3. Behavioral Evolution II

Stanford University.

OK.

Let's get going.

Various announcements, procedural things.

A number of people want more information about grading

and what the exams are like, all of that.

I think I mentioned one-third of the points

will come from the midterm, 2/3 from the final.

In terms of the style of the midterm,

the midterm is heavily going to be

about making sure you got down all the factoids

from the first half of the course,

that you've got the basics of each of our proverbial buckets.

The second half of the final is all

going to be about integration, thinking

across the different categories.

So just a sense of that.

Readings.

Readings, as they are coming out,

the books are not required until the second half of the course.

The handout on Monday, I think, said

which chapters of the [? Zebra ?] book

you should read.

We will shortly get to you which chapters of the [? Chaos ?]

book you should read as well.

The readings that are being posted

on the CourseWorks, the downloads of various published

papers, those are required.

I'm clear on those whether this is

a paper you should read all of, if this is one you

should read the abstract of.

Even if you read all of, do not read it

in some obsessive, detail-oriented way.

The goal is probably to be able to say, in one or two

paragraphs, why this paper has something pertinent to say

about the topic they fell into.

You're not sitting there having to memorize techniques,

middle names of the authors, how many animals, anything

like that.