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Chapter 22 Descent with Modification: A Darwinian View of Life Overview: Endless Forms Most Beautiful • A new era of biology began in 1859 when Charles Darwin published The Origin of Species • The Origin of Species focused biologists’ attention on the great diversity of organisms PowerPoint® Lecture Presentations for Biology Eighth Edition Neil Campbell and Jane Reece Lectures by Chris Romero, updated by Erin Barley with contributions from Joan Sharp Copyright © 2008 Pearson Education, Inc., publishing as Pearson Benjamin Cummings Copyright © 2008 Pearson Education Inc., publishing as Pearson Benjamin Cummings Fig. 22-1 • Darwin noted that current species are descendants of ancestral species • Evolution can be defined by Darwin’s phrase descent with modification • Evolution can be viewed as both a pattern and a process Copyright © 2008 Pearson Education Inc., publishing as Pearson Benjamin Cummings Concept 22.1: The Darwinian revolution challenged traditional views of a young Earth inhabited by unchanging species • To understand why Darwin’s ideas were revolutionary, we must examine them in relation to other Western ideas about Earth and its life Fig. 22-2 Linnaeus (classification) Hutton (gradual geologic change) Lamarck (species can change) Malthus (population limits) Cuvier (fossils, extinction) Lyell (modern geology) Darwin (evolution, natural selection) Wallace (evolution, natural selection) American Revolution French Revolution U.S. Civil War 1800 1900 1750 1850 1795 Hutton proposes his theory of gradualism. 1798 Malthus publishes “Essay on the Principle of Population.” 1809 Lamarck publishes his hypothesis of evolution. 1830 Lyell publishes Principles of Geology. 1831–1836 Darwin travels around the world on HMS Beagle. 1837 Darwin begins his notebooks. 1844 Darwin writes essay on descent with modification. 1858 Wallace sends his hypothesis to Darwin. 1859 The Origin of Species is published. Copyright © 2008 Pearson Education Inc., publishing as Pearson Benjamin Cummings 1 Scala Naturae and Classification of Species • The Greek philosopher Aristotle viewed species as fixed and arranged them on a scala naturae • Carolus Linnaeus interpreted organismal adaptations as evidence that the Creator had designed each species for a specific purpose • The Old Testament holds that species were individually designed by God and therefore perfect • Linnaeus was the founder of taxonomy, the branch of biology concerned with classifying organisms Copyright © 2008 Pearson Education Inc., publishing as Pearson Benjamin Cummings Copyright © 2008 Pearson Education Inc., publishing as Pearson Benjamin Cummings Ideas About Change over Time Fig. 22-3 • The study of fossils helped to lay the groundwork for Darwin’s ideas Layers of deposited sediment • Fossils are remains or traces of organisms from the past, usually found in sedimentary rock, which appears in layers or strata Younger stratum with more recent fossils Video: Grand Canyon Older stratum with older fossils Copyright © 2008 Pearson Education Inc., publishing as Pearson Benjamin Cummings • 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 • Geologists James Hutton and Charles Lyell perceived that changes in Earth’s surface can result from slow continuous actions still operating today • Lyell’s principle of uniformitarianism states that the mechanisms of change are constant over time • This view strongly influenced Darwin’s thinking Copyright © 2008 Pearson Education Inc., publishing as Pearson Benjamin Cummings Copyright © 2008 Pearson Education Inc., publishing as Pearson Benjamin Cummings 2 Lamarck’s Hypothesis of Evolution Fig. 22-4 • Lamarck hypothesized that species evolve through use and disuse of body parts and the inheritance of acquired characteristics • The mechanisms he proposed are unsupported by evidence Copyright © 2008 Pearson Education Inc., publishing as Pearson Benjamin Cummings Concept 22.2: Descent with modification by natural selection explains the adaptations of organisms and the unity and diversity of life • As the 19th century dawned, it was generally believed that species had