Overheads and Notes from Eric's Lectures

For lectures when I used typed overheads, they are available below. There may also be some supplemental notes for some lectures, as indicated.

If you are feeling adventurous, you can download all of the lecture overheads for my half of the course as a single 35-page, 2.9 Mb pdf file by clicking here.

• June 22, 1999 Evolutionary Fundamentals
  • Lecture Overheads (pdf 160k)
  • Supplemental Notes (html). These are several pages expanding on some of the themes from quantitative genetics that you should know. You may read it as html or download it as a 144k pdf document
• June 24, 1999 Optimality Models and Evolutionarily Stable Strategies
  • Lecture Overheads (pdf 132k)
  • Some notes about ESS's (pdf 112k). I didn't have overheads for this part of the lecture, but the material roughly followed these notes
• June 29, 1999 Optimal Foraging Theories
  • Lecture Overheads (First 24) (pdf 252k)
• July 1, 1999 Bumble bees in the wild and applications of foraging theory. Then Territoriality
  • Lecture Overheads (First 16) (pdf 360k) Most of the lecture notes for the first half of the lecture.
  • Lecture Overheads (Last 12) (pdf 65k). The lecture notes on territoriality minus some of the graphs
  • ***NEW*** A Few of the Graphs (pdf 844k). Some of the graphs showing results of experiments relating to territoriality.
• July 6, 1999 Signalling and Communication in animals
  • Lecture Overheads (First 17) (pdf 140k) The lecture notes for the first half of the lecture.
  • Lecture Overheads (Last 12) (pdf 38k) Sex and sexual selection notes
• July 8, 1999 Mating systems and Kin selection
  • Lecture Overheads: Mating Systems (pdf 24k) The lecture notes for the first half of the lecture.
  • Lecture Overheads (Last 17) (pdf 232k) Social behaviors; primarily altruism and evolutionary explanations thereof.
• July 13, 1999 Alarm calling, sentinels, life-history traits
  • Lecture Overheads: Alarm calling and sentinels (pdf 40k) The lecture notes for the first half of the lecture.
  • Lecture Overheads: Life History Traits (pdf 160k) The lecture notes for the second half of the lecture.
• July 15, 1999 Life-history traits, phenotypic plasticity, senescence
  • Lecture Overheads (18 of them) (pdf 540k)