Undergraduate Course: Plant Evolution (PLSC10020)
Course Outline
| School | School of Biological Sciences |
College | College of Science and Engineering |
| Credit level (Normal year taken) | SCQF Level 10 (Year 4 Undergraduate) |
Availability | Not available to visiting students |
| SCQF Credits | 10 |
ECTS Credits | 5 |
| Summary | The origin, diversification, speciation and domestication of flowering plants
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| Course description |
This course considers the evolution of flowering plants, including their origin, diversification, speciation and domestication as crops. It integrates evidence from a wide range of disciplines, ranging from paleontology, through ecology and biogeography to genetics. Teaching is through a combination of short lectures, class discussions and seminars. There is extensive reading of both reviews and primary literature.
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Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
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Co-requisites | |
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Other requirements | None |
Course Delivery Information
| Not being delivered |
Learning Outcomes
On completion of this course, the student will be able to:
- Appreciation of the diversity of flowering plants and the drivers behind this
- Understanding of the effects of domesticaton on plants and the history of major crops
- Understanding how breeding systems affect evolution
- Ability to dissect, criticise and present primary literature
- Construction and defence of hypothesis based on primary literature
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Reading List
Recommended background texts:
Plant Variation and Evolution Briggs and Walters 1997
Speciation Coyne and Orr (2004) |
Additional Information
| Graduate Attributes and Skills |
Not entered |
| Keywords | PLSCPlaEvol |
Contacts
| Course organiser | Dr Catherine Kidner
Tel: (0131 6)51 3316
Email: Catherine.Kidner@ed.ac.uk |
Course secretary | Miss Emma Currie
Tel: (0131 6)50 8649
Email: Emma.Currie@ed.ac.uk |
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