remained unchanged since their creation • However, a few doubts about the permanence of species were beginning to arise Copyright © 2008 Pearson Education Inc., publishing as Pearson Benjamin Cummings Darwin’s Research • As a boy and into adulthood, Charles Darwin had a consuming interest in nature • Darwin first studied medicine (unsuccessfully), and then theology at Cambridge University • After graduating, he took an unpaid position as naturalist and companion to Captain Robert FitzRoy for a 5-year around the world voyage on the Beagle Copyright © 2008 Pearson Education Inc., publishing as Pearson Benjamin Cummings The Voyage of the Beagle • During his travels on the Beagle, Darwin collected specimens of South American plants and animals • He observed adaptations of plants and animals that inhabited many diverse environments • His interest in geographic distribution of species was kindled by a stop at the Galápagos Islands near the equator west of South America • Darwin was influenced by Lyell’s Principles of Geology and thought that the earth was more than 6000 years old Copyright © 2008 Pearson Education Inc., publishing as Pearson Benjamin Cummings Copyright © 2008 Pearson Education Inc., publishing as Pearson Benjamin Cummings 3 Fig. 22-5 Fig. 22-5a GREAT BRITAIN EUROPE NORTH AMERICA ATLANTIC OCEAN The Galápagos Islands AFRICA Pinta Marchena Santiago Fernandina Genovesa Daphne Islands Pinzón Isabela Santa Santa Cruz Fe Florenza Equator SOUTH AMERICA AUSTRALIA PACIFIC OCEAN Cape of Good Hope San Cristobal Española Tasmania Cape Horn Tierra del Fuego New Zealand Darwin in 1840 Fig. 22-5b The Galápagos Islands Video: Galápagos Islands Overview Pinta Marchena Video: BlueBlue-footed Boobies Courtship Ritual Genovesa Video: Albatross Courtship Ritual Santiago Fernandina Daphne Islands Video: Galápagos Sea Lion Pinzón Isabela Video: Soaring Hawk Santa Santa Cruz Fe Florenza Video: Galápagos Tortoises San Cristobal Video: Galápagos Marine Iguana Española Copyright © 2008 Pearson Education Inc., publishing as Pearson Benjamin Cummings Darwin’s Focus on Adaptation Fig. 22-6 • In reassessing his observations, Darwin perceived 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 indeed what happened to the Galápagos finches (a) Cactus-eater (c) Seed-eater (b) Insect-eater Copyright © 2008 Pearson Education Inc., publishing as Pearson Benjamin Cummings 4 Fig. 22-6a Fig. 22-6b (a) Cactus-eater (b) Insect-eater Fig. 22-6c • In 1844, Darwin wrote an essay on the origin of species and natural selection but did not introduce his theory publicly, anticipating an uproar • In June 1858, Darwin received a manuscript from Alfred Russell Wallace, who had developed a theory of natural selection similar to Darwin’s (c) Seed-eater • Darwin quickly finished The Origin of Species and published it the next year Copyright © 2008 Pearson Education Inc., publishing as Pearson Benjamin Cummings The Origin of Species Descent with Modification • Darwin developed two main ideas: • Darwin never used the word evolution in the first edition of The Origin of Species – Descent with modification explains life’s unity and diversity – Natural selection is a cause of adaptive evolution • The phrase descent with modification summarized Darwin’s perception of the unity of life • The phrase refers to the view that all organisms are related through descent from an ancestor that lived in the remote past Copyright © 2008 Pearson Education Inc., publishing as Pearson Benjamin Cummings Copyright © 2008 Pearson Education Inc., publishing as Pearson Benjamin Cummings 5 Fig. 22-7 • In the Darwinian view, the history of life is like a tree with branches representing life’s diversity • Darwin’s theory meshed well with the hierarchy of Linnaeus Copyright © 2008 Pearson Education Inc., publishing as Pearson Benjamin Cummings Fig. 22-8 Fig. 22-8a Hyracoidea (Hyraxes) Platybelodon Sirenia (Manatees and relatives) Moeritherium Stegodon Barytherium Deinotherium Mammuthus Mammut Elephas maximus (Asia) Platybelodon Stegodon Loxodonta africana (Africa) Mammuthus Elephas maximus (Asia) Loxodonta cyclotis (Africa) Loxodonta africana (Africa) 34 24 Millions of