Evolutionary Dynamics as a Component of Stage
... that populations of this species are declining due to deer herbivory (Knight 2004). Here we show that deer selectively consume early-flowering individuals. Flowering time is known to have a genetic basis in many plant species (Murfet 1977; Geber and Griffen 2003), and so there is the potential for a ...
... that populations of this species are declining due to deer herbivory (Knight 2004). Here we show that deer selectively consume early-flowering individuals. Flowering time is known to have a genetic basis in many plant species (Murfet 1977; Geber and Griffen 2003), and so there is the potential for a ...
Evolutionary Approaches to Creativity
... been capable of representing an idea once the object was no longer being present, such representations were more likely to be visual rather than verbal (Feist, 2006). Also, thought during this time period was most likely only first-order; the capacity for thinking about thinking (i.e., metacognition ...
... been capable of representing an idea once the object was no longer being present, such representations were more likely to be visual rather than verbal (Feist, 2006). Also, thought during this time period was most likely only first-order; the capacity for thinking about thinking (i.e., metacognition ...
Signatures of Natural Selection and Ecological Differentiation in
... to by chance or by convergence. I will discuss the concept of convergence in Sect. 17.6, but for now let’s explore the idea of descent. When we talk about descent in bacteria, we could mean at least two different things: one is the bifurcating tree of cellular descent by clonal cell division; the ot ...
... to by chance or by convergence. I will discuss the concept of convergence in Sect. 17.6, but for now let’s explore the idea of descent. When we talk about descent in bacteria, we could mean at least two different things: one is the bifurcating tree of cellular descent by clonal cell division; the ot ...
Darwin`s Theory of Evolution Powerpoint presentation
... 16.2 Ideas That Shaped Darwin’s Thinking To find an explanation for change in nature, Darwin studied change produced by plant and animal breeders. Breeders knew that individual organisms vary, and that some of this variation could be passed from parents to offspring and used to improve crops and liv ...
... 16.2 Ideas That Shaped Darwin’s Thinking To find an explanation for change in nature, Darwin studied change produced by plant and animal breeders. Breeders knew that individual organisms vary, and that some of this variation could be passed from parents to offspring and used to improve crops and liv ...
"Adaptive Evolution of Primate Sperm Proteins".
... considers the importance of reproduction to the persistence of the species, because rapid evolutionary changes may jeopardize the coordinated steps of mating and fertilization. However, the importance of these proteins could be the reason behind their rapid evolution. Mounting evidence suggests that ...
... considers the importance of reproduction to the persistence of the species, because rapid evolutionary changes may jeopardize the coordinated steps of mating and fertilization. However, the importance of these proteins could be the reason behind their rapid evolution. Mounting evidence suggests that ...
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... allow organisms phenotypic flexibility in different environments. However, despite several attempts, little evidence exists for its role in adaptation. We performed a meta-analysis in yeast to identify the genetic basis of AP in bi-parental segregants, natural isolates, and a laboratory strain genome ...
... allow organisms phenotypic flexibility in different environments. However, despite several attempts, little evidence exists for its role in adaptation. We performed a meta-analysis in yeast to identify the genetic basis of AP in bi-parental segregants, natural isolates, and a laboratory strain genome ...
The Evolutionary Emergence of Vertebrates From Among Their
... should thus come as no surprise to discover, therefore, that the origin of vertebrates has been the subject of intense debate since the earliest days of evolutionary research. In his book Before the backbone, Henry Gee recounts a great number of theories that, over the last century and a half, have ...
... should thus come as no surprise to discover, therefore, that the origin of vertebrates has been the subject of intense debate since the earliest days of evolutionary research. In his book Before the backbone, Henry Gee recounts a great number of theories that, over the last century and a half, have ...
Chapter 13 - MDC Faculty Home Pages
... Lamarck and Evolutionary Adaptations • Lamarck suggested a mechanism that we now know is wrong. • Lamarck proposed that by using or not using its body parts, an individual may develop certain traits that it passes on to its offspring, thus, acquired traits are inherited. • Lamarck helped set the st ...
... Lamarck and Evolutionary Adaptations • Lamarck suggested a mechanism that we now know is wrong. • Lamarck proposed that by using or not using its body parts, an individual may develop certain traits that it passes on to its offspring, thus, acquired traits are inherited. • Lamarck helped set the st ...
