| Slide 1 |
| What Darwin Didnšt Know |
| or - | |
| Why I am not a Darwinist |
| Slide 3 |
| Slide 4 |
| What Darwin got right: |
| Common Descent | |
| Natural Selection | |
| Sexual Selection | |
| Biogeography | |
| Population-based perspective | |
| Evidence, evidence, evidence |
| What Darwin got wrong |
| Heredity |
| Major Post-Darwinian Events |
| Genetics: 1900s-1920s | |
| Neo-Darwinian Synthesis: 1930s-1940s | |
| Molecular Biology: 1950s- | |
| Evo-Devo: 1980s- | |
| Genomics, Bioinformatics: 1990s- | |
| Fossils! |
| Pachyaena |
| Ambulocetus |
| Dalanistes |
| Rhodocetus |
| Basilosaurus |
| Slide 13 |
| Slide 14 |
| Reptile toxins |
| Suzuki Y, Nijhout HF (2006) Science 311:650-652 |
| Pharyngeal arches |
| Development of chick parathyroid |
| Where is the fish parathyroid? |
| Chordate body plan |
| Arthropod body plan |
| Annelid body plan |
| Arthropod Hox genes |
| Chordate Hox genes |
| Hemichordate Hox genes |
| A hypothetical common ancestor |
| What else should Darwin know? |
| Age of the earth and plate tectonics | |
| Mass extinctions and catastrophes | |
| Cambrian and pre-Cambrian fossil record | |
| Instances of observed evolution | |
| Molecular systematics and phylogeny | |
| Genomics: human, chimp, mouse, fly | |
| New model systems | |
| Development, regulation, gene interactions | |
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| Slide 28 |
| Recommended Reading |