BIOLOGY 311D

Instructor: Dr Donald A. Levin
(Section of Integrative Biology, UT)
Office: Biological Laboratories 204.
Office hours: T/TH, 10:30 - 11:30pm
Telephone: 471-4685




Main parts of the course

 

       Class Articles

  1. NYT: New Species Revealed: Tiny Cousins of Humans
  2. One Giant Step for Mankind (with pictures)
    One Giant Step for Mankind (text only)
  3. NYT: Storm in Mexico Devastates Monarch Butterfly Colonies
  4. NYT: When HIV. Made Its Jump to People
  5. Repeated Blows
    Repeated Blows (text only)
  6. New York Times Article: Desire for Sons Drives Use of Prenatal Scans in China
  7. Dorothy, It's Really Oz
  8. Australia's Rabbits Face All-Out Viral Attack
  9. Ten Years of the Chornobyl Era
  10. Rain Forest Primeval? Colorado fossils show unexpected diversity
  11. Time Article: Father of Us All?
  12. Time Article: The Ozone Vanishes
  13. Science Article: If the Mercury Soars, So May Health Hazards
  14. Scientific American: Skin Deep
  15. New York Times Article: Global Warming Found to Displace Species
  16. NYT: Meteor May Have Started Dinosaur Era
  17. Nature: Parasites Lost
  18. Science Article: Ecology - African Elephant Species Splits in Two
  19. NYT: In Ancient Skulls From Ethiopia, Familiar Faces
  20. NYT: Beyond Cute: Exotic Pets Come Bearing Exotic Germs
  21. Reuters: Antarctic Ozone Hole Sets Record
  22. CNN: Arctic being 'transformed' by warming
  23. CNN: Ocean census finds 3 new species a week
  24. Statesman: Evolution at center of textbook debate
  25. CNN: Climate change may endanger monarch butterflies
  26. NYT: Comparing Genomes Shows Split Between Chimps and People
  27. NYT: Scientists Predict Widespread Extinction by Global Warming
  28. NYT: In Lice, Clues to Human Origin and Attire
  29. NYT: A Biological Hot Spot in Africa, With New Species Still to Discover
  30. NYT: English, Irish, Scots: They're All One, Genes Suggest
  31. NYT: Scientists Detail Climate Changes, Pole to Tropics
  32. NYT: Genes Take Charge, and Diets Fall by the Wayside
  33. NYT: Giant Bird-Like Dinosaur Fossil Found in China
  34. NYT: Humans Have Spread Globally, and Evolved Locally
  35. NYT: Fast-Reproducing Microbes Provide a Window on Natural Selection
  36. NYT: The Human Family Tree Has Become a Bush With Many Branches
  37. NYT: From a Few Genes, Life's Myriad Shapes
  38. NYT: Study Says Eldest Children Have Higher I.Q.s
  39. Scientific American: Climate Change
  40. NYT: How to Reduce Shootings
  41. BBC: Climate change around the world
  42. NYT: Warming Is Seen as Wiping Out Most Polar Bears
  43. Gorillas head race to extinction
  44. NYT: Scientists Report Retreat of Arctic Ice
  45. BBC: Some Neanderthals were probably redheads, a DNA study has shown.
  46. SCIDIRECT: Biological Consequences of Chernobyl:20 Years On
  47. UT: The Tree of Life
  48. TIME: The New Age of Extinction