Teaching plan for the course unit (Short version)
Català English Close

 

General information

 

Course unit name: Human Biodiversity II

Course unit code: 568578

Academic year: 2021-2022

Coordinator: Araceli Rosa de la Cruz

Department: Department of Evolutionary Biology, Ecology and Environmental Sciences

Credits: 2,5

Single program: S

Estimated learning time

Total number of hours 62.5

 

Face-to-face and/or online activities

16

	-  Lecture	Face-to-face		14
	-  Seminar	Face-to-face		2

Supervised project

16.5

Independent learning

30

Learning objectives

Referring to knowledge — Identify the traits that define human populations, hierarchical population structure and processes involved in the development of population substructure. — Explain changes in human populations at different levels. — Describe genetic disorders and the factors that cause them.

 

 

Teaching blocks

 

1. Human population diversity from a morphological and genetic perspective

2. Differentiation between large human groups based on classical, single-parent systems and genomic data

3. Adaptation by natural selection: phenotypic variation and genetic variability

4. Biodiversity and epigenetics

5. The concept of race

6. The future of the human species


Note that the total completion of this content may be subject to official COVID-19 restrictions.