The evolution of animal genitalia: distinguishing between
... suggested that sexual selection by cryptic female choice (Thornhill, 1983; Eberhard, 1994, 1996) is responsible for genitalic evolution. According to the cryptic female choice hypothesis, male genitalia function as internal, tactile courtship devices that stimulate/titillate multiply-mated females t ...
... suggested that sexual selection by cryptic female choice (Thornhill, 1983; Eberhard, 1994, 1996) is responsible for genitalic evolution. According to the cryptic female choice hypothesis, male genitalia function as internal, tactile courtship devices that stimulate/titillate multiply-mated females t ...
Chapter 7 - geraldinescience
... Forming a New Species, continued • Separation Speciation often begins when a part of a population becomes separated from the rest. • Adaptation Populations constantly undergo natural selection. After two groups have separated, natural selection may act on each group in different ways. ...
... Forming a New Species, continued • Separation Speciation often begins when a part of a population becomes separated from the rest. • Adaptation Populations constantly undergo natural selection. After two groups have separated, natural selection may act on each group in different ways. ...
This paper has been accepted for publication in Science
... literature points to a contriver. Darwin‘s contriver, however, was not God, but rather natural selection. By expressing his radically new theory in a language his contemporaries were familiar with and accepted, Darwin tried to win his audience over to this novel way of thinking about nature. In this ...
... literature points to a contriver. Darwin‘s contriver, however, was not God, but rather natural selection. By expressing his radically new theory in a language his contemporaries were familiar with and accepted, Darwin tried to win his audience over to this novel way of thinking about nature. In this ...
Sexual reproduction, in one form
... studies, explanations for differences in mutation accumulation other than the presence or absence of sexual reproduction must also be considered, such as a more stringent ‘selection arena’37,38 during sexual reproduction, or differences in the effective sizes of sexual and asexual populations. Altog ...
... studies, explanations for differences in mutation accumulation other than the presence or absence of sexual reproduction must also be considered, such as a more stringent ‘selection arena’37,38 during sexual reproduction, or differences in the effective sizes of sexual and asexual populations. Altog ...
Natural Selection PhET Simulation
... Lamarck’s idea that the environment altered an individual’s shape and then those changes were inherited was incorrect. Lamarck was a botanist who studied evolution in the 18th century before Darwin. He had opposing ideas that animals were able to choose their evolutionary fate. For example, Lamarck ...
... Lamarck’s idea that the environment altered an individual’s shape and then those changes were inherited was incorrect. Lamarck was a botanist who studied evolution in the 18th century before Darwin. He had opposing ideas that animals were able to choose their evolutionary fate. For example, Lamarck ...
Natural Selection Scripted - UTeach Outreach
... Lamarck’s idea that the environment altered an individual’s shape and then those changes were inherited was incorrect. Lamarck was a botanist who studied evolution in the 18th century before Darwin. He had opposing ideas that animals were able to choose their evolutionary fate. For example, Lamarck ...
... Lamarck’s idea that the environment altered an individual’s shape and then those changes were inherited was incorrect. Lamarck was a botanist who studied evolution in the 18th century before Darwin. He had opposing ideas that animals were able to choose their evolutionary fate. For example, Lamarck ...
Evolution-Fitness and Rocks
... must have evolved from the same ancestral structure . . . Except when we don’t think two organisms shared a common ancestor with that structure. Molecular Biology - More or less the same idea as comparative anatomy - Similar genetic information indicates common origin Comparative Embryology - Simila ...
... must have evolved from the same ancestral structure . . . Except when we don’t think two organisms shared a common ancestor with that structure. Molecular Biology - More or less the same idea as comparative anatomy - Similar genetic information indicates common origin Comparative Embryology - Simila ...
Temperature- Dependent Sex Determination (TSD): benefits and
... that “TSD has evolved independently in at least two lineages of montane lizards that are viviparous (live bearing) rather that oviparous (egg laying)” (Langkilde and Shine 2005). These variable appearances of TSD and possible independent evolutions suggest that the different traits are highly variab ...
... that “TSD has evolved independently in at least two lineages of montane lizards that are viviparous (live bearing) rather that oviparous (egg laying)” (Langkilde and Shine 2005). These variable appearances of TSD and possible independent evolutions suggest that the different traits are highly variab ...
