Species Concept. Evolutionary theories, Jean Baptiste Lamarck, Charles Darwin.
The origin of the species. Natural selection. Evidence in favor of the theory of evolution. Genetics of the
populations. Modern synthesis. Definition of population, growth curves, biotic potential, capacity
carrier, dependent density factors, independent density factors, competition, reproductive strategies.
Hardy-Weinberg's law. The biological species, reproductive barriers. From DNA to proteins, the genome, the
mutations. Epigenetics. Embryonic development. EVO-DEVO