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<p class="MsoNormal">Please see below for a course announcement from EEB.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><em><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black;font-style:normal">Graduate seminar for Fall 2021 (ECOL 596W) </span></b></em><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><em><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black;font-style:normal">Course title: Macroecology, macroevolution, and speciation </span></b></em><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><em><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black;font-style:normal">Credit hours: 2 </span></em><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><em><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black;font-style:normal">Meeting: Once per week, for 1:20 minutes </span></em><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><em><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black;font-style:normal">Instructor: John J. Wiens </span></em><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><em><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black;font-style:normal">Goal: The first half of the class will introduce students to diverse areas of macroecology, macroevolution, and speciation. The second half
will focus on a particular topic in these areas, to be selected by the students. Macroecological topics will include species diversity gradients, geographic range sizes, community assembly, and ecological niches. Macroevolutionary topics will include adaptive
radiation and diversification. Topics in speciation will include ecological speciation and speciation genomics. </span></em><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><em><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black;font-style:normal">Course format: The course will emphasize exploring, reading, and discussing the essential primary literature on these topics. </span></em><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><em><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black;font-style:normal">Time and place: TBA, based on an organizational meeting with students
<u>who sign up for the class</u>, during the first week of classes. </span></em><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><em><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black;font-style:normal">Target audience: Ph.D. and Master’s students in EEB and related areas. </span></em><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><em><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black;font-style:normal">NOTE: Projects done in some previous years have led to published papers:</span></em><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><em><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black;background:white;font-style:normal"><a href="http://www.wienslab.com/Publications_files/Hernandez_et_al._BiolRev_2021.pdf" target="_blank">http://www.wienslab.com/Publications_files/Hernandez_et_al._BiolRev_2021.pdf</a></span></em><o:p></o:p></p>
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