LECTURES Dr In s Horovitz e mail horovitz ucla edu i horovitz juno com TEACHING ASSISTANT Julie Meachen Samuels jmeachen ucla edu OFFICE HOURS In s Horovitz by appointment Wednesdays 12 1 pm in Lab room 1113 Life Sciences and Fridays 10 11 am in room 5213 Julie Meachen Samuels Tuesday and Wednesday 1 2 in lab room LS 1113 or LS 5213 TEXTBOOKS Feldhamer G A Drickamer L C Vessey S H and J F Merritt Mammalogy Adaptation diversity and ecology Second Edition 2004 McGraw Hill Martin R E Pine R H and DeBlase A F A manual of mammalogy with keys to families of the world Third Edition 2001 MacGraw Hill Additional basic reading for systematics Chapter 5 The tree of life Classification and Phylogeny in Evolutionary Biology by Douglas Futuyma Third edition 1998 Sinauer Associates MIDTERM Monday Nov 6 FINAL Week of Dec 11 15 LECTURE SYLLABUS Friday Sept 29 Trapping systematics sources of data Monday Oct 2 Structure and function skull skeleton hair claws nails and hooves Wednesday Oct 4 Characters and phylogenetic trees Friday Oct 6 Fossils and mammal evolution Monday Oct 9 Teeth and feeding Wednesday Oct 11 Sensory and endocrine systems biological rythms Environmental adaptations Friday Oct 13 Environmental dapatations continued Reproduction Monday Oct 16 Monotremes and marsupials Wednesday October 18 Marsupials cont Artiodactyla Friday Oct 20 Artiodactyla cont Cetacea Monday Oct 23 Cetacea cont Perissodactyla Wednesday Oct 25 Tubulidentata Pholidota Friday Oct 27 Macroscelidea Dermoptera Monday Oct 30 Xenarthra Tenrecs and golden moles Wednesday Nov 1 Lipotyphla Proboscidea Friday Nov 3 Review Monday Nov 6 Midterm Wednesday Nov 8 Hyracoidea Sirenia Friday Nov 10 Holiday Sunday Nov 12 Trip aboard Sea World Monday Nov 13 Rodentia Lagomorpha Wednesday Nov 15 Primates Friday Nov 17 Bats Monday Nov 20 Communication aggression and spatial relations Wednesday Nov 22 Sexual selection mating systems and parental care Friday Nov 24 Holiday Monday Nov 27 Tree shrews Carnivores Wednesday Nov 29 Carnivores cont Friday Dec 1 Dispersal habitat selection and migration Monday Dec 4 Zoogeography Wednesday Dec 6 Conservation Friday Dec 8 Review