years ago 5.5 2 24 34 Loxodonta cyclotis (Africa) 104 5.5 Years ago Millions of years ago 0 2 104 0 Years ago Artificial Selection, Natural Selection, and Adaptation • Darwin noted that humans have modified other species by selecting and breeding individuals with desired traits, a process called artificial selection Fig. 22-9 Terminal bud Lateral buds Cabbage Brussels sprouts Flower clusters Leaves • Darwin then described four observations of nature and from these drew two inferences Kale Cauliflower Stem Wild mustard Flowers and stems Broccoli Kohlrabi Copyright © 2008 Pearson Education Inc., publishing as Pearson Benjamin Cummings 6 Fig. 22-10 • Observation #1: Members of a population often vary greatly in their traits Copyright © 2008 Pearson Education Inc., publishing as Pearson Benjamin Cummings Fig. 22-11 • Observation #2: Traits are inherited from parents to offspring Spore cloud • Observation #3: All species are capable of producing more offspring than the environment can support Copyright © 2008 Pearson Education Inc., publishing as Pearson Benjamin Cummings • Observation #4: Owing to lack of food or other resources, many of these offspring do not survive • Inference #1: Individuals whose inherited traits give them a higher probability of surviving and reproducing in a given environment tend to leave more offspring than other individuals Copyright © 2008 Pearson Education Inc., publishing as Pearson Benjamin Cummings Copyright © 2008 Pearson Education Inc., publishing as Pearson Benjamin Cummings 7 • Inference #2: This unequal ability of individuals to survive and reproduce will lead to the accumulation of favorable traits in the population over generations • Darwin was influenced by Thomas Malthus who noted the potential for human population to increase faster than food supplies and other resources • If some heritable traits are advantageous, these will accumulate in the population, and this will increase the frequency of individuals with adaptations • This process explains the match between organisms and their environment Copyright © 2008 Pearson Education Inc., publishing as Pearson Benjamin Cummings Natural Selection: A Summary Copyright © 2008 Pearson Education Inc., publishing as Pearson Benjamin Cummings Fig. 22-12 (a) A flower mantid in Malaysia • Individuals with certain heritable characteristics survive and reproduce at a higher rate than other individuals • Natural selection increases the adaptation of organisms to their environment over time (b) A stick mantid in Africa • If an environment changes over time, natural selection may result in adaptation to these new conditions and may give rise to new species Video: Seahorse Camouflage Copyright © 2008 Pearson Education Inc., publishing as Pearson Benjamin Cummings Fig. 22-12a Fig. 22-12b (a) A flower mantid in Malaysia (b) A stick mantid in Africa 8 Concept 22.3: Evolution is supported by an overwhelming amount of scientific evidence • Note that individuals do not evolve; populations evolve over time • New discoveries continue to fill the gaps identified by Darwin in The Origin of Species • Natural selection can only increase or decrease heritable traits in a population • Adaptations vary with different environments Copyright © 2008 Pearson Education Inc., publishing as Pearson Benjamin Cummings Copyright © 2008 Pearson Education Inc., publishing as Pearson Benjamin Cummings Direct Observations of Evolutionary Change Predation and Coloration in Guppies : Scientific Inquiry • Two examples provide evidence for natural selection: the effect of differential predation on guppy populations and the evolution of drugresistant HIV • John Endler has studied the effects of predators on wild guppy populations • Brightly colored males are more attractive to females • However, brightly colored males are more vulnerable to predation • Guppy populations in pools with fewer predators had more brightly colored males Copyright © 2008 Pearson Education Inc., publishing as Pearson Benjamin Cummings Copyright © 2008 Pearson Education Inc., publishing as Pearson Benjamin Cummings Fig. 22-13 Fig. 22-13a EXPERIMENT Predator: Killifish; preys mainly on