What makes difference and what difference does difference make?
In this part of the course we will work towards understanding the evolution of our species while also squeezing in Chapter 13. Chapter 13 is about how species form and how we define species. This information will be useful as we work to understand our very own species and our evolutionary history. During these last several weeks as we wrap up the course by reading parts of the book “Racism not Race,” please keep asking yourself “What makes difference and what difference does difference make?”!
Week of April 20st
- FRI- CH 13 Origin of Species, Introduction, Please read Love in the time of climate changeGrizPolBears
Week of April 27th (Work on Mega Project)
–>>”Full Final Research Paper” Due today before 5pm-paper copy-put under my door if needed!
- MON- CH 13 Origin of Species (CH 13 Reading Guide Due in Google Classroom)
- WED- Read this RecentHumanEvolSpring26 and watch this on Neanderthals and this on interbreeding. (What is adaptive introgression?)
- FRI- Human Evolution Wrap up Read :How Neanderthals Gave Us Secret Powers
Week of May 4th (Present Posters in Lab)
- MON- Read from Racism not Race (CH2 and CH4)
- WED- Read from Racism not Race (CH6 and CH 7) (Great if you read them but if you have not, maybe take some time to BROWSE the sections you think are most interesting!! There is a lot of info!)
- FRI- Read from Racism not Race (CH9) (I dropped CH 5)
Week of May 11th
- MON-Read carefully – ChouV 2017 Harvard Blog How Science and Genetics are Reshaping the Race Debate. Also read this AAPA_Race_statement_March_2019 and https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-51914782
- TUES-Final Exam (70pts) will be taken in our Lab during your regularly scheduled Lab Time! The last page of the Final will consist of questions that focus on our work in lab this semester and will count as your “Lab Quiz” (20pts).
- WED-Last Day Activity-hmm maybe a walk in Norway Valley? If you are interested come meet in class-maybe I’ll grab the binocs too! No worries if you just want to sleep though!
FYI:
- Study Guide for the final and the lab quiz is here: Final Exam Review26.
- Put your questions about the final exam here!
- Do you remember who is who?
Ppts are here …
- CH13Species 2026
- HumanEvol2026 (This one has all the images for the Image Analysis activity we did in class.)
- HumanVariation+Race2026 Part I
- Here is the “Image Analysis or Gallery Walk” with your voting results AND with your Connections to CH2! GalleryWalkImagesScored26
Other resources…
- This is a great video (8 minutes long) that talks about discoveries that the Y chromosome in Neanderthals is more similar to human Y chromosomes than their most recent common ancestor’s Y (their most recent common ancestor are Denisovans). Further indicating lots of ancient interbreeding. Talks about gene flow and ramifications of small populations!
- Love in the time of climate changeGrizPolBears (I assigned this-great 2 page article on interbreeding as climate warms)
- Whats in a name? (This is an excellent wrap up of the challenges of different species concepts applied to birds-nice pictures!)
- RedWolvesSpecies? (Also interesting)
- Watch this quick video Human Migrations with Nice Music and, if you are not sure about how we reconstruct human migrations with molecular markers, look over this MolMarkersWithColoredBlocks
- Neanderthals, Interbreeding and Recent Human Evolution- Neanderthal traits in us
- An excellent short article describing Skin Pigmentation-Vit D-Folate story Discover Mag Vit D Folate
- Can someone pass as a Neanderthal?
- News article about two identical sisters submitting their DNA to multiple different companies.
- Genes We Lost PBS (I had you watch this but we never discussed it. It is really interesting and will contribute to your overall understanding! Vit C and Evolution)
- Confused by the fact that you and some pretty close relatives may not share any DNA? Watch this-yay recombination! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RZWB_xt0chY
- Still confused with meiosis and mitosis. Amoeba sister’s videos are also usually pretty good on youtube!
- This website is good review (there are many others out there too). YourGenome.org
- Does anyone need practice reading trees? Check this one out.