The Peppered moth: decline of a Darwinian disciple
... Coyne’s reference to the United States is interesting. The anti-Darwinian lobby has had considerable success in the USA in ensuring, through legislation and litigation, that creationism and intelligent design theories are given equal time to Darwinian evolution in biology teaching in schools. In Bri ...
... Coyne’s reference to the United States is interesting. The anti-Darwinian lobby has had considerable success in the USA in ensuring, through legislation and litigation, that creationism and intelligent design theories are given equal time to Darwinian evolution in biology teaching in schools. In Bri ...
Evolution ____ 1. Nikki and Jon were studying a type of bird called
... What information best completes the table? a. autotrophic, no, unicellular c. heterotrophic, no, unicellular b. autotrophic, yes, multicellular d. heterotrophic, yes, multicellular The fossil record supports which of the following descriptions of the evolution of life on Earth? a. Life first appeare ...
... What information best completes the table? a. autotrophic, no, unicellular c. heterotrophic, no, unicellular b. autotrophic, yes, multicellular d. heterotrophic, yes, multicellular The fossil record supports which of the following descriptions of the evolution of life on Earth? a. Life first appeare ...
Are Random Drift and Natural Selection Conceptually Distinct?
... in a population (as occurs frequently in some populations that tend to fluctuate in size, perhaps in response to fluctuating environment). When biologists speak of a bottleneck, they are generally referring to an indiscriminate sampling process; physical differences between organisms in the original ...
... in a population (as occurs frequently in some populations that tend to fluctuate in size, perhaps in response to fluctuating environment). When biologists speak of a bottleneck, they are generally referring to an indiscriminate sampling process; physical differences between organisms in the original ...
Diversity in theWeapons of Sexual Selection: Horn Evolution in
... contexts, they are used. Could selection on the utility (or the function) of horns have favored changes in form from one horn type to another? If there were differences in the utility of horns across environments, then it is possible that colonization of new or different habitats could have generate ...
... contexts, they are used. Could selection on the utility (or the function) of horns have favored changes in form from one horn type to another? If there were differences in the utility of horns across environments, then it is possible that colonization of new or different habitats could have generate ...
Instinct in the `50s: The British Reception of Konrad - Philsci
... in the history of 20th century biology more generally makes his active role in British ethology in these critical years particularly worth analyzing. It also reveals connections ...
... in the history of 20th century biology more generally makes his active role in British ethology in these critical years particularly worth analyzing. It also reveals connections ...
Some Current Topics in Plant Domestication
... of some other crops can survive in the wild long enough to confuse attempts to locate their original region of domestication. Furthermore, some domesticates, such as peanut, originated from wild progenitors with very restricted distributions, presumably because of specialised ecological requirements ...
... of some other crops can survive in the wild long enough to confuse attempts to locate their original region of domestication. Furthermore, some domesticates, such as peanut, originated from wild progenitors with very restricted distributions, presumably because of specialised ecological requirements ...
JANUARY 10-14, 2016 ASILOMAR CONFERENCE CENTER
... unique ability to unify broad biological principles by fusing theory with data, ecology with evolution, and new technological tools with long-standing open questions. We decided to hold the meeting again at the Asilomar conference center because this venue is the ideal place to hold such a meeting. ...
... unique ability to unify broad biological principles by fusing theory with data, ecology with evolution, and new technological tools with long-standing open questions. We decided to hold the meeting again at the Asilomar conference center because this venue is the ideal place to hold such a meeting. ...
The Elusive Clone – In Search of Its True Nature and Identity
... The idea to compile this book was f rst raised during an Exploratory ESF workshop in Wageningen in 2001. At that meeting, it was thought that it should provide the long-needed update on parthenogenesis and its genetic and ecological consequences, but that it should also look at the paradox of sex fr ...
... The idea to compile this book was f rst raised during an Exploratory ESF workshop in Wageningen in 2001. At that meeting, it was thought that it should provide the long-needed update on parthenogenesis and its genetic and ecological consequences, but that it should also look at the paradox of sex fr ...
the biology of speciation
... we include? For example, there is substantial disagreement about how one should measure and interpret isolation that results from differences in geographic distribution. Are genetically based differences in distribution legitimate isolating barriers, as suggested by Schemske (2000), or does the diff ...
