course, its policies, and its grading scale.
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