HONORS EVOLUTION II – CHECKING FOR UNDERSTANDING
Student Objective & Reading Check
Activities & Assignments
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Caminalcules: Part I
Fossil Questions
Geologic Time Scale
Radioactive Decay Activity
Online Activity 15.4
Plant Evolution
Animal Evolution
Hawaiian Continental Drift
Hawaiian Drosophila Radiation
Speciation in the Ensatina Salamanders
Video
Great Transformations
Extinctions
In Search of Human Origins: The Story of Lucy
In Search of Human Origins: Survival in Africa
Lectures
Geologic Time Scale PP
Hominid Relatives PP
Continental Drift PP
Species & Speciation PP
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Chapter Reading
Chapter 14 (290 – 321)
14.2 Evolution has left much evidence
Chapter 15 (322 – 351)
15.1 The diversity of life is based on the
origin of new species.
Section Concepts
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Geographic Distribution
Similarities in Structure
Similarities in Development
Molecular Biology
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What is a Species?
From Microevolution to
Macroevolution
Reproductive Barriers
between Species
Geographic Isolation and
Speciation
The Tempo of Speciation
Refinement of Exiting
Adaptations
Adaptation of Existing
Structures to New Functions
Evolution and Development
How Fossils Form
The Fossil Record and the
Geologic Time Scale
Dating Fossils
Continental Drift and
Macroevolution
Mass Extinction
What is Taxonomy?
The Linnaean System of
Classification
Classification and Evolution
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15.2 Evolution is usually a remodeling
process
15.3 The fossil record provides evidence of
life’s history
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15.4 Modern taxonomy reflects evolutionary
history
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