juvenile guppies (which do not express the color genes) Experimental transplant of guppies Pools with killifish, but no guppies prior to transplant Guppies: Adult males have brighter colors than those in “pike-cichlid pools” EXPERIMENT Predator: Killifish; preys mainly on juvenile guppies (which do not express the color genes) Predator: Pike-cichlid; preys mainly on adult guppies Guppies: Adult males are more drab in color than those in “killifish pools” Guppies: Adult males have brighter colors than those in “pike-cichlid pools” Experimental transplant of guppies Pools with killifish, but no guppies prior to transplant RESULTS 12 Number of colored spots 12 10 8 6 4 2 0 Source population Transplanted population 10 Predator: Pike-cichlid; preys mainly on adult guppies 8 6 Guppies: Adult males are more drab in color than those in “killifish pools” 4 2 0 Source population Transplanted population 9 Fig. 22-13b • Endler transferred brightly colored guppies (with few predators) to a pool with many predators RESULTS 12 Number of colored spots 12 10 8 6 4 2 0 10 8 4 2 0 Source Transplanted population population • As predicted, over time the population became less brightly colored 6 Source Transplanted population population • Endler also transferred drab colored guppies (with many predators) to a pool with few predators • As predicted, over time the population became more brightly colored Copyright © 2008 Pearson Education Inc., publishing as Pearson Benjamin Cummings The Evolution of Drug-Resistant HIV • The use of drugs to combat HIV selects for viruses resistant to these drugs • Some individual HIV viruses have a variation that allows them to produce DNA without errors • HIV uses the enzyme reverse transcriptase to make a DNA version of its own RNA genome • These viruses have a greater reproductive success and increase in number relative to the susceptible viruses • The drug 3TC is designed to interfere and cause errors in the manufacture of DNA from the virus • The population of HIV viruses has therefore developed resistance to 3TC • The ability of bacteria and viruses to evolve rapidly poses a challenge to our society Copyright © 2008 Pearson Education Inc., publishing as Pearson Benjamin Cummings Copyright © 2008 Pearson Education Inc., publishing as Pearson Benjamin Cummings Fig. 22-14 100 Patient No. 1 • Natural selection does not create new traits, but edits or selects for traits already present in the population Patient No. 2 75 • The local environment determines which traits will be selected for or selected against in any specific population 50 Patient No. 3 25 0 0 2 4 6 Weeks 8 10 12 Copyright © 2008 Pearson Education Inc., publishing as Pearson Benjamin Cummings 10 Fig. 22-15 The Fossil Record 0 2 4 • The fossil record provides evidence of the extinction of species, the origin of new groups, and changes within groups over time 4 6 4 Bristolia insolens 8 3 Bristolia bristolensis 10 12 3 14 2 Bristolia harringtoni 16 18 1 Bristolia mohavensis 3 2 Latham Shale dig site, San Bernardino County, California 1 Copyright © 2008 Pearson Education Inc., publishing as Pearson Benjamin Cummings Fig. 22-15c 12 2 Bristolia harringtoni 14 0 16 2 18 1 Bristolia mohavensis 4 2 Depth (meters) Depth (meters) Fig. 22-15b 4 6 4 Bristolia insolens 8 3 Bristolia bristolensis 10 3 1 Latham Shale dig site, San Bernardino County, California Fig. 22-16 • The Darwinian view of life predicts that evolutionary transitions should leave signs in the fossil record • Paleontologists have discovered fossils of many such transitional forms (a) Pakicetus (terrestrial) (b) Rhodocetus (predominantly aquatic) Pelvis and hind limb (c) Dorudon (fully aquatic) Pelvis and hind limb (d) Balaena (recent whale ancestor) Copyright © 2008 Pearson Education Inc., publishing as Pearson Benjamin Cummings 11 Fig. 22-16ab Fig. 22-16cd Pelvis and hind limb (c) Dorudon (fully aquatic) (a) Pakicetus (terrestrial) Pelvis and hind limb (d) Balaena (recent whale ancestor) (b) Rhodocetus (predominantly aquatic) Homology Anatomical and Molecular Homologies • Homology is similarity resulting from common ancestry • Homologous structures are anatomical resemblances