Experimental and Investigative Evolution Laboratory (Biology 403) has
been taught at the University of Virginia for the last several years by Janis
Antonovics and Doug Taylor. This course typically enrolls roughly ## students
total, with laboratory sections of about 15 students each. The laboratory
portion of the course is usually divided into four large learning units,
including, microevolution, speciation, reconstructing evolutionary history,
and analyzing genetic change. Within each unit, students complete a prescribed
group laboratory exercise, and then individual students or small groups of
students propose and test hypotheses that build on the first exercise. Each
unit concludes with student presentations of these independent projects.