Decent With Modification Darwin`s Theory
... must have evolved from the same ancestral structure . . . Except when we don’t think two organisms shared a common ancestor with that structure. Molecular Biology - More or less the same idea as comparative anatomy - Similar genetic information indicates common origin Comparative Embryology - Simila ...
... must have evolved from the same ancestral structure . . . Except when we don’t think two organisms shared a common ancestor with that structure. Molecular Biology - More or less the same idea as comparative anatomy - Similar genetic information indicates common origin Comparative Embryology - Simila ...
ALFRED RUSSEL WALLACE AND THE DARWINIAN SPECIES
... was also an evolutionist in this mould. Another example of a Lamarckian evolutionist of this general persuasion was the anonymous author of “The Vestiges of Creation” (published in 1844, the author was later revealed to be Robert Chambers).2 Wallace read this work before embarking on his first tropi ...
... was also an evolutionist in this mould. Another example of a Lamarckian evolutionist of this general persuasion was the anonymous author of “The Vestiges of Creation” (published in 1844, the author was later revealed to be Robert Chambers).2 Wallace read this work before embarking on his first tropi ...
Mallet, J. (2010). Group selection and the biological species
... definition. The distinction between adaptation at the individual (or gene) and at the population or species level had not been clearly distinguished, at least until the mid-1960s (Hamilton 1964; Williams 1966), and was publicized widely only by the 1970s (Wilson 1975; Dawkins 1976). I propose the th ...
... definition. The distinction between adaptation at the individual (or gene) and at the population or species level had not been clearly distinguished, at least until the mid-1960s (Hamilton 1964; Williams 1966), and was publicized widely only by the 1970s (Wilson 1975; Dawkins 1976). I propose the th ...
PseudoScience.ppt - Heinz Lycklama`s Website
... Natural selection accounts for the “apparent design” in life ...
... Natural selection accounts for the “apparent design” in life ...
Estimation of the upper limit of the mutation rate and mean
... of U and Uhs with the method of Deng et al. (2006). In brief, mutations are assumed to be strictly deleterious for the fitness trait studied, and a variable proportion of them are assumed to have a pleiotropic advantageous effect on another fitness trait, generating overdominance on global fitness. Usin ...
... of U and Uhs with the method of Deng et al. (2006). In brief, mutations are assumed to be strictly deleterious for the fitness trait studied, and a variable proportion of them are assumed to have a pleiotropic advantageous effect on another fitness trait, generating overdominance on global fitness. Usin ...
A Simulation of the Process of Evolution
... The purpose of this exercise is to: Simulate changes that in nature would require considerable time so that basic principles can be illustrated. Help you develop an understanding of important factors that affect the evolution of a species. Demonstrate important biological and environmental sel ...
... The purpose of this exercise is to: Simulate changes that in nature would require considerable time so that basic principles can be illustrated. Help you develop an understanding of important factors that affect the evolution of a species. Demonstrate important biological and environmental sel ...
Plant sex chromosome evolution
... genetic sex determination. In monoecious species and in environmental sex determination, genes are, of course, involved in the sex-determining developmental pathway, but there are no sex-determining loci, since all individuals are either monoecious, and capable of developing flowers of either sex, o ...
... genetic sex determination. In monoecious species and in environmental sex determination, genes are, of course, involved in the sex-determining developmental pathway, but there are no sex-determining loci, since all individuals are either monoecious, and capable of developing flowers of either sex, o ...
On the Origin of Controversies: Improving California Science
... that encourage the inclusion of multiple viewpoints in public schools. While advocates of an exclusively evolutionary discussion put up a united front, they need not fear the debate surrounding origins that is flourishing within the scientific community. Their concerns result in the formation of edu ...
... that encourage the inclusion of multiple viewpoints in public schools. While advocates of an exclusively evolutionary discussion put up a united front, they need not fear the debate surrounding origins that is flourishing within the scientific community. Their concerns result in the formation of edu ...
Adaptive divergence in contiguous populations of Darwin`s Small
... as habitat, food type and foraging height). According to this ecological theory of speciation, the efficiency with which different resources are used between habitats will vary with phenotype, with stabilizing selection occurring for phenotypes that are close to the adaptive fitness peak, and with l ...
... as habitat, food type and foraging height). According to this ecological theory of speciation, the efficiency with which different resources are used between habitats will vary with phenotype, with stabilizing selection occurring for phenotypes that are close to the adaptive fitness peak, and with l ...