EE BIOL 184Evolution, Development, and Disease
Ecology and Evolutionary Biology · 4 units · Undergraduate upper division (100-199)
Exploration of developmental mechanisms underlying evolution of animal design, including impacts of environment on these mechanisms. Exploration of what happens to animal form, including that of humans, when these developmental mechanisms are disrupted by environmental and genetic factors.
Letter grading.
When it runs
- Summer 2026
Scheduled, not typical — from UCLA’s Schedule of Classes, which publishes Fall 2025 through Spring 2027 and nothing before it.
Requisites
Official UCLA wording
Requisite: Life Sciences 7B. Recommended requisite: course 103, 110, 120, M157, C174, or 185.
BruinTree reads · Prerequisite
confidence 1.00 · from textBruinTree reads · Recommended
needs reviewconfidence 0.75 · from text- · mixed comma-level AND/OR in "course 103, 110, 120, M157, C174, or 185" — grouping is a best reading
Requires
Everything that has to come before this course, not just the courses named in the requisite above.
EE BIOL 184
- EE BIOL 103Plant Diversity and Evolution
- LIFESCI 7ACell and Molecular Biology
- EE BIOL 110Vertebrate Morphology
- LIFESCI 7BGenetics, Evolution, and Ecology
- EE BIOL 120Evolution
- MATH 3ACalculus for Life Sciences Students
- MATH 1Precalculus
- MATH 3BCalculus for Life Sciences Students
- MATH 31ADifferential and Integral Calculus
- LIFESCI 7CPhysiology and Human Biology
- LIFESCI 7LIntroduction to Laboratory and Scientific Methodology
- LIFESCI 30BMathematics for Life Scientists
- LIFESCI 30AMathematics for Life Scientists
- EE BIOL M157Biology of Superheroes: Exploring Limits of Form and Function
- EE BIOL C174Comparative Biology and Macroevolution
- EE BIOL 185Evolutionary Medicine
7 direct requisites. The whole upstream is here — 30 courses over 3 levels. Every course here opens its own tree.
Unlocks
What this course is a requisite for, and what those courses lead to in turn.
No course in the catalog lists this as a requisite.