Jurassic Park: Myth or Reality?
FRS 134, Jurassic Park: Myth or Reality?
Professor Laura Landweber
Princeton University - Spring, 1995

Jan 31   Introduction (and movie!)
Feb 7  Modern Molecular Biology & Evolution (Pequod 1-3; Codes 2;
     Hubbard 4; Lewontin pp.1-57)
Feb 14  Fossil DNA I (Pequod 4-18 and Quest for Life in Amber)
Feb 21  Origin of Life (Pequod 19-29)
Feb 28  Junk DNA (Pequod 30-37)
Mar 7 Fossil DNA II: Rob DeSalle - guest speaker from AMNH

- Spring Break (start reading about genome issues) -
Mar 21  Genome Mapping/Sequencing (Print-It 1-12; Codes part II)
Mar 28  Social Context (Print-It 13-30; Codes 1 and part III; Lewontin pp.58-
     123; Hubbard 1-3, 5-7, 9-12)
Apr 4   Model Organisms and Genome Evolution (Print-It 31-46; 56-58)
Apr 11  Diverse Genes (Print-It 59-71; Hubbard appendix)
Apr 18  The fast pace of technology (Print-It 47-55)
Apr 25  Imprinting, Naked DNA and Gene Therapy (Print-It 72-112;
    Hubbard 8)
May 2, 4 Reading Period Projects

Texts include "Readings in Molecular Evolution" Part I. Jurassic Park: Myth or Reality? (available from Pequod) and Part II. Genome Science in the 1990's (avail. from Print-It).
Poinar and Poinar The Quest for Life in Amber
Kevles and Hood, eds. The Code of Codes
R. C. Lewontin Biology as Ideology
Hubbard and Wald Exploding the Gene Myth
   Kevles and Hubbard contain useful glossaries.