... we include? For example, there is substantial disagreement about how one should measure and interpret isolation that results from differences in geographic distribution. Are genetically based differences in distribution legitimate isolating barriers, as suggested by Schemske (2000), or does the diff ...
Lesson Overview - mr. welling` s school page
... Organisms don’t have an inborn drive to become more perfect. Evolution does not mean that over time a species becomes “better” somehow, and evolution does not progress in a predetermined direction. In addition, traits acquired by individuals during their lifetime cannot be passed on to offspring. ...
... Organisms don’t have an inborn drive to become more perfect. Evolution does not mean that over time a species becomes “better” somehow, and evolution does not progress in a predetermined direction. In addition, traits acquired by individuals during their lifetime cannot be passed on to offspring. ...
Adaptive landscapes - BOA Bicocca Open Archive
... most fascinating cases of evolution require epistemological pluralism, mainly intended as articulation between ways of looking, each typical of some disciplinary fields (and not others); and that pluralism is not easy “anything goes”, demanding rigor and imagination, exercise and flexibility. Eldred ...
... most fascinating cases of evolution require epistemological pluralism, mainly intended as articulation between ways of looking, each typical of some disciplinary fields (and not others); and that pluralism is not easy “anything goes”, demanding rigor and imagination, exercise and flexibility. Eldred ...
Skipper/Millstein, “Evolutionary Mechanisms” - Philsci
... leave more offspring with the same or similar properties in future generations. The opposite is true for organisms that have had their survival and reproductive chances decreased by their interactions with their environments (stages III-IV). Over time, the properties that increased chances of surviv ...
... leave more offspring with the same or similar properties in future generations. The opposite is true for organisms that have had their survival and reproductive chances decreased by their interactions with their environments (stages III-IV). Over time, the properties that increased chances of surviv ...
Thinking About Evolutionary Mechanisms: Natural Selection
... leave more offspring with the same or similar properties in future generations. The opposite is true for organisms that have had their survival and reproductive chances decreased by their interactions with their environments (stages III-IV). Over time, the properties that increased chances of surviv ...
... leave more offspring with the same or similar properties in future generations. The opposite is true for organisms that have had their survival and reproductive chances decreased by their interactions with their environments (stages III-IV). Over time, the properties that increased chances of surviv ...
LAB: SQUID DISSECTION BACKGROUND INFO: The squid is one
... the color of their skin to mimic their environment and hide from predators. When in danger, squid release a cloud of dark ink from their inc sac in order to confuse their attacker and allow the squid to escape. These fast-moving carnivores catch prey with their two feeding tentacles, then hold the p ...
... the color of their skin to mimic their environment and hide from predators. When in danger, squid release a cloud of dark ink from their inc sac in order to confuse their attacker and allow the squid to escape. These fast-moving carnivores catch prey with their two feeding tentacles, then hold the p ...
Squid- Strange Beasts Squid are invertebrates in the phylum
... Squid are invertebrates in the phylum Molluska, a group that includes snails, clams and chitons. They belong to the Class Cephalopoda (which means head-foot) along with octopus, cuttlefish and nautilus. There are about 400 species of squid, all of which are marine and are found from the Arctic to An ...
... Squid are invertebrates in the phylum Molluska, a group that includes snails, clams and chitons. They belong to the Class Cephalopoda (which means head-foot) along with octopus, cuttlefish and nautilus. There are about 400 species of squid, all of which are marine and are found from the Arctic to An ...
Sympatric speciation in animals: the ugly duckling grows up
... for producing the extravagant array of diverse species on ‘the tangled bank’1. However, in the mid-1900s, the focus of SPECIATION (see Glossary) research shifted away from natural selection as the driving force and towards the role of geography in limiting gene flow and promoting GENETIC DRIFT. The ...
... for producing the extravagant array of diverse species on ‘the tangled bank’1. However, in the mid-1900s, the focus of SPECIATION (see Glossary) research shifted away from natural selection as the driving force and towards the role of geography in limiting gene flow and promoting GENETIC DRIFT. The ...
Charles Darwin and blending inheritance
... when and why Darwin made such a significant change. A number of these authors 1 in searching for a turning point in Darwin's evolutionary thought - a point at which he was forced to revert to oncerejected Lamarckian mechanisms - have fastened upon the attack made by Fleeming Jenkin in 1867. In fact, ...
