With Evolutionary Psychology I and II, Allen D. MacNeill of Cornell University led a thought-provoking series of lectures on why people do the things they do. In Evolutionary Biology I, MacNeill addresses a different side of the coin by examining the biological component, from Charles Darwin’s and Gregor Mendel’s “dangerous ideas” to contemporary thought leaders and the forming of the modern synthesis of this vital field of study.
Lecture 1 Darwin's Revolutionary Idea
Lecture 2 Consensus and Controversy
Lecture 3 Doing Science
Lecture 4 Chance and Necessity
Lecture 5 The Origin of the Origin
Lecture 6 The Darwinian Manifesto: Natural Selection
Lecture 7 The Darwinian Manifesto: Descent with Modification
Lecture 8 Mendel's Dangerous Idea
Lecture 9 Equilibrium Violated: The Hardy-Weinberg Law
Lecture 10 Fisher, Haldane, and Wright
Lecture 11 Natural Selection and Speciation
Lecture 12 Disturbing Implications
Lecture 13 Disastrous Digressions
Lecture 14 A Temporary Unity