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BIO 301 (Comparative Vertebrate Anatomy)-
Discovery Channel's "Before the Dinosaurs" provides some interesting insights, review and animations of some animals covered in lecture.
1. Print the following document: BeforeTheDinosaurs as a topical guide.
2. Follow the link link here to the first video and work through the 10-part series (Episode 1, pt. 1 through Episode 2, pt. 5) in order: click here.
LECTURE: Images
LABORATORY: Weekly Lab Schedule & Handouts
COR 401 (Science and Human Nature: Biological Sciences)- Reading list with URLs for readings not provided in class.
Titles indicated by a "URL" after are a webpage (i.e. URL). Simply follow the link and read and/or print.
Titles indicated by a "(PN)" after are a .pdf found on the Petrelnet reserves. In each case I have provided a hotlink to the reserve main page for your convenience. Simply follow the link, select the course (COR401), select the reading (by author(s)) and read and/or print.
Date
Reading(s) to be prepared for that day
“Starting in the Middle”
25 August (Tu)
“Pinker on Brown on Human Universals” (URL)
27 August (Th)
N. Augustine “What We Don’t Know Does Hurt Us” (URL); DDI pp. 23- 34
1 September (Tu)
S. Pinker “Why they kill their Newborns” (URL)
3 September (Th)
S. McKillup “’Doing Science’- Hypotheses, Experiments and Disproof”
8 September (Tu)
10 September (Th)
E.O. Wilson “Scientists Scholars Knaves and Fools” (URL); Bernard Lewis What Went Wrong? (Pp. 78- 81)
15 September (Tu)
R. Dawkins The Blind Watchmaker (Preface); C. Darwin, et al. “On the Tendency of Species to Form Varieties” (with close attention to pp. 46- 50)
Required Video #1 (of 3): Darwin’s Dangerous Idea) 6:00- 8:00 pm; location TBA- food and drinks provided)
17 September (Th)
B. Bryson “Darwin’s Singular Notion”
22 September (Tu)
K. Dial “Wing-assisted incline running…” (Follow instructions outlined here); J. Weiner The Beak of the Finch (Chpts. 1 & 2); J. Travis “Eye-Opening Gene:….” (URL)
24 September (Th)
29 September (Tu)
J. Weiner The Beak of the Finch” (Chpt. 4); R. Grant “Evolution in Darwin’s Finches:…” (PN)
** SEE THE NOTE AT THE BOTTOM for directions on getting e-reserves through "Moodle" **“The Modern Synthesis”
1 October (Th)
DDI Chpt. 5; Watson, J.D. and F.H. Crick “A Structure for Deoxyribose Nucleic Acid” (PN or URL) (read the version available online that provides historical annotations: URL)
Required Video #2 (of 3): The Double Helix (6:00- 8:00pm; location TBA- food and drinks provided)
6 October (Tu)
Scan: J.D. Watson and F.H. Crick “Genetical Implications…” (PN or URL); Scan: R.E. Franklin and R.G. Gosling “Molecular Configuration…” (PN or URL); DDI pp. 113- 118; B. Maddox Rosalind Franklin: The Dark Lady of DNA (Epilogue); B. Maddox “The double helix and…” (URL)
8 October (Th)
Examination #1 (covers 08/25- 10/01)
13 October (Tu)
NO CLASS: Fall Break Holiday
15 October (Th)
“Student Manual: Basic Instructions” (pp. 18- 22); “Mutation and Selection”; DDI pp. 149- 163
20 October (Tu)
R. Dawkins The Selfish Gene (Chpts. 1 & 3)
22 October (Th)
“Humans as Biological, Psychological and Social Beings”
27 October (Tu)
J. Diamond Guns, Germs and Steel (Chpt. 1); I. Tattersall “Once We Were Not Alone” (PN)
29 October (Th)
3 November (Tu)
OV (prologue & Chpt. 1)
5 November (Th)
Required Video #3 (of 3): Judgment Day: Intelligent Design on Trial (6:00- 8:00pm; location TBA- food and drinks provided)
10 November (Tu)
OV (Chpts. 2, 3); R.L. Heilbroner The Essential Adam Smith (pp. 159- 172); DDI (pp. 253- 255)
12 November (Th)
17 November (Tu)
OV (Chpts. 4, 7); Heilbroner The Essential Adam Smith (pp. 65- 72)
19 November (Th)
24 November (Tu)
OV (Chpt. 12); R. Monastersky “The Killing Fields: What Robbed the Americas of their Most Charismatic Mammals?” (URL)
26 November (Th)
NO Class: Thanksgiving Holiday
1 December (Tu)
3 December (Th)
December 8 (Tu)
Final Examination (11:00 section- section I): 11:15- 2:15
December 10 (Th)
Final Examination (1:30 section- Section II): 2:30- 5:30
** USING MOODLE to get e-reserves:
1. follow the "PN" link
2. Login using the "login" link at the upper right corner(use your OU netowrk login and password)
3. click "CORE"
4. click "Science and Human Nature: Biological Sciences Section XX" (section does not matter- pick either)
5. click "Electronic Reserves"
6. open the folder
7. open, read and print
