Due dates
Homeworks are posted below next to their respective due dates.
- 01/16
- Homework 1
- 01/23
- Homework 2
- 01/30
- Homework 3
- 02/06
- Homework 4
- 02/13
- Homework 5
- 02/20
- Homework 6
- 02/27
- Homework 7
- 03/06
- Homework 8
Lecture/reading schedule
Following is the tentative lecture schedule.
- 01/09
- Principles of estimation
- 01/16
- The great probability distributions of biology
- 01/23
- Evolution by the numbers I
- Simberloff and Wilson, Experimental zoogeography of islands: The colonization of empty islands, Ecology, 1969
- T. L. Erwin, Tropical forets: Their richness in coleoptera and other arthropod species, Coloepterists Bulletin, 1982
- N. H. Sleep, et al., Annihilation of ecosystems by large asteroid collision on the early Earth Their Loss?, Nature, 1989
- Whitman, Coleman, and Wiebe, Prokaryotes: The unseen majority, PNAS, 1998
- R. May, Why Worry about How Many Species and Their Loss?, PLoS Biology, 2011
- 01/30
- Evolution by the numbers II
- 02/06
- Random walks
- 02/13
- Development and organogenesis
- 02/20
- The human body
- 02/27
- Life and the planet and living together
- 03/06
- Superheroes: sizing up nature’s freaks