Sargent Lab - Teaching

BIO 325 - Introductory Ecology

• Excel spreadsheet for calculating the Stable Age Distribution, one generation at a time (link)
• What's a derivative? Check out the Annenberg/CPB series, the Mechanical Universe and Beyond, a publlic television version of a first semester physics class from Cal Tech. The derivatives video is number 3, and it's pretty approachable.
• Sign Up Sheet For Appointments
• Syllabus
• Brief Final Review
• Old Final
• Population Biology Resources
• Exam 2
• Lotka-Volterra Competition
• Lotka-Volterra Predator-Prey
• Life Table From Class: this is an excel spreadsheet that you can manipulate
• Larger Life Table From Class
• Review for Second Exam (This is from last year and is being updated. Ignore the part on parental investment theory. Note that there is an error, which I hope to fix tonight, for the formula for R_x. R_x = 1/l_x S l_tm_t, not 1/x S l_tm_t. What's supposed to be a sigma or summation sign, S, may appear as a capital S, depending on your web browser.)
• Life Table: (Here is the cohort life table we went over in class. The first slide gives formulas for calculating l_x, s_x,x+1 and R_x; the second slide gives the life table; the third slide is a graph of l_x vs x; and, the fourth slide is a graph of R_x vs x.)
• Old Exam
• Review for First Exam
• Class Syllabus: Summer 4-Week
• Some Concepts From The First Week of Classes
• Darwin's Natural Selection
• Karl Popper's Philosophy of Science
• Adaptive Radiation in Threespine Sticklebacks
• Genetics of Speciation In Mimulus, Class Slides
• Adaptive Radiation of the Hawaiian Silversword Alliance; Class Slides
• Marginal Value Theorem
• Speciation
• Natural Selection
• Frequently Asked Questions About Evolution
• Populus: Don Alstad's Simulation Software in Population Biology (free download)
• Speciation in nature: the threespine stickleback model systems
• Statistical Sampling Lab
• Statistical Sampling Data

BIO 425 - Seminar: Evolutionary Medicine

• Syllabus

BIO 508 - Evolution: Life History Tradeoffs --  Theory and Mechanisms

• Syllabus

BIO 607 - Advanced (Topics in) Evolution(ary Biology)

Fall 2006: Macroevolution

• Syllabus: TBA
• Textbook: TBA
• Darwin's Natural Selection
• Adaptive Radiation in Threespine Sticklebacks
• Genetics of Speciation In Mimulus
• Adaptive Radiation of the Hawaiian Silversword Alliance
• Frequently Asked Questions About Evolution
• Populus: 3.4.2 for DOS in Windows is very easy to download and use
• Kent Holsinger's Population Biology Simulation Page
• Old Take-Home Problem Set

BIO 608 - Behavioral Ecology & Life Histories

• Presentations
• Problem Set - Fall 2007: Due November 7 (open book, open  notes, open discussion with your peers, but do your own write up)
• Answer Key to Above Problem Set
• Syllabus
• JSTOR Archives
• Readings
• Marginal Value Theorem
• Hawks & Doves
• Unifying Behavioral and Evolutionary Ecology
• Notes And References On Sexual Selection

Bio 621 - Current Topics in Biology. Biometry: The Design and Analysis of Biological Experiments

• Syllabus
• Rough Draft of Course Proposal
• Biometry Internet Resources (rough draft)

BIO 770 - Exploring Animal Social Networks

• class website