Syllabus

Date		Topic		Reading
January 4		Introduction; Hardy-Weinberg proportions		I.1-I.3
6		Multiple alleles, difft. sexes		I.4, I.6
9		Sex-linkage		I.7
11		Linkage and linkage disequilibrium		I.8
13		Natural Selection		II.1-II.2
16		HOLIDAY: Martin Luther King Day
18		" "		II.4, II.5
20		Polymorphisms and fitness		II.6-II.8
23		" " "		II.9-II.11
25		Kin, group and species selection		II.12
27		Mutation		III.1-III.3
30		Maintenance of deleterious mutants		III.4-III.6
February 1		Migration, Clines		IV.1-IV.12
3		" "		" "
6		Inbreeding in pedigrees		V.1-V.6
8		Regular systems of inbreeding mating		V.9-V.12, V.15
10		Inbreeding depression		V.13, V.14
13		Genetic drift		VI.1-VI.4
15		Effective population size		VI.5-VI.8
17		Neutral mutation theory		VII.1-VII.2
20		HOLIDAY: Presidents' Day
22		Neutral mutation theory		VII.1-VII.2
24		Trees of genes		X.4-X.6
27		Trees of genes, the sequel		X.8
March 1		Molecular evolution		VII.7, VII.8
3		Drift and other forces		VII.4,VII.5, VII.9
6		Genetics of quantitative characters		IX.1-IX.5
8		Components of variance		IX.6-IX.9
10		Selection response		" "

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Homeworks will be assigned each week, to be turned in the next week.

Exams: none.

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Text: Theoretical Evolutionary Genetics, by Joe Felsenstein, publication to be arranged, hopefully about $27

The text will also be available as a PDF that can be downloaded:
from this link

The textbook is under revision and will not be in its 2017 version until the end of the first week of class. The 2015 version is similar and can be used until then. (Note added 5/10/2025: the link above is to the 2019 version)

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Course web page: http://felsenst.github.io/courses/gs562/2017/