6.877J / HST.949J Computational Evolutionary Biology, Fall 2005
A giraffe, also known as a cameleopard because the creature has the size of the camel, but has the skin of a leopard. (Image by Prof. Robert Berwick.)
课程重点
This course features extensive lab information in the labs section. A partial set of lecture notes is also available.
课程描述
Why has it been easier to develop a vaccine to eliminate polio than to control influenza or AIDS? Has there been natural selection for a 'language gene'? Why are there no animals with wheels? When does 'maximizing fitness' lead to evolutionary extinction? How are sex and parasites related? Why don't snakes eat grass? Why don't we have eyes in the back of our heads? How does modern genomics illustrate and challenge the field?
This course analyzes evolution from a computational, modeling, and engineering perspective. The course has extensive hands-on laboratory exercises in model-building and analyzing evolutionary data.
技术需求
Special software is required to use some of the files in this course: .gz, .zip, .c, .exe, .dll, .so, .fas, and .fasta. The .h files are header files.
