Institute of Continuing Education (ICE)
Interested in evolution? Ever wondered why life on Earth takes the forms it does? This Certificate course combines the input of evolutionary biologists, geneticists and ecologists from across Cambridge to explore the evidence for evolution in the behaviour, morphology and genomes of living animals and plants as well as in the fossil record. You will learn how the process of natural selection affects the way organisms look and behave, how they survive in a changing world, how they reproduce and how these differences are encoded in the genome. Discover how groups of organisms can co-evolve and interact to form complex ecosystems. Learn the basics of human evolution and the impacts of artificial selection and anthropogenic changes on evolutionary processes.
Our undergraduate courses are now being delivered entirely online, enabling students to study flexibly with the University of Cambridge from anywhere in the world.
We offer a range of tuition fee bursaries to promote access to and participation in continuing education.