Slide 1
... adaptation to the environment and the origin of new species as closely related processes From studies made years after Darwin’s voyage, biologists have concluded that this is what happened to the Galápagos finches ...
... adaptation to the environment and the origin of new species as closely related processes From studies made years after Darwin’s voyage, biologists have concluded that this is what happened to the Galápagos finches ...
Evolutionary uniformitarianism
... patterns in types of variation upon which natural selection and other evolutionary processes could act. I present a new compilation of the first occurrences of marine invertebrate phyla, classes and equivalent stem groups during the Ediacaran, Cambrian and Ordovician, focusing on the Ediacaran–Cambri ...
... patterns in types of variation upon which natural selection and other evolutionary processes could act. I present a new compilation of the first occurrences of marine invertebrate phyla, classes and equivalent stem groups during the Ediacaran, Cambrian and Ordovician, focusing on the Ediacaran–Cambri ...
Chapter 10: Natural Selection
... Natural selection does cause organisms to become a better fit to their environment Organisms are not necessarily “better”, just better fit to a particular situation Adaptation that is beneficial in one situation might be a liability in another Adaptations are trade-offs between better fit in ...
... Natural selection does cause organisms to become a better fit to their environment Organisms are not necessarily “better”, just better fit to a particular situation Adaptation that is beneficial in one situation might be a liability in another Adaptations are trade-offs between better fit in ...
Chapters 22-23 Evolution - Seattle Central College
... MODEL provides a model based upon certain assumptions to which real populations can be compared. ...
... MODEL provides a model based upon certain assumptions to which real populations can be compared. ...
Neo-Darwinists and Neo-Aristotelians: how to talk about natural
... bird flight, sustain it, and are involved in ending travel, but we might also ask ‘‘why’’ a bird migrates by seeking a rationale for this behavior and treating the bird as if it were seeking to achieve certain aims and acting strategically to do so. Understanding how Mayr approached the ‘‘Why?’’ que ...
... bird flight, sustain it, and are involved in ending travel, but we might also ask ‘‘why’’ a bird migrates by seeking a rationale for this behavior and treating the bird as if it were seeking to achieve certain aims and acting strategically to do so. Understanding how Mayr approached the ‘‘Why?’’ que ...
Challenges to the Theory of Evolution
... direct illustration of evolutionary transitions in my book. If I knew of any, fossil or living, I would certainly have included them. . .I will lay it on the line, There is not one such fossil for which one might make a watertight argument.” -- Dr. Colin Patterson, senior paleontologist at the Briti ...
... direct illustration of evolutionary transitions in my book. If I knew of any, fossil or living, I would certainly have included them. . .I will lay it on the line, There is not one such fossil for which one might make a watertight argument.” -- Dr. Colin Patterson, senior paleontologist at the Briti ...
Evolution5Challenges.ppt - Heinz Lycklama`s Website
... direct illustration of evolutionary transitions in my book. If I knew of any, fossil or living, I would certainly have included them. . .I will lay it on the line, There is not one such fossil for which one might make a watertight argument.” -- Dr. Colin Patterson, senior paleontologist at the Briti ...
... direct illustration of evolutionary transitions in my book. If I knew of any, fossil or living, I would certainly have included them. . .I will lay it on the line, There is not one such fossil for which one might make a watertight argument.” -- Dr. Colin Patterson, senior paleontologist at the Briti ...
Vestiges of the natural history of development: historical holdovers
... that reveal the unfolding dynamic interaction between genotype and phenotype. These holdovers are useful in differentiating and relating concepts of phylogeny and ontogeny as well as revealing benefits of historical reasoning in understanding patterns and processes of organismal change. ...
... that reveal the unfolding dynamic interaction between genotype and phenotype. These holdovers are useful in differentiating and relating concepts of phylogeny and ontogeny as well as revealing benefits of historical reasoning in understanding patterns and processes of organismal change. ...
The Extended Evolutionary Synthesis and the role of soft inheritance
... a kind of change, change that can be caused by natural selection, drift etc. More precisely, a distinction can be drawn between a general theory of evolution and a special theory [23]. The general theory captures the basic Darwinian dynamics of variation, inheritance, competition and selection. This ...
