Catalog 2024-2025

BIO 401 On the Origin of Species

This course highlights the historic and modern relationships between the study of biology and the shaping of evolutionary theory. Students learn about Charles Darwin and his contemporaries as well as modern research on evolution and zoology with particular emphasis on zoology, paleontology, and related fields as they develop and persist in British culture. The course co-requisite (BIO 401A Darwin's London) requires travel to London and surrounding areas, allowing greater depth of study on topics ranging from natural selection and evolution to paleontology, the history of the biological sciences, and the vertebrate diversity of England.

Baccalaureate Experience

(NS-Biological)

Credits

2-4

Prerequisite

Biology lower-core curriculum, any Biology Category II or Category III course, and Permission of Instructor.

Corequisite

BIO 401A

Distribution

(Category II)

Offered

occasionally in spring semester