For Today:

• Work through example of Bayesian thinking (here).
• Does selection still play a role in human evolution? Read abstracts of article on Natural selection in a contemporary human population and Natural and sexual selection in a monogamous historical human population
• Read Wikipedia entry on Toxoplasma and behaviour
• Take home exam #7 is due

If time,

• listen to radiolab on parasites
• Do STDs increase frequency to behavious that leads to transmission?
• Does the same apply at the gene level? Do HEs that relay on "sex" of the host, impact sex frequency? (see here)
• take home exam #7 is due

For Friday

• Refresh you knowledge of Baysian approaches to phylogenetic inference.
  Read the following sections in the Wikipedia entry http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bayesian_inference_in_phylogeny: Intro, Bayesian Inference of Phylogeny, Background and Bases, Pitfalls and controversies, MRBAYES software for Bayesian Inference of Phylogeny)

For Monday

• Read through Wikipedia entries on modern synthesis and mutationism
• Read through first two entries of the curirous disconnect here and here (feel free to keep on reading)

Slides for today on role of duplications, sex and HGT in evolution, types of selection.