... a kind of change, change that can be caused by natural selection, drift etc. More precisely, a distinction can be drawn between a general theory of evolution and a special theory [23]. The general theory captures the basic Darwinian dynamics of variation, inheritance, competition and selection. This ...
XVIII. Biology, High School - Massachusetts Department of
... in the wild, but in captivity a lion and a tiger may mate with each other and produce offspring. These offspring do not generally live long and cannot typically reproduce. ...
... in the wild, but in captivity a lion and a tiger may mate with each other and produce offspring. These offspring do not generally live long and cannot typically reproduce. ...
Inferring natural selection in a fossil threespine stickleback
... that long-term trends require species selection. Their claims generated heated controversy for two reasons: (1) the process they proposed had limited empirical support, relegating population genetic mechanisms that are readily observed in extant populations to little more than noise, and (2) there w ...
... that long-term trends require species selection. Their claims generated heated controversy for two reasons: (1) the process they proposed had limited empirical support, relegating population genetic mechanisms that are readily observed in extant populations to little more than noise, and (2) there w ...
Evolution PPT2
... Darwin's Observations • He observed many plants and animals were well suited to the environments they inhabited. •He was impressed by the ways in which organisms survived and produced offspring. •Darwin was puzzled by where different species lived and did not live. ...
... Darwin's Observations • He observed many plants and animals were well suited to the environments they inhabited. •He was impressed by the ways in which organisms survived and produced offspring. •Darwin was puzzled by where different species lived and did not live. ...
Thermal adaptation and ecological speciation
... Reproductive isolation driven by thermal adaptation The evidence for such a mechanism from experimental evolution studies is mixed. In several experiments, Drosophila spp. were kept under different thermal conditions and, after many generations, the flies from these different environments were teste ...
... Reproductive isolation driven by thermal adaptation The evidence for such a mechanism from experimental evolution studies is mixed. In several experiments, Drosophila spp. were kept under different thermal conditions and, after many generations, the flies from these different environments were teste ...
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... – In divergent evolution, related populations become less similar as they respond to different environments. – Adaptive radiation is the divergent evolution of a single group of organisms in a new environment. ...
... – In divergent evolution, related populations become less similar as they respond to different environments. – Adaptive radiation is the divergent evolution of a single group of organisms in a new environment. ...
Magic traits - Nosil Lab of Evolutionary Biology
... (see the discussion under ‘Interactions between magic and non-magic traits’ in [1]). Thus, identifying such traits might well pose an important challenge to empiricists. In a similar vein, Haller et al. question the usefulness of distinguishing between magic traits and complexes of non-magic traits ...
... (see the discussion under ‘Interactions between magic and non-magic traits’ in [1]). Thus, identifying such traits might well pose an important challenge to empiricists. In a similar vein, Haller et al. question the usefulness of distinguishing between magic traits and complexes of non-magic traits ...
Reviving the Superorganism
... individuals can be regarded as groups of alleles. When the A-allele is more fit than its alternative, averaged over all the individuals within which the alleles occur, this is not regarded as an argument against individual selection. On the contrary, such differences are required for traits to be he ...
... individuals can be regarded as groups of alleles. When the A-allele is more fit than its alternative, averaged over all the individuals within which the alleles occur, this is not regarded as an argument against individual selection. On the contrary, such differences are required for traits to be he ...
Chapter 7 Changes Over Time
... What important observations did Darwin make on his voyage? How did Darwin account for the diversity of species and the differences between similar species? How does natural selection lead to evolution? ...
... What important observations did Darwin make on his voyage? How did Darwin account for the diversity of species and the differences between similar species? How does natural selection lead to evolution? ...
Evolving entities - Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B
... species interactions or limits on space or resource (Williams 1992; Rosenzweig 1996). These effects must also be mediated via their influence on speciation and extinction. Yet, a general dynamical framework is lacking. Moreover, higher level studies often focus on ‘neutral’ aspects of diversity, suc ...
... species interactions or limits on space or resource (Williams 1992; Rosenzweig 1996). These effects must also be mediated via their influence on speciation and extinction. Yet, a general dynamical framework is lacking. Moreover, higher level studies often focus on ‘neutral’ aspects of diversity, suc ...
peppered moth survey
... 3. What could be done to return the environment of the peppered moth to its original state? _________ ...
