Overview
Syllabus
Intro
Cities viewed as "anti-life"
Urbanization- A global phenomenon
Cities as "living laboratories"
Cities drive evolution in 4 ways
White clover (Trifolium repens)
Genetics of cyanogenesis
Prediction: more HCN in urban environments
Less HCN in urban environments
Question 1: How common are HCN clines?
Questions: Phenotypic clines in cyanogenesis
Question 2: Does frost/snow predict HCN clines?
What's driving HCN clines?
Theoretical models of evolution in urban environments
Strong drift drive clines in HCN, but not with gene flow
Questions: Phenotypic clines in HCN
What's driving these clines
Urban evolution - A global phenomenon
Acknowledgments
Taught by
Harvard University