Would you like to understand the ecological and evolutionary patterns and processes? Which species are able to adapt to environmental change? Which organisms are able to adapt to global change?
Evolution is a central theme in biology, which pervades all biological disciplines. This minor program is designed to illustrate how evolutionary thinking has penetrated such diverse areas as ecology, genetics, molecular biology, animal physiology and behavioural sciences. Via studying the unifying principles of biology, the program provides an in-depth treatment of selected topics in modern biological sciences, in such a way that students are stimulated to pursue their further studies in a specialized graduate programme focussed on one of these topics. At the same time, this minor provides a broad basis for pursuing a general biology graduate programme combined with a professional career in education or science communication.