Software for Evolutionary Analysis © 2002 Jon C
... evolution by natural selection works as follows: If a population contains variation, and if the variation is at least partly heritable, and if some variants survive to reproduce at higher rates than others, then the population will evolve. That is, the composition of the population will change acros ...
... evolution by natural selection works as follows: If a population contains variation, and if the variation is at least partly heritable, and if some variants survive to reproduce at higher rates than others, then the population will evolve. That is, the composition of the population will change acros ...
descent with modification
... 4. What is theoretical about the Darwinian view of life? • Arguments by individuals dismissing the Darwinian view as “just a theory” suffer from two flaws. • First, it fails to separate Darwin’s two claims: that modern species evolved from ancestral forms and that natural selection is the main mech ...
... 4. What is theoretical about the Darwinian view of life? • Arguments by individuals dismissing the Darwinian view as “just a theory” suffer from two flaws. • First, it fails to separate Darwin’s two claims: that modern species evolved from ancestral forms and that natural selection is the main mech ...
Darwinian Enchantment
... development of Darwin’s conception runs as follows. Darwin had already been aware that the breeder’s “picking” could transform the structure of animals and plants, but initially he had no way of conceiving how such a process might occur in nature. 16 Malthus provided the key notion of population pre ...
... development of Darwin’s conception runs as follows. Darwin had already been aware that the breeder’s “picking” could transform the structure of animals and plants, but initially he had no way of conceiving how such a process might occur in nature. 16 Malthus provided the key notion of population pre ...
Evolution - Your Planet Earth
... environmental pressure. It weeds out those bacteria with low resistance and only those with high resistance survive to reproduce. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Antibiotic_resistance.svg en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Staphylococcus_aureus%2C_50%2C000x%2C_USDA%2C_ARS%2C_EMU.jpg ...
... environmental pressure. It weeds out those bacteria with low resistance and only those with high resistance survive to reproduce. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Antibiotic_resistance.svg en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Staphylococcus_aureus%2C_50%2C000x%2C_USDA%2C_ARS%2C_EMU.jpg ...
individual variation in mammals
... how characters vary among individuals, but also how individual characteristics change over time (e.g., with age or season). Hence, besides differences among individuals within a population, we consider individual variation to include intra-individual variation as well. Why do we think the study of i ...
... how characters vary among individuals, but also how individual characteristics change over time (e.g., with age or season). Hence, besides differences among individuals within a population, we consider individual variation to include intra-individual variation as well. Why do we think the study of i ...
Density cycles and an offspring quantity and quality game driven by
... In contrast, yellow females laying large eggs had more progeny that survived to maturity than those laying small eggs. Throat colour was heritable between dams and daughters (h2 0:48, F 1;116 6:92, P 0:001). Dam's throat colour was also genetically correlated with daughter's clutch size (Gt;s ...
... In contrast, yellow females laying large eggs had more progeny that survived to maturity than those laying small eggs. Throat colour was heritable between dams and daughters (h2 0:48, F 1;116 6:92, P 0:001). Dam's throat colour was also genetically correlated with daughter's clutch size (Gt;s ...
A View of Life
... of human beings. – Proposed death and famine were inevitable due to rapid population growth. Each generation has the same reproductive potential as the previous generation. Constant struggle for existence. ...
... of human beings. – Proposed death and famine were inevitable due to rapid population growth. Each generation has the same reproductive potential as the previous generation. Constant struggle for existence. ...
Artificial selection shifts flowering phenology and other correlated
... of the shared genetic basis of traits is important because while greater additive genetic variation and heritability enhance the potential for evolutionary response, genetic correlations may either facilitate or hinder evolutionary change depending upon whether correlated responses also increase fit ...
... of the shared genetic basis of traits is important because while greater additive genetic variation and heritability enhance the potential for evolutionary response, genetic correlations may either facilitate or hinder evolutionary change depending upon whether correlated responses also increase fit ...
Evolutionary Theory and the Ultimate–Proximate
... when interacting individuals are more (or less) likely to share genes than expected by chance, such as when interactions take place between relatives who share genes from a common ancestor. In this case, we must allow for the fact that a gene can also influence its transmission to the next generatio ...
... when interacting individuals are more (or less) likely to share genes than expected by chance, such as when interactions take place between relatives who share genes from a common ancestor. In this case, we must allow for the fact that a gene can also influence its transmission to the next generatio ...
