The single concept underpinning all of life science is that new traits and new species arise through a process of natural selection -- but how exactly does that work?

In this one-week class, through a combination of lecture and discussion, students will learn that genes serve as an instruction manual for how to make an animal's body, and will come to understand how gene mutations can act like typos or edits in the instruction manual, changing how the body functions. Then, students will use...