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Chapter 22
Decent with Modification: A
Darwinian View of Life
• Charles Darwin (1859): The Origin of Species
• Focused on the diversity of organisms
• Decent with Modification: Current species are
descendants of ancestral species
• Evolution can be defined as change in genetic
composition of a population over time
Fig. 22-1
Figure 22.2
1809
Endless forms most beautiful
Lamarck publishes his
hypothesis of evolution.
1798
Malthus publishes
“Essay on the Principle
of Population.”
1812
Cuvier publishes his extensive
studies of vertebrate fossils.
1795
Hutton proposes
his principle of
gradualism.
1830
Lyell publishes
Principles of Geology.
1858
While studying species
in the Malay Archipelago,
Wallace sends Darwin
his hypothesis of natural
selection.
1790
The self decorating caterpillar illustrates three key
observations of life:
• Striking ways in which organisms are suited for life in
their environments
• The many shared characteristics (unity) of life
• The rich diversity of life
1809
183136
Charles Darwin
is born.
Darwin travels around
the world on HMS
Beagle.
1870
1859
On the Origin of
Species is published.
1844
Darwin writes his
essay on descent
with modification.
The Galápagos Islands
Scala Naturae and Classification of Species
• The Greek philosopher Aristotle viewed
species as fixed and arranged them in a
ladder called scala naturae from simple to
complex
• The Old Testament holds that species were
individually designed by God and therefore
perfect
• Carolus Linnaeus interpreted organismal
adaptations as evidence that the Creator had
designed each species for a specific purpose
• Linnaeus was the founder of taxonomy, the
branch of biology concerned with classifying
organisms
• He developed the binomial format for
naming species (for example, Homo
sapiens)
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Figure 22.3
Ideas About Change Over Time
Sedimentary rock
layers (strata)
Younger stratum
with more recent
fossils
• Paleontology, the study of fossils, was
developed by the French anatomist Georges
Cuvier (1769–1832).
• Cuvier believed in catastrophism,
speculating that each boundary between
strata represents a catastrophe, such as
flood, drought that had killed species at that
time
Older stratum
with older fossils
• The study of fossils helped to lay the
groundwork for Darwin’s ideas
• Fossils are remains or traces of organisms
from the past, usually found in
sedimentary rock, which appears in layers
or strata
• Lyell’s (1830) principle of
uniformitarianism states that the
mechanisms of changes on earth are
constant over time
• Hutton and Lyell’s views strongly
influenced Darwin’s thinking …..
1. If changes were slow and continuous, then earth
must be older than 6000 yrs
2. slow and subtle processes persisting for long
periods of time can act on living organisms,
producing substantial change over a long period of
time.
• Geologists James Hutton and Charles Lyell
(1775) suggested that changes in Earth’s
surface can result from slow continuous
actions still operating today
• James Hutton (1726–1797) proposed a theory of
gradualism, which suggested that profound
geologic changes took place through the
cumulative effect of slow but continuous
processes identical to those currently operating
- valleys were formed by rivers flowing through rocks,
and sedimentary rocks were formed from soil particles
that eroded from land and were carried by rivers to the
sea.
Hutton's Discovery
Lamarck’s Hypothesis of Evolution
• Lamarck hypothesized that species evolve
through use and disuse of body parts. Parts
used extensively become larger and stronger
and those not used deteriorate
• The inheritance of acquired characteristics:
Modifications acquired during lifetime can be
passed to its offspring
• The mechanisms he proposed were not
supported by evidence
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Fig. 22-4
Acquired traits cannot be inherited
Darwin’s Research
• A bonsai tree is
“trained” to grow as a
dwarf by pruning and
shaping. Seeds from
this tree produces
offsprings of normal
size
• Traits acquired by use
during an individual’s
life are not inherited in
the way proposed by
Lamarck
• 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
• Darwin was influenced by Lyell’s Principles of
Geology and thought that the earth was more
than 6000 years old
• 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
• What Darwin Never New
• His interest in geographic distribution of
species was kindled by a stop at the
Galápagos Islands near the equator west
of South America
• He hypothesized that species from South
America had colonized the Galápagos and
speciated on the islands
Figure 22.5
Darwin in 1840,
after his return
from the
voyage
HMS Beagle in port
Great
Britain
EUROPE
NORTH
AMERICA
ATLANTIC
OCEAN
The
Galápagos
Islands
AFRICA
PACIFIC
OCEAN
Pinta
Genovesa
Santiago
Fernandina
Isabela
0
20
40
Kilometers
Daphne
Islands
Pinzón
Santa Santa
Cruz
Fe
Florenza
Equator
SOUTH
AMERICA
Equator
Chile
PACIFIC
OCEAN
San
Cristobal
Española
Andes Mtns.
Marchena
Brazil
Malay Archipelago
PACIFIC
OCEAN
AUSTRALIA
• Darwin observed examples of adaptations –
characteristics of organisms that enhance their
survival and reproduction in specific
environments
• biologists have concluded that this is indeed
what happened to the Galápagos finches
Cape of
Argentina Good Hope
Cape Horn
Tasmania
New
Zealand
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Figure 22.6
Darwin’s Focus on Adaptation
• The finches various beaks and behavior
are adapted to the specific food available
on their home islands
(b) Insect-eater
(a) Cactus-eater
• Darwin's theory of evolution
(c) Seed-eater
• In 1844, Darwin wrote an essay on the origin of
species and natural selection as the
mechanism of decent with modification, but
did not introduce his theory publicly, anticipating
an uproar
• Natural selection is a process in which
individuals with favorable inherited traits are
more likely to survive and reproduce.
