Eric Baack has been a professor in the Biology Department since 2007, and was the director of the Environmental Studies program. Some of his course topics include Evolutionary Biology, Biostatistics, ...

Lect. Studies the principles of biology and their implications. Central theme is humans and the environment, emphasizing ecology, natural resource conservation, and the interrelatedness of a growing ...

Modern DNA-sequencing techniques have opened doors to studying the genetics of divergence and speciation in unprecedented detail thanks to the availability of massive genomic datasets on non-model ...

** I expect you to read: Avise, J.C. 2004. Chapter 7: Speciation and hybridization. In Molecular Markers, Natural History and Evolution (2nd edn.). Chapman and Hall, New York. Having at least briefly ...

With a solid understanding of biology on the small scale under our belts, it's time for the long view - for the next twelve weeks, we'll be learning how the living things that we've studied interact ...

Although habitat fragmentation fosters extinctions, it also increases the probability of speciation by promoting and maintaining divergence among isolated populations. Here we test for the effects of ...

Darwin suggested that the action of natural selection can produce new species, but 150 years after the publication of his famous book, 'On the Origin of Species', debate still continues on the ...