02_whole - Massey Research Online
... The tensions between Darwinian theory and theology are well-known. The process of evolution by natural selection as hypothesised by Darwin directly contradicts the account of God’s creation of Adam in Genesis: “And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the ...
... The tensions between Darwinian theory and theology are well-known. The process of evolution by natural selection as hypothesised by Darwin directly contradicts the account of God’s creation of Adam in Genesis: “And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the ...
A Select Few Annotated References on Darwin`s
... science). In this work, the author speculates about the future of humankind specifically as related to social and biological conditions. He concludes that humans are wild animals “just like any other species of animal” (p. 115) which fortunately has been tamed by civilization, a process that he call ...
... science). In this work, the author speculates about the future of humankind specifically as related to social and biological conditions. He concludes that humans are wild animals “just like any other species of animal” (p. 115) which fortunately has been tamed by civilization, a process that he call ...
The Evolution of Darwinism: Selection, Adaptation, and Progress in
... progress (Chapter 7; additional discussion of this highly contested issue appears in the Appendix)? How have later biologists addressed this issue (Chapter 8)? Does talk of “higher” and “lower” organisms make sense? Are some organisms more “advanced” than others? Is there an overall direction to evo ...
... progress (Chapter 7; additional discussion of this highly contested issue appears in the Appendix)? How have later biologists addressed this issue (Chapter 8)? Does talk of “higher” and “lower” organisms make sense? Are some organisms more “advanced” than others? Is there an overall direction to evo ...
Regents Biology
... But when you look under the skin… It tells an evolutionary story of common ancestors ...
... But when you look under the skin… It tells an evolutionary story of common ancestors ...
Evolutionary Psychology as Maladapted Psychology
... Neither Darwin nor Wallace was the first to press that evolution should shape our understanding of human psychology. Well before the Origin, Herbert Spencer also embraced an evolutionary vision for humans. Spencer was a prominent and imposing figure in Victorian intellectual circles, and was also tr ...
... Neither Darwin nor Wallace was the first to press that evolution should shape our understanding of human psychology. Well before the Origin, Herbert Spencer also embraced an evolutionary vision for humans. Spencer was a prominent and imposing figure in Victorian intellectual circles, and was also tr ...
The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Darwin and Evolutionary Thought
... the distance from the British scientific community was significant, both in his thinking about geology and also on his mind frame as he now started to work toward the problem of organic origins. That Darwin, in the mid-1830s – always remember that it was in this decade that Darwin did his creative ...
... the distance from the British scientific community was significant, both in his thinking about geology and also on his mind frame as he now started to work toward the problem of organic origins. That Darwin, in the mid-1830s – always remember that it was in this decade that Darwin did his creative ...
Ecological genetics of floral evolution
... determinants of adaptive evolution. Early work focused on simple floral polymorphisms, because they were amenable to study, but more recent work has used their simplicity to understand the genetic mechanisms underlying adaptation in unprecedented detail. Because most floral adaptations are not simpl ...
... determinants of adaptive evolution. Early work focused on simple floral polymorphisms, because they were amenable to study, but more recent work has used their simplicity to understand the genetic mechanisms underlying adaptation in unprecedented detail. Because most floral adaptations are not simpl ...
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... model of Kondrashov et al. (2002) really are necessary to account for their empirical results. The present study attempts to answer this question, but within a broader context. The study begins with a brief, partial survey of the currently available data on DMI accumulation, of which Kondrashov et a ...
... model of Kondrashov et al. (2002) really are necessary to account for their empirical results. The present study attempts to answer this question, but within a broader context. The study begins with a brief, partial survey of the currently available data on DMI accumulation, of which Kondrashov et a ...
The Darwinian Revelation: Tracing the Origin and Evolution of an Idea
... change was more problematic for Darwin than one might assume. One reason for this was the widespread notion that domesticated organisms varied only within limits, and that variations amounted to “monstrosities”—occasional novelties, great in magnitude. A related view held that these organisms were u ...
... change was more problematic for Darwin than one might assume. One reason for this was the widespread notion that domesticated organisms varied only within limits, and that variations amounted to “monstrosities”—occasional novelties, great in magnitude. A related view held that these organisms were u ...
