From BDMetsch@uci.edu Fri Mar 7 12:26:13 1997 Date: Fri, 7 Mar 1997 09:27:24 -0800 From: Brian Metscher To: 03139-W97@mercury.oac.uci.edu, 03140-W97@mercury.oac.uci.edu, pamarase@uci.edu, kabeckma@uci.edu, hccarste@uci.edu, satya@uci.edu, sschrodi@newt.bio.uci.edu, MARCHANT@uci.edu, VRDEFILI@uci.edu Subject: Last Bio94 readings Hi class, Here are the last reading assignments for this quarter. (Please disregard what's in the syllabus for next week.) 24 Feb. - 7 Mar.: as on syllabus (589-94; 609-54; 482-50) 10 Mar.: 1172-8; 1184-6; 1200-3. Look at enough of the rest if the chapter that these sections make sense to you. 12-14 Mar.: read 963-4, 971-4; look over 975-8; read 986-90. The questions we'll be addressing in the last week concern the biological basis of what makes us what we are - How do we fit into all this diversity you've been studying? Is the individual coded in its genes, like the popular conception would have it? Are we humans really unique among animals, removed from them by a quantum evolutionary jump? Or are we nothing but another variation among the great diversity of animal forms? Monday I'll show a video on chimpanzees, and how new views of them are changing our zoological view of ourselves and other animals. On Wednesday I'll discuss the video in class, and then start talking more about the developmental basis of the animal body. That discussion will continue into Friday's lecture, and I'll reserve part of the period for questions. Brian D. Metscher Dept. of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology University of California Irvine, CA 92697, USA ph. 714 824-3670 fax 714 824 2181 bdmetsch@uci.edu