Demographic history and climatic adaptation in ecological
... confounding effects of demographic histories, several approaches should be used in complementary ways to ascertain the targeted genes (e.g. Wright & Gaut, 2005). In detecting recent selection, a compound site frequency spectrum (SFS) test, DHEW has been proved to be relatively insensitive to demogra ...
... confounding effects of demographic histories, several approaches should be used in complementary ways to ascertain the targeted genes (e.g. Wright & Gaut, 2005). In detecting recent selection, a compound site frequency spectrum (SFS) test, DHEW has been proved to be relatively insensitive to demogra ...
Evolution - Cobb Learning
... Individuals in a population have variations. Variations are inherited. Organisms with variations best suited to the environment will survive and reproduce. ...
... Individuals in a population have variations. Variations are inherited. Organisms with variations best suited to the environment will survive and reproduce. ...
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... explanations that are clearer and more complete than simple lecture or text information. ...
... explanations that are clearer and more complete than simple lecture or text information. ...
Canis lupus
... Discovery (5): Survival of the Fittest • In his Origin of Species, published in 1859, Darwin proposed how one species might give rise to another. ...
... Discovery (5): Survival of the Fittest • In his Origin of Species, published in 1859, Darwin proposed how one species might give rise to another. ...
Natural Selection in Cepaea
... 12345 and to 00300 which itself is dominant to 12345. It is highly probable, although not proved, that 00300 is not an allelomorph of 12345. LANG(1912) for C. nemoralis and BOETTCER (1950a) for C. hortensis have suggested dominance relations for 00345 and 00045, but do not give the necessary data. T ...
... 12345 and to 00300 which itself is dominant to 12345. It is highly probable, although not proved, that 00300 is not an allelomorph of 12345. LANG(1912) for C. nemoralis and BOETTCER (1950a) for C. hortensis have suggested dominance relations for 00345 and 00045, but do not give the necessary data. T ...
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... • Antibiotic resistance is the result of natural selection. • When a patient takes a course of antibiotics, a few naturally resistant bacteria may survive the treatment. These reproduce. Eventually, strains of bacteria exist that cannot be controlled by the antibiotic. • All antibiotic use contribut ...
... • Antibiotic resistance is the result of natural selection. • When a patient takes a course of antibiotics, a few naturally resistant bacteria may survive the treatment. These reproduce. Eventually, strains of bacteria exist that cannot be controlled by the antibiotic. • All antibiotic use contribut ...
Evolution: Constant Change and Common Threads Lecture One
... So that was the plan, yes, the clergy. That's where Darwin was headed. But fate intervened and Darwin while he was preparing to study divinity was unexpectedly offered the chance to voyage as a ship's naturalist with the British navy. Now being only 22, financially dependent, fresh out of college, ...
... So that was the plan, yes, the clergy. That's where Darwin was headed. But fate intervened and Darwin while he was preparing to study divinity was unexpectedly offered the chance to voyage as a ship's naturalist with the British navy. Now being only 22, financially dependent, fresh out of college, ...
The Evolution of Darwinism: Selection, Adaptation, and Progress in
... Let me lay my cards on the table. If I were to give an award for the single best idea anyone has ever had, I’d give it to Darwin, ahead of Newton and Einstein and everyone else. (Dennett 1995, p. 21) ...
... Let me lay my cards on the table. If I were to give an award for the single best idea anyone has ever had, I’d give it to Darwin, ahead of Newton and Einstein and everyone else. (Dennett 1995, p. 21) ...
CHARLES DARWIN - Big History Project
... Darwin examined the birds’ beaks. He noticed that each bird’s beak had adapted to the type of seeds available on its island. The need for food had caused the shape of each beak to develop over time. Darwin wrote reports about his trip. Soon he was elected to the famous Royal Society of London. It is ...
... Darwin examined the birds’ beaks. He noticed that each bird’s beak had adapted to the type of seeds available on its island. The need for food had caused the shape of each beak to develop over time. Darwin wrote reports about his trip. Soon he was elected to the famous Royal Society of London. It is ...
Untitled - The Library-University of California, Berkeley
... with A monograph on the Fossil Balanidae and Verrucidae of Great Britain. ...
... with A monograph on the Fossil Balanidae and Verrucidae of Great Britain. ...
Beak of Finches Questions
... B) The medium ground finch would face increased competition for seeds. C) The medium ground finch would become a parasite of the introduced species. D) The finches would not compete, since they both eat seeds. 11) Based on the information given, which factors most likely had a role in the developmen ...
... B) The medium ground finch would face increased competition for seeds. C) The medium ground finch would become a parasite of the introduced species. D) The finches would not compete, since they both eat seeds. 11) Based on the information given, which factors most likely had a role in the developmen ...