May 2013
... Speaking of birds, another story on Science Daily and Live Science claims that a bird that “lived after the time of dinosaurs” is the ancestor of hummingbirds and swifts: the analyses“ suggest that the bird was an evolutionary precursor to the group that includes today’s swifts and hummingbirds.” Th ...
... Speaking of birds, another story on Science Daily and Live Science claims that a bird that “lived after the time of dinosaurs” is the ancestor of hummingbirds and swifts: the analyses“ suggest that the bird was an evolutionary precursor to the group that includes today’s swifts and hummingbirds.” Th ...
- Wiley Online Library
... example, in Phlox pilosa, flower color divergence decreases hybridization with Phlox glaberrima, but pollinators disfavor the diverged ‘sympatric’ flower color (Levin & Kerster, 1967). If the loss of pollinator visitation caused by preference for other colors outweighs the benefit of reduced hybridi ...
... example, in Phlox pilosa, flower color divergence decreases hybridization with Phlox glaberrima, but pollinators disfavor the diverged ‘sympatric’ flower color (Levin & Kerster, 1967). If the loss of pollinator visitation caused by preference for other colors outweighs the benefit of reduced hybridi ...
Lecture 3: Origin of Life (Part-I)
... forward by two scientist, A.I. Oparin and J.B.S Haldane. It has made following assumptions: 1. Spontaneous generation of life under the present environment is not possible. 2. Earth’s atmosphere ~1 billion years is very different from the current conditions. 3. Primitive earth’s atmosphere was reduc ...
... forward by two scientist, A.I. Oparin and J.B.S Haldane. It has made following assumptions: 1. Spontaneous generation of life under the present environment is not possible. 2. Earth’s atmosphere ~1 billion years is very different from the current conditions. 3. Primitive earth’s atmosphere was reduc ...
SURFACE: detecting convergent evolution from comparative data by
... independently. Such clade-wide convergence can be interpreted as lineages independently responding to the same selective regimes, or equivalently, discovering the same adaptive peaks on a macroevolutionary adaptive landscape (Schluter 2000). In what follows, we do not distinguish between convergence ...
... independently. Such clade-wide convergence can be interpreted as lineages independently responding to the same selective regimes, or equivalently, discovering the same adaptive peaks on a macroevolutionary adaptive landscape (Schluter 2000). In what follows, we do not distinguish between convergence ...
Live Where You Thrive: Joint Evolution of Habitat Choice and Local
... classical asexual dispersal-selection models comprise three steps: mixing and dispersal between two different habitats, selection within habitats, and density regulation. By definition of these models, selection is phenotype-dependent and density-independent, whereas density regulation is density-de ...
... classical asexual dispersal-selection models comprise three steps: mixing and dispersal between two different habitats, selection within habitats, and density regulation. By definition of these models, selection is phenotype-dependent and density-independent, whereas density regulation is density-de ...
populations - apbiologyclass
... • Paleontology, the study of fossils, was largely developed by French scientist Georges Cuvier • Cuvier advocated catastrophism, speculating that each boundary between strata represents a catastrophe ...
... • Paleontology, the study of fossils, was largely developed by French scientist Georges Cuvier • Cuvier advocated catastrophism, speculating that each boundary between strata represents a catastrophe ...
Evolutionary Dynamics as a Component of Stage
... models are often employed in conservation studies to project population dynamics, but such analyses have not incorporated evolutionary dynamics. We project evolutionarily informed population trajectories for a population of the perennial plant Trillium grandiflorum, which is declining due to high le ...
... models are often employed in conservation studies to project population dynamics, but such analyses have not incorporated evolutionary dynamics. We project evolutionarily informed population trajectories for a population of the perennial plant Trillium grandiflorum, which is declining due to high le ...
Murdering Darwin`s Child—Toward an Intelligent Evolution and a
... lace’s formulation was rooted in experience better suited to the kinds of massive—even global—kinds of macroevolutionary species change that made Darwin’s theory the unique and controversial idea that it was. In an amazingly perceptive article, Melinda B. Fagan has found that the differences in the ...