... 3. What could be done to return the environment of the peppered moth to its original state? _________ ...
7th grade Honors Science Curriculum
... Evidence from geology, fossils, comparative anatomy, vestigial structures, developmental and molecular biology support the theory of evolution. The fossil record shows a pattern of increasing diversity and large-scale changes through time. ...
... Evidence from geology, fossils, comparative anatomy, vestigial structures, developmental and molecular biology support the theory of evolution. The fossil record shows a pattern of increasing diversity and large-scale changes through time. ...
The structure and development of evolutionary theory from a
... The most fundamental objection to inductivism has come to be known as ‘the problem of induction’. A notable proponent of this objection was David Hume, but it goes back to at least the 2 nd century philosopher Sextus Empiricus. The problem of induction concerns the difficulty of moving from a collec ...
... The most fundamental objection to inductivism has come to be known as ‘the problem of induction’. A notable proponent of this objection was David Hume, but it goes back to at least the 2 nd century philosopher Sextus Empiricus. The problem of induction concerns the difficulty of moving from a collec ...
Evolution
Evolution is change in the heritable traits of biological populations over successive generations. Evolutionary processes give rise to diversity at every level of biological organisation, including the levels of species, individual organisms, and molecules.All of life on earth shares a common ancestor known as the last universal ancestor, which lived approximately 3.5–3.8 billion years ago. Repeated formation of new species (speciation), change within species (anagenesis), and loss of species (extinction) throughout the evolutionary history of life on Earth are demonstrated by shared sets of morphological and biochemical traits, including shared DNA sequences. These shared traits are more similar among species that share a more recent common ancestor, and can be used to reconstruct a biological ""tree of life"" based on evolutionary relationships (phylogenetics), using both existing species and fossils. The fossil record includes a progression from early biogenic graphite, to microbial mat fossils, to fossilized multicellular organisms. Existing patterns of biodiversity have been shaped both by speciation and by extinction. More than 99 percent of all species that ever lived on Earth are estimated to be extinct. Estimates of Earth's current species range from 10 to 14 million, of which about 1.2 million have been documented.In the mid-19th century, Charles Darwin formulated the scientific theory of evolution by natural selection, published in his book On the Origin of Species (1859). Evolution by natural selection is a process demonstrated by the observation that more offspring are produced than can possibly survive, along with three facts about populations: 1) traits vary among individuals with respect to morphology, physiology, and behaviour (phenotypic variation), 2) different traits confer different rates of survival and reproduction (differential fitness), and 3) traits can be passed from generation to generation (heritability of fitness). Thus, in successive generations members of a population are replaced by progeny of parents better adapted to survive and reproduce in the biophysical environment in which natural selection takes place. This teleonomy is the quality whereby the process of natural selection creates and preserves traits that are seemingly fitted for the functional roles they perform. Natural selection is the only known cause of adaptation but not the only known cause of evolution. Other, nonadaptive causes of microevolution include mutation and genetic drift.In the early 20th century the modern evolutionary synthesis integrated classical genetics with Darwin's theory of evolution by natural selection through the discipline of population genetics. The importance of natural selection as a cause of evolution was accepted into other branches of biology. Moreover, previously held notions about evolution, such as orthogenesis, evolutionism, and other beliefs about innate ""progress"" within the largest-scale trends in evolution, became obsolete scientific theories. Scientists continue to study various aspects of evolutionary biology by forming and testing hypotheses, constructing mathematical models of theoretical biology and biological theories, using observational data, and performing experiments in both the field and the laboratory. Evolution is a cornerstone of modern science, accepted as one of the most reliably established of all facts and theories of science, based on evidence not just from the biological sciences but also from anthropology, psychology, astrophysics, chemistry, geology, physics, mathematics, and other scientific disciplines, as well as behavioral and social sciences. Understanding of evolution has made significant contributions to humanity, including the prevention and treatment of human disease, new agricultural products, industrial innovations, a subfield of computer science, and rapid advances in life sciences. Discoveries in evolutionary biology have made a significant impact not just in the traditional branches of biology but also in other academic disciplines (e.g., biological anthropology and evolutionary psychology) and in society at large.