Speciation & Phylogenetics
A 16-module path through speciation & phylogenetics, in study order from foundations to the frontier.
Modules
- The Biological Species Concept
- Alternative Species Concepts
- Reproductive Isolating Mechanisms
- Allopatric Speciation
- Sympatric Speciation
- Polyploidy and Instantaneous Speciation
- Hybrid Zones and Reinforcement
- The Genetics of Speciation
- Reading Phylogenetic Trees
- Homology versus Analogy
- Monophyly, Paraphyly, and Polyphyly
- Cladistics & Maximum Parsimony
- Molecular Phylogenetics
- Maximum Likelihood & Bayesian Phylogenetics
- The Tree of Life
- Systematics & Classification