... lace’s formulation was rooted in experience better suited to the kinds of massive—even global—kinds of macroevolutionary species change that made Darwin’s theory the unique and controversial idea that it was. In an amazingly perceptive article, Melinda B. Fagan has found that the differences in the ...
Rowing locomotion by a stonefly that possesses the ancestral
... clade of crustaceans, whose wings evolved from mobile gills that already had the articulation, musculature and neural pattern required for creating fluid dynamic forces. This hypothesis has received support from recent phylogenetic and developmental studies (see below), yet it remains to be determin ...
... clade of crustaceans, whose wings evolved from mobile gills that already had the articulation, musculature and neural pattern required for creating fluid dynamic forces. This hypothesis has received support from recent phylogenetic and developmental studies (see below), yet it remains to be determin ...
Force–velocity trade-off in Darwin`s finch jaw function: a
... associated with vocal performance in Darwin’s finches covary negatively with overall beak size (Podos 2001; Huber & Podos 2006). This co-variation presumably arises because high performance songs require rapid and broad jaw gape modulations that cannot be achieved by large-beaked birds with high bit ...
... associated with vocal performance in Darwin’s finches covary negatively with overall beak size (Podos 2001; Huber & Podos 2006). This co-variation presumably arises because high performance songs require rapid and broad jaw gape modulations that cannot be achieved by large-beaked birds with high bit ...
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... • Georges Cuvier developed Paleontology, he advocated catastrophism, speculating that each boundary between strata represents a catastrophe • Geologists James Hutton and Charles Lyell perceived that changes in Earth’s surface can result from slow continuous actions still operating today • Lyell’s p ...
... • Georges Cuvier developed Paleontology, he advocated catastrophism, speculating that each boundary between strata represents a catastrophe • Geologists James Hutton and Charles Lyell perceived that changes in Earth’s surface can result from slow continuous actions still operating today • Lyell’s p ...
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... • Georges Cuvier developed Paleontology, he advocated catastrophism, speculating that each boundary between strata represents a catastrophe • Geologists James Hutton and Charles Lyell perceived that changes in Earth’s surface can result from slow continuous actions still operating today • Lyell’s p ...
... • Georges Cuvier developed Paleontology, he advocated catastrophism, speculating that each boundary between strata represents a catastrophe • Geologists James Hutton and Charles Lyell perceived that changes in Earth’s surface can result from slow continuous actions still operating today • Lyell’s p ...
Chapter 22 PowerPoint - Darwinian View of Life
... • The mechanisms he proposed are unsupported by evidence Bonsai trees are "trained" to be dwarf, a seen will produce a normal sized tree ...
... • The mechanisms he proposed are unsupported by evidence Bonsai trees are "trained" to be dwarf, a seen will produce a normal sized tree ...
Descent with Modification
... • The mechanisms he proposed are unsupported by evidence Bonsai trees are "trained" to be dwarf, a seen will produce a normal sized tree ...
... • The mechanisms he proposed are unsupported by evidence Bonsai trees are "trained" to be dwarf, a seen will produce a normal sized tree ...
Theory and speciation
... certainly occurs, few examples are unambiguous or widely accepted. Because it is harder to demonstrate sympatric than allopatric speciation, these first two lines of evidence are compromised by an ascertainment bias. However, recent comparative analyses5 (Barraclough and Nee16, this issue) show that ...
... certainly occurs, few examples are unambiguous or widely accepted. Because it is harder to demonstrate sympatric than allopatric speciation, these first two lines of evidence are compromised by an ascertainment bias. However, recent comparative analyses5 (Barraclough and Nee16, this issue) show that ...
Theory and speciation
... certainly occurs, few examples are unambiguous or widely accepted. Because it is harder to demonstrate sympatric than allopatric speciation, these first two lines of evidence are compromised by an ascertainment bias. However, recent comparative analyses5 (Barraclough and Nee16, this issue) show that ...
... certainly occurs, few examples are unambiguous or widely accepted. Because it is harder to demonstrate sympatric than allopatric speciation, these first two lines of evidence are compromised by an ascertainment bias. However, recent comparative analyses5 (Barraclough and Nee16, this issue) show that ...