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About the CourseThis course presents the principles of evolution, ecology, and behavior for students beginning their study of biology and of the environment. It discusses major ideas and results in a manner accessible to all Yale College undergraduates. Recent advances have energized these fields with results that have implications well beyond their boundaries: ideas, mechanisms, and processes that should form part of the toolkit of all biologists and educated citizens. view class sessions >> Course Structure:This Yale College course, taught on campus three times per week for 50 minutes, was recorded for Open Yale Courses in Spring 2009. |
About Professor Stephen C. Stearns
Stephen C. Stearns is the Edward P. Bass Professor of Ecology and
Evolutionary Biology and specializes in life history evolution and
evolutionary medicine. He was educated at Yale, the University of
Wisconsin, and the University of British Columbia. His books
include Evolution, an Introduction; Watching from the Edge of
Extinction; and The Evolution of Life Histories, and he is the editor of
Evolution in Health and Disease and The Evolution of Sex and Its
Consequences. He founded and has served as president of the European
Society for Evolutionary Biology and the Tropical Biology Association. |