John R. Stevenson, Miami University, Oxford, Ohio 45056
This set of undergraduate course notes addresses microbial evolution and systematic. Major topics include Physical Evolution of Earth; Origin of Life on Earth; Early Evolution of Organisms with Increasing Complexity; Atmospheric Oxygen; Classification; Molecular Approaches to Phylogeny; and an Overview of Bacteria, Archaea and Eukarya. The notes include several outlinks to additional sources of information.