Data
Official data in SubjectManager for the following academic year: 2024-2025
Course director
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Mátics Róbert
associate professor,
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Number of hours/semester
lectures: 24 hours
practices: 0 hours
seminars: 0 hours
total of: 24 hours
Subject data
- Code of subject: OPF-SB1-T
- 2 kredit
- Pharmacy
- Optional modul
- both
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Course headcount limitations
min. 5 – max. 15
Available as Campus course for . Campus-karok: BTK TTK
Topic
Prof Robert Sapolsky at Stanford University uploaded a free course on biology of the human behaviour, which has many aspects connected to molecular genetics and behavioral genetics - new fields of research affecting our understanding of sex, aggression, language, diseases like schizophrenia and so on. In this course we will hear and see each one of his 2010 lectures in ca. 45-60 min. pieces and discuss the information delivered. The lectures can be stopped at any point so that emerging questions are negotiated in detail.
Curriculum:
1. General introduction, Behavioral evolution I. Key facts
2. Behavioral evolution II. Game theory
3. Behavioral evolution III. Misconceptions
4. Behavioral evolution IV. Intersexual conflicts and diseases
5. Molecular genetics I. Chimps to humans 97%, sibling to sibling 50%?
6. Molecular genetics II. Morphology vs function
7. Molecular genetics III. Diseases
8. Molecular genetics IV. Beyond disease
9. Behavioral genetics I. I've found the gene for that!
10. Behavioral genetics II. Prenatal effects
11. Behavioral genetics III. Metro dogs
12. Behavioral genetics IV. Gene-environment interactions; summary, questions, feedback
Lectures
- 1. General introduction - Mátics Róbert
- 2. Behavioral evolution I. Key facts - Mátics Róbert
- 3. Behavioral evolution II. Game theory - Mátics Róbert
- 4. Behavioral evolution II. Game theory - Mátics Róbert
- 5. Behavioral evolution III. Misconceptions - Mátics Róbert
- 6. Behavioral evolution III. Misconceptions - Mátics Róbert
- 7. Behavioral evolution IV. Intersexual conflicts and diseases - Mátics Róbert
- 8. Behavioral evolution IV. Intersexual conflicts and diseases - Mátics Róbert
- 9. Molecular genetics I. Chimps to humans 97%, sibling to sibling 50%? - Mátics Róbert
- 10. Molecular genetics I. Chimps to humans 97%, sibling to sibling 50%? - Mátics Róbert
- 11. Molecular genetics II. Morphology vs function - Mátics Róbert
- 12. Molecular genetics II. Morphology vs function - Mátics Róbert
- 13. Molecular genetics III. Diseases - Mátics Róbert
- 14. Molecular genetics III. Diseases - Mátics Róbert
- 15. Molecular genetics IV. Beyond disease - Mátics Róbert
- 16. Molecular genetics IV. Beyond disease - Mátics Róbert
- 17. Behavioral genetics I. I've found the gene for that! - Mátics Róbert
- 18. Behavioral genetics I. I've found the gene for that! - Mátics Róbert
- 19. Behavioral genetics II. Prenatal effects - Mátics Róbert
- 20. Behavioral genetics II. Prenatal effects - Mátics Róbert
- 21. Behavioral genetics III. Metro dogs - Mátics Róbert
- 22. Behavioral genetics III. Metro dogs - Mátics Róbert
- 23. Behavioral genetics IV. Gene-environment interactions - Mátics Róbert
- 24. Summary, questions, feedback - Mátics Róbert
Practices
Seminars
Reading material
Obligatory literature
none
Literature developed by the Department
Hand-outs
Notes
Extended notes by Prof Sapolsky, if you need them
The lectures can be found at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NNnIGh9g6fA&list=PL848F2368C90DDC3D
Recommended literature
Axelrod R, Hamilton WD: The Evolution of Cooperation, Science 211, 1390-1396. Classic paper on the subject, 1981
Cornwallis C et al.: Promiscuity and the Evolutionary Transition to Complex Societies, Nature 466, 969. 2010 Hard, give intro to how to read.
Conditions for acceptance of the semester
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Mid-term exams
Make up by appointment
Making up for missed classes
Make-up classes possible, we'll have to make appointments.
Exam topics/questions
No detailed questions are asked about which gene does what, rather a synthesis and deep understanding of the connections between genetics, behaviour, disease etc. should be reached and given back.