that represent variations on a structural theme present in a common ancestor Copyright © 2008 Pearson Education Inc., publishing as Pearson Benjamin Cummings Copyright © 2008 Pearson Education Inc., publishing as Pearson Benjamin Cummings Fig. 22-17 • Comparative embryology reveals anatomical homologies not visible in adult organisms Humerus Radius Ulna Carpals Metacarpals Phalanges Human Cat Whale Bat Copyright © 2008 Pearson Education Inc., publishing as Pearson Benjamin Cummings 12 Fig. 22-18 Fig. 22-18a Pharyngeal pouches Pharyngeal pouches Post-anal tail Chick embryo (LM) Post-anal tail Human embryo Chick embryo (LM) Fig. 22-18b • Vestigial structures are remnants of features that served important functions in the organism’s ancestors Pharyngeal pouches • Examples of homologies at the molecular level are genes shared among organisms inherited from a common ancestor Post-anal tail Human embryo Copyright © 2008 Pearson Education Inc., publishing as Pearson Benjamin Cummings Homologies and “Tree Thinking” Fig. 22-19 Branch point (common ancestor) • The Darwinian concept of an evolutionary tree of life can explain homologies • Evolutionary trees are hypotheses about the relationships among different groups Amphibians 1 Mammals 2 Tetrapod limbs Amnion Lizards and snakes 3 4 Homologous characteristic Crocodiles 5 Ostriches 6 Feathers Birds • Evolutionary trees can be made using different types of data, for example, anatomical and DNA sequence data Lungfishes Hawks and other birds Copyright © 2008 Pearson Education Inc., publishing as Pearson Benjamin Cummings 13 Convergent Evolution Fig. 22-20 • Convergent evolution is the evolution of similar, or analogous, features in distantly related groups NORTH AMERICA Sugar glider • Analogous traits arise when groups independently adapt to similar environments in similar ways AUSTRALIA • Convergent evolution does not provide information about ancestry Flying squirrel Copyright © 2008 Pearson Education Inc., publishing as Pearson Benjamin Cummings Biogeography • Darwin’s observations of biogeography, the geographic distribution of species, formed an important part of his theory of evolution • Earth’s continents were formerly united in a single large continent called Pangaea, but have since separated by continental drift • Islands have many endemic species that are often closely related to species on the nearest mainland or island • An understanding of continent movement and modern distribution of species allows us to predict when and where different groups evolved Copyright © 2008 Pearson Education Inc., publishing as Pearson Benjamin Cummings Copyright © 2008 Pearson Education Inc., publishing as Pearson Benjamin Cummings What Is Theoretical About Darwin’s View of Life? Fig. 22-UN1 Observations • In science, a theory accounts for many observations and data and attempts to explain and integrate a great variety of phenomena • Darwin’s theory of evolution by natural selection integrates diverse areas of biological study and stimulates many new research questions Individuals in a population vary in their heritable characteristics. Organisms produce more offspring than the environment can support. Inferences Individuals that are well suited to their environment tend to leave more offspring than other individuals and • Ongoing research adds to our understanding of evolution Over time, favorable traits accumulate in the population. Copyright © 2008 Pearson Education Inc., publishing as Pearson Benjamin Cummings 14 Fig. 22-UN2 Fig. 22-UN3 You should now be able to: 1. Describe the contributions to evolutionary theory made by Linnaeus, Cuvier, Lyell, Lamarck, Malthus, and Wallace 2. Describe Lamarck’s theories, and explain why they have been rejected 5. Explain why an individual organism cannot evolve 6. Describe at least four lines of evidence for evolution by natural selection 3. Explain what Darwin meant by “descent with modification” 4. List and explain Darwin’s four observations and two inferences Copyright © 2008 Pearson Education Inc., publishing as Pearson Benjamin Cummings Copyright © 2008 Pearson Education Inc., publishing as Pearson Benjamin Cummings 15