Learn · Evolution in the Genomic Era
Lecture 7 of 40Week 2
Darwin’s Beagle Voyage: Biogeography, Fossils, and Natural Selection
Prof. Nagarjun Vijay · IISER Bhopal
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All the lectures
- Introduction to Evolutionary Genomics
- Proto-Evolutionary Thought and Early Foundations
- From Fixity to Mutability, Deep Time, and Fossils
- Pre-Darwinian Evolution: Buffon, Lamarck, Egypt, and Cuvier
- Before Darwin I: Ibis, Uniformitarianism, Catastrophism, Lyell, and Embryology
- Before Darwin II: Voyages, Biogeography, Malthus, Vestiges, and Convergence
- Darwin’s Beagle Voyage: Biogeography, Fossils, and Natural Selection
- Darwin’s Island Laboratories, Tree of Life, and Natural Selection
- Darwin’s Origin of Species: Structure and Four Principles
- Wallace, Natural Selection, and Darwin’s Broader Legacy
- Darwin’s Reception: Jenkin’s Critique, Inheritance, and Modern Synthesis
- Modern Synthesis I: Inheritance, Traits, Mutationism, and Gradualism
- Modern Synthesis II: Microevolution, Macroevolution, Species, and Adaptation
- Beyond Modern Synthesis I: Evo-Devo, Neutral Theory, Clocks, Punctuated Equilibrium
- Beyond Modern Synthesis II: EES, Niche Construction, Selection, and Transitions
- Applications of Evolutionary Genomics
- Reintroducing Evolution: Evidence, Trees, and Four Evolutionary Forces
- Adaptive Evolution: Selection, Fitness, and Limits of Adaptation
- Neutral Evolution: Drift, Bottlenecks, Founder Effects, and Selection Signatures
- Sexual Selection: Competition, Choice, Post-Mating Selection, and Dimorphism
- Evolutionary Contingency: Mutations and Fitness Effects
- Model Organisms, Sticklebacks, HWE, and Deviations
- Undertanding Deterministic Selection and Drift with Evidence
- HWE Deviations: Migration, Recombination, LD, and Adaptive Architecture
- Genotype to Phenotype: Trait Architecture and Evolutionary Forces
- Speciation: From Population Divergence to New Species
- From Morphology to Molecular Phylogenetics
- Genetic Markers – Choosing the Right Molecular Lens
- From Phylogenetics to Phylogenomics: Trees and Discordance
- Substrates for Evolution I: Gene Content, Structural Variation, and Phylogenomics
- Substrates for Evolution II: Regulation, Gene Expression, Genomes, and Phenotypes
- Molecular Signatures of Selection from Sequence Evolution
- Molecular Tests of Selection: dN/dS Analysis
- Beyond dN/dS: McDonald-Kreitman Test and Adaptive Evolution
- Beyond dN/dS: Lineage Selection, Convergence, and Gene Loss
- Population Genomic Selection Scans: Methods, Metrics, and Confounders
- Genetic Diversity Measures: Heterozygosity, Pi, Watterson’s Theta, FST, and DXY
- Site Frequency Spectrum
- Haplotype-Based Selection Metrics
- Selection Scan Confounders: Demography, Sweeps, and Polygenic Adaptation