Humans and their
environments
Professor Daniel H. Janzen, djanzen@sas.upenn.edu
http://fusion.sas.upenn.edu/caterpillar/files/lecture.html
Department
of Biology BIO 140/440
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6 September 2007 |
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This lecture course explores the interface of humans with their environments the world over. The emphasis is on ways that they interface, though given that this is a biology course, there is a strong biology bias. The topic is enormous and examples are presented through 140-minute photographic essays that are also on the course web site. The images are presented here for use as course material and for extra-course learning by anyone with access to the internet. The course is meant to stimulate examination of your environment and your connections with it. See also http://media.sas.upenn.edu/user/view.php?id=9285
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Lectures, Fall Semester, 2007: |
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(1) Ants and Acacias: ecology and evolutionary biology of a mutualism - two stories: your professor - an information entrepreneur - and biology. |
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(2) Mimicry: population ecology, evolution, selection, phylogeny, taxonomy, perception and inference. |
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(3) Lyme disease and the predominant suburban animal, you (Dr. Dustin Brisson, Department of Biology, UPenn, guest lecture) |
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(4) Human and Environmental linkages revealed through stable isotope analysis (Dr. Brent Helliker, Department of Biology, UPenn, guest lecture) |
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(5) How Emma Aronson became your TA, biologist and larval professor (Ms. Emma Aronson, Department of Biology, UPenn, guest lecture) |
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(6) Why do bamboos wait so long to flower? |
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(7) The world is not colored green, but L-dopa, cocaine and cafeine. AND, biodiversity prospecting. |
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(8) A day in the life of an African hunter |
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(9) Socio-economics of tropical timber harvest |
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(10) Animals and their biotic environment: Liomys mice. |
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(11) First mid-semester examination, 1.5 hours (covering through 9 Oct and readings). |
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(12) Fall Break: no classes |
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(13) MOVIE: Paradise Reclaimed - History Revisited |
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(14) Biodiversity development: conservation through non-damaging use, a Costa Rican example. |
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(15) Animals and their biotic environment: Rothschildia moths. |
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(16) The great green solar panel: USE COURSE WEB SITE, NO LECTURE |
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(17) Cognition in wild animals and humans (Dr. Karen Overall, UPenn, Guest Lecturer). |
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(18) Animals and their physical environment: beaver |
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(19) Pleistocene anachronisms: the plants the megafauna left behind |
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(20) Second Mid-Semester Exam: 16 Oct through 8 Nov and readings. |
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(21) View from the inside: the black bear and other assorted guts. |
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(22) What is a flower? |
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(23) What is a fruit and why does it rot? |
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(24) Life on a small Caribbean island |
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(25) Short summers: the arctic |
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(26) Conservation Analysis of an entire country: Costa Rica |
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