Anthro5471/Biol5471: Quantitative Models in Evolutionary Ecology

Description:

An introduction to the method and theory of evolutionary ecology for undergraduate students and beginning grads. The course will make extensive use of Maple, a computer program that simplifies equations, solves them, and plots the results.

Syllabus

Reading materials

Bowles, Samuel. 2009 Did warfare among ancestral hunter-gatherers affect the evolution of human social behaviors? Science 324: 1293-1298.
• Primary text Rogers, Alan R. 2010. Models in Evolutionary Ecology.
• McElreath and Boyd. 2007. Animal communication. Ch 5 of Mathematical Models of Social Evolution.

Lab

Study guides

Supplementary readings

Extra Credit Assignment

Two extra credit assignments are available. You can do either one, or neither one, but not both.

• If your algebra is rusty.
• If your algebra is not rusty.