1. First Exam Thursday 28 September
Covers Chapters 1-4, 6-7 plus Chapter 16
and first 8 lectures, 5 discussions, plus 8 Readings:
Scientific Methods
Natural Selection
On Human Nature
Our Hunter-Gatherer Heritage
Evolution of Uncaring Humanoids
Unburnable Oil
Population Growth
Evolution’s Problem Gamblers
Lecture # 8
26 September 2017

5. Great Auk

6. Emperor penguin

9. Marine Diatoms
Pliocene Era
5.333 million
to 2.58 million
years BP

18. Rainshadow Effect

20. Climographs
Plot average
Monthly
Temperature
Against
Average
Precipitation

22. Two plots of temperature against moisture
Two plots of temperature against moisture. (a) Climographs for an area in Montana where the Hungarian partridge was introduced successfully and a Missouri locality where its introduction failed, compared to the average climatic conditions of its European geographic range. Apparently Missouri summers are too hot and/or too wet for these birds. (b) Plots of temperature versus relative humidity in 1927 and 1932 in Israel superimposed on optimal (inner rectangle) and favorable (outer rectangle) conditions for the Mediterranean fruit fly.

23. World Net of Weather Stations

24. The Interface between Climate and Vegetation

25. The Interface between Climate and Vegetation Plant Life Forms and Biomes Tundra Taiga (northern coniferous forest, spruce forest) Temperate Deciduous forest Temperate Rain forest Tropical Rain forest Tropical Deciduous forest Tropical Scrub forest Temperate grassland and savanna Chaparral (“Mediteranean”) Desert (warm, cold) Mountains (complex zonation)

27. Geographic Distribution of Climates

28. Geographic Distribution of Climates

29. Distribution of Major Vegetation Types

30. Biomes of the World
Distribution of Major Vegetation Types

31. Chaparral
Chaparral
Chaparral
Chaparral
Chaparral

32. Chaparral

33. Rainforest

34. Rainforest

35. Tundra

36. Taiga

37. Temperate
Forest

38. Temperate
Deciduous
Forest

39. Grassland

42. Grassland

43. Grassland
“Prairie”
Grassland

44. Namib Desert

45. Sahara Desert

46. Sonoran Desert

47. Great Victoria Desert, Australia