• In June 1858, Darwin received a manuscript
from Alfred Russell Wallace, who had developed
a theory of natural selection similar to Darwin’s
• Darwin quickly finished The Origin of Species
and published it the next year
The Origin of Species
• Darwin developed two main ideas:
1. Descent with modification: new species
originates from ancestral forms
– explains life’s unity and diversity
2. Natural selection is a cause of adaptive
evolution
Figure 22.8
Hyracoidea
(Hyraxes)
Sirenia
(Manatees
and relatives)
†Moeritherium
†Barytherium
†Deinotherium
†Mammut
†Platybelodon
†Stegodon
†Mammuthus
Elephas maximus
(Asia)
• In the Darwinian view, the history of life is like a
tree with branches representing life’s diversity
• The more closely related two different organisms
are the more recently they share a common
ancestor
• Darwin’s theory meshed well with the hierarchy
of Linnaeus
Loxodonta africana
(Africa)
Loxodonta cyclotis
(Africa)
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34
24
Millions of years ago
5.5 2 104 0
Years ago
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Figure 22.9
Descent with Modification
• Darwin never used the word evolution in
the first edition of The Origin of Species
• 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
Artificial Selection
• Humans have modified other species by
selecting and breeding individuals with
desired traits over many generations – a
process called artificial selection.
– greater yields of crops, meat, and milk as well
as dogs
– little resemblance to their wild ancestors
Observation #1: Members of the population often
vary greatly in their traits
Cabbage
Selection for
apical (tip) bud
Brussels
sprouts Selection for
axillary (side)
buds
Broccoli
Selection
for flowers
and stems
Selection
for stems
Selection
for leaves
Kale
Wild mustard
Kohlrabi
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
• Darwin drew two inferences from two
observations
Observation #2: All species are capable of producing
more offspring than the environment can support, and
many of these offsprings fail to survive and reproduce.
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Figure 22.UN02
Observations
• 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
• Inference #2: This unequal ability of individuals
to survive and reproduce will lead to the
accumulation of favorable traits in the population
over generations
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
Over time, favorable traits
accumulate in the population.
Natural Selection
Camouflage: an evolutionary adaptation
• 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
• 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
Direct Observations of Evolutionary
Changes
• Note that individuals do not evolve;
populations evolve over time
• Natural selection can only increase or
decrease heritable traits that vary in a
population
• Adaptations vary with different
environments
•
Two examples provide evidence for natural
selection:
1. In response to introduced plant species, and
2. the evolution of drug-resistant bacteria
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Figure 22.13b
RESULTS
Beak
10
On native species,
southern Florida
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Number of individuals
6
4
2
0
Museum-specimen average
10
On introduced species,
central Florida
8
6
4
2
0
6
7
8
9
Beak length (mm)
10
11
Natural Selection in Response to
Introduced Plant Species
• Soapberry bugs use their “beak” to feed on
seeds within fruits
• In southern Florida soapberry bugs feed on
balloon vine with larger fruit; they have longer
beaks
• In central Florida they feed on goldenrain tree
with smaller fruit; they have shorter beaks
• Correlation between fruit size and beak size has
also been observed in Louisiana, Oklahoma,
and Australia
The Evolution of Drug-Resistant Bacteria
• In all cases, beak size has evolved in
populations that feed on introduced plants
with fruits that are smaller or larger than
the native fruits
• These cases are examples of evolution by
natural selection
• In Florida this evolution in beak size
occurred in less than 35 years
• The bacterium Staphylococcus aureus is
commonly found on people
• One strain, methicillin-resistant S. aureus
(MRSA) is a dangerous pathogen
• S. aureus became resistant to penicillin in 1945,
two years after it was first widely used
• S. aureus became resistant to methicillin in
1961, two years after it was first widely used
Figure 22.14
2,750,000
1
250,000 base pairs
• Methicillin works by inhibiting a protein
used by bacteria in their cell walls
• MRSA bacteria use a different protein in
their cell walls
• When exposed to methicillin, MRSA
strains are more likely to survive and
reproduce than nonresistant S. aureus
strains
• MRSA strains are now resistant to many
antibiotics
2,500,000
Chromosome map
of S. aureus clone USA300
500,000
Key to adaptations
2,250,000
Methicillin resistance
Ability to colonize hosts
750,000
Increased disease severity
2,000,000
Increased gene exchange
(within species) and
toxin production
1,000,000
1,750,000
1,500,000
1,250,000
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Figure 22.15
Homology
• Natural selection does not create new
traits, but edits or selects for traits already
present in the population
• The local environment determines which
traits will be selected for or selected
against in any specific population
Humerus
Radius
Ulna
Carpals
Metacarpals
Phalanges
Human
Homologous Structures
Bat
Whale
Cat
Comparative embryology reveals anatomical
homologies not visible in adult organisms
Figure 22.16
• Homology is similarity resulting from
common ancestry
• Homologous structures are structures
found in different organism that have
the same skeletal structure but exhibit
different function
Pharyngeal
pouches
Post-anal
tail
Chick embryo (LM)
Human embryo
Figure 22.18
Vestigial Structures
• Vestigial structures are remnants of
features that served important functions in
the organism’s ancestors
• Examples of homologies at the molecular
level are genes shared among organisms
inherited from a common ancestor
Convergent Evolution
NORTH
AMERICA
Sugar
glider
AUSTRALIA
Flying
squirrel
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A Different Cause of Resemblance:
Convergent Evolution
• Convergent evolution is the evolution of
similar, or analogous, features in distantly
related groups
• Analogous traits arise when groups
independently adapt to similar
environments in similar ways
• Convergent evolution does not provide
information about ancestry
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
3. Explain what Darwin meant by “descent with
modification”
4. List and explain Darwin’s two observations and two
inferences
5. Explain why an individual organism cannot evolve
6. Describe homologous and vestigial structures
7. Describe convergent evolution
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