... when and why Darwin made such a significant change. A number of these authors 1 in searching for a turning point in Darwin's evolutionary thought - a point at which he was forced to revert to oncerejected Lamarckian mechanisms - have fastened upon the attack made by Fleeming Jenkin in 1867. In fact, ...
Squid (Loligo pealeii) Dissection Lab Background information
... mollusks. They vary in size from 5 cm. to 6 meters. The giant squid is the largest of all invertebrates. Questions: 1. Squid belong to a group called 2. Squid range in size from 3. _________________ is a word meaning sea or related to sea. Body characteristics of the squid Squid have a body shaped l ...
... mollusks. They vary in size from 5 cm. to 6 meters. The giant squid is the largest of all invertebrates. Questions: 1. Squid belong to a group called 2. Squid range in size from 3. _________________ is a word meaning sea or related to sea. Body characteristics of the squid Squid have a body shaped l ...
Darwin after Malthus
... The final cause of transmutation was, for Darwin, the maintenance of harmony; and the principal problem he set himself was to find the means by which adaptation is preserved amidst the changes of the external world. This is the burden of the opening pages of the B notebook. Darwin was convinced from ...
... The final cause of transmutation was, for Darwin, the maintenance of harmony; and the principal problem he set himself was to find the means by which adaptation is preserved amidst the changes of the external world. This is the burden of the opening pages of the B notebook. Darwin was convinced from ...
Bully for Brontosaurus - A Website About Stephen Jay Gould`s
... Cavalli-Sforza was a pioneer in using genetic analysis (primarily blood type and protein analysis in the 1960’s, as this predated modern gene sequencing techniques) to identify relationships among different peoples. Despite its greater age, scientists did not think that linguistics could play a role ...
... Cavalli-Sforza was a pioneer in using genetic analysis (primarily blood type and protein analysis in the 1960’s, as this predated modern gene sequencing techniques) to identify relationships among different peoples. Despite its greater age, scientists did not think that linguistics could play a role ...
Standard PDF - Wiley Online Library
... that outbreed; the occurrence of inbreeding depression in offspring fitness does not mean that parents’ initial fecundities will necessarily decrease with the degree to which they inbreed (e.g., Keller 1998; Kruuk et al. 2002; Firman and Simmons 2007; Schørring and Jäger 2007; Edvardsson et al. 200 ...
... that outbreed; the occurrence of inbreeding depression in offspring fitness does not mean that parents’ initial fecundities will necessarily decrease with the degree to which they inbreed (e.g., Keller 1998; Kruuk et al. 2002; Firman and Simmons 2007; Schørring and Jäger 2007; Edvardsson et al. 200 ...
The Poetics of Science in, and around, Nabokov`s The Gift
... messages, and traces of others’ thought and art constitute a major component of Nabokov’s artistic material and method. When the novel at hand includes lengthy reflections upon the scientific and even metaphysical implications of mimicry and natural camouflage, then one feels compelled to look for t ...
... messages, and traces of others’ thought and art constitute a major component of Nabokov’s artistic material and method. When the novel at hand includes lengthy reflections upon the scientific and even metaphysical implications of mimicry and natural camouflage, then one feels compelled to look for t ...
logical and persuasive structures in
... his readers think of time in the same extended terms (natural processes occurring over millions of years rather than only several thousand) that Lyell and other geologists had already begun to condition their readers to think in: "We have almost unlimited time; no one but a practical geologist can f ...
... his readers think of time in the same extended terms (natural processes occurring over millions of years rather than only several thousand) that Lyell and other geologists had already begun to condition their readers to think in: "We have almost unlimited time; no one but a practical geologist can f ...
Meta-analysis of phenotypic selection on flowering phenology
... shared histories of species which has been shown to affect the flowering schedule of some plants (Kochmer & Handel 1986; Johnson 1993; Smith-Ramı́rez et al. 1998). Analysing data from different species (Felsenstein 1985) and studies (Hedges & Olkin 1985) with standard statistical methods can produce ...
... shared histories of species which has been shown to affect the flowering schedule of some plants (Kochmer & Handel 1986; Johnson 1993; Smith-Ramı́rez et al. 1998). Analysing data from different species (Felsenstein 1985) and studies (Hedges & Olkin 1985) with standard statistical methods can produce ...