BIOS 105 - Environmental Biology – Dr. Stephen Malcolm.

Lee Honors College, Fall 2004 (30 September 2004)

Bonus point opportunity 2 (5 points):

Please write a one-page summary of the 12-page cover articles from pages 24-35 of the September 18-24 issue of New Scientist on “Civilisation, How human nature created the modern world.”

For credit please hand in this completed sheet with your name by Tuesday, 12 October 2004.

Bonus point opportunity 3 (5 points):

Please give me a one-page summary of your research project design in which you briefly outline the following:

1) Observation

2) Hypotheses (null and alternative)

3) Methods:

a. assays or indicators of performance

b. treatments (country categories)

c. replicates (how many countries in each treatment)

d. proposed methods of analysis (e.g. scatter graphs to show correlations, or histograms/bar charts, possible statistical analyses).

For credit please hand in this completed sheet with your name by Thursday, 28 October 2004.