Darwin`s Theory of Evolution The Puzzle of Life`s Diversity Chapter
... was one of first scientists to recognize living things changed over time and that _______________ all species were descended ________ from other species. ...
... was one of first scientists to recognize living things changed over time and that _______________ all species were descended ________ from other species. ...
The evolution of self-incompatibility when mates are
... endemic [36]. In some of these populations, the majority of individuals produced little or no fruit, suggesting the nearly complete loss of allelic diversity at the S-locus. The evolution of PSC Quantitative variation in the strength of the SI response is a phenomenon that has long been recognized i ...
... endemic [36]. In some of these populations, the majority of individuals produced little or no fruit, suggesting the nearly complete loss of allelic diversity at the S-locus. The evolution of PSC Quantitative variation in the strength of the SI response is a phenomenon that has long been recognized i ...
The evolution of animal genitalia: distinguishing between
... stimulate/titillate multiply-mated females to selectively use sperm from males with superior stimulatory capabilities (i.e. genitalic morphology), over that of others, to fertilize their eggs. While non-random fertilization success among males has been documented in some species (Watson, 1991a, b; L ...
... stimulate/titillate multiply-mated females to selectively use sperm from males with superior stimulatory capabilities (i.e. genitalic morphology), over that of others, to fertilize their eggs. While non-random fertilization success among males has been documented in some species (Watson, 1991a, b; L ...
Biology Ch15.ppt
... ▪ Darwin hypothesized that new species could appear gradually through small changes in ancestral species. ▪ Darwin inferred that if humans could change species by artificial selection, then perhaps the same process could work in nature. ...
... ▪ Darwin hypothesized that new species could appear gradually through small changes in ancestral species. ▪ Darwin inferred that if humans could change species by artificial selection, then perhaps the same process could work in nature. ...
Determining selection across heterogeneous
... Mizera and Meszéna 2003; Troost et al. 2005). In particular, general mathematical expressions describing directional as well as stabilizing or disruptive selection have not yet been developed for reaction-diffusion models in continuous space. This is unfortunate, as some questions, such as studying ...
... Mizera and Meszéna 2003; Troost et al. 2005). In particular, general mathematical expressions describing directional as well as stabilizing or disruptive selection have not yet been developed for reaction-diffusion models in continuous space. This is unfortunate, as some questions, such as studying ...
Natural selection
Natural selection is the differential survival and reproduction of individuals due to differences in phenotype; it is a key mechanism of evolution. The term ""natural selection"" was popularised by Charles Darwin, who intended it to be compared with artificial selection, now more commonly referred to as selective breeding.Variation exists within all populations of organisms. This occurs partly because random mutations arise in the genome of an individual organism, and these mutations can be passed to offspring. Throughout the individuals’ lives, their genomes interact with their environments to cause variations in traits. (The environment of a genome includes the molecular biology in the cell, other cells, other individuals, populations, species, as well as the abiotic environment.) Individuals with certain variants of the trait may survive and reproduce more than individuals with other, less successful, variants. Therefore, the population evolves. Factors that affect reproductive success are also important, an issue that Darwin developed in his ideas on sexual selection, which was redefined as being included in natural selection in the 1930s when biologists considered it not to be very important, and fecundity selection, for example.Natural selection acts on the phenotype, or the observable characteristics of an organism, but the genetic (heritable) basis of any phenotype that gives a reproductive advantage may become more common in a population (see allele frequency). Over time, this process can result in populations that specialise for particular ecological niches (microevolution) and may eventually result in the emergence of new species (macroevolution). In other words, natural selection is an important process (though not the only process) by which evolution takes place within a population of organisms. Natural selection can be contrasted with artificial selection, in which humans intentionally choose specific traits (although they may not always get what they want). In natural selection there is no intentional choice. In other words, artificial selection is teleological and natural selection is not teleological.Natural selection is one of the cornerstones of modern biology. The concept was published by Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace in a joint presentation of papers in 1858, and set out in Darwin's influential 1859 book On the Origin of Species, in which natural selection was described as analogous to artificial selection, a process by which animals and plants with traits considered desirable by human breeders are systematically favoured for reproduction. The concept of natural selection was originally developed in the absence of a valid theory of heredity; at the time of Darwin's writing, nothing was known of modern genetics. The union of traditional Darwinian evolution with subsequent discoveries in classical and molecular genetics is termed the modern evolutionary synthesis. Natural selection remains the primary explanation for adaptive evolution.