Course Overview

Students will learn the methodology to understand the diversity of multicellular animals from the viewpoint of evolutionary biology. In particular, learn in detail the origin of the metazoans, the evolution of the diploblasts, mollusks, echinoderms, and chordates, and learn how to reconstruct the evolutionary history by comparing modern animals.

Learning Achievement

Understand the concept of maximum parsimony to reconstruct evolutionary history
Understand the evolutionary origin of metazoans
Understand the evolution of mollusc bodyplan
Understand the evolution of echinoderm bodyplan
Understand the evolution of chordate bodyplan

Competence

Students will learn the methodology to understand the diversity of multicellular animals from the viewpoint of evolutionary biology. In particular, learn in detail the origin of the metazoans, the evolution of the diploblasts, mollusks, echinoderms, and chordates, and learn how to reconstruct the evolutionary history by comparing modern animals.

Course prerequisites

Grading Philosophy

Course schedule

Course type

Lectures

Online Course Requirement

Instructor

Wada Hiroshi

Other information

This lecture is planned as face-to-face, but it may be changed to online depending on the situation. See Syllabus or recent information from manaba for detail.
Open in even number years.
Lecture is conducted in English.
Biodiversity course. GloBE Course. JTP
Who has credit of EB50121 or EB50131 is ineligible.

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