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Modelling and estimating natural selection. Autumn 2003
Natural selection is a key component of evolution. This course will introduce students to simple models
of natural selection, and how we can estimate fitness from different types of field and laboratory data.
Only a minimal knowledge of biology will be assumed. Time and place: Nov 3 - Nov 14, Mon, Tue, Thu, Fri: 8-12. Seminar room of RNI (Ylionpistokatu 5, take the lifts next to Alko to the 7th floor, turn right). Lectures by Ph.D. Bob O'Hara. New TimeTable:
* This lecture will be in room 6602 in Biokeskus III in Viikki. Take the lift to the sixth floor, turn right and keep walking straight ahead (but try not to walk through the doors). The slides for the first week's lectures are here: And for the second week, the slides are messy with animations, so here are the notes that go with them. I'm extremely grateful to Bruce Walsh for not objecting to me using his slides and notes. As you might notice, these notes are from a course Bruce Walsh gave (with Bill Muir) here in Helsinki in the summer. There are more notes available here. Feel free to email him to ask when the book on selection will be published. I'm sure he has an automatic answering service for this query. I would heartily recommend buying Volume 1 by Lynch and Walsh. It's a good book for the long hard Finnish winters - it's so thick, you can keep it by your wood heated sauna and use it for months as kindling (to start the fire). And for the final part of the course:
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