This class is SO interesting. It singlehandedly made me want a career in evolution. Exams are open-everything and open for a week long, but they're like mini essays. Lectures are mandatory.

Have mixed review about this class. Gary is a wonderful person and he is willing to help students, but his presentation skills are meh. I played his lectures on two times speed and his speech was still choppy. The class was in depth and readings were difficult, but at the end he seemed to scaled the class and everyone got good grades

The class is pretty chill and straightforward. Gary is a pretty fun lecturer imo, and the concepts arent too bad. Though he is relatively new so he still had some issues, like not posting slides and talking fast at times.

We had random weekly quizzes based on readings. These werent bad if you actually did the readings or paid attention in lecture.

Exams were very straightforward and TAs were generous with points. Review the notes and you will be fine most likely.