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THE THEORY OF EVOLUTION
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CHARLES DARWIN
EVIDENCE FOR EVOLUTION
MECHANISMS FOR EVOLUTION
NATURAL SELECTION
SPECIATION
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CHARLES DARWIN – 1809-1882
• ENGLISH
• TRAVELED AROUND THE WORLD ON THE
BEAGLE – FAMOUS IN THE GALAPAGOS
ISLANDS
• OBSERVED MANY SPECIES AND FOSSILS
• WHY DID SOME SPECIES SURVIVE WHILE
OTHERS BECAME EXTINCT?
• NATURAL SELECTION
Life Sciences-HHMI Outreach. Copyright 2006 President and Fellows of Harvard College.
http://evolution.berkeley.edu/evolibrary/home.php
http://evolution.berkeley.edu/evolibrary/home.php
www.darwinday.org/englishL/life/beagle.html
www.darwinday.org/englishL/life/beagle.ht
Used by permission of Darwin Day
Celebration (at DarwinDay.org), 2006
I have called this principle, by which
each slight variation, if useful, is preserved,
by the term Natural Selection.
—Charles Darwin from "The Origin of Species"
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EVIDENCE OF EVOLUTION
• STRUCTURAL ADAPTATIONS
– MIMICRY
– CAMOUFLAGE
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http://science.howstuffworks.com/animal-camouflage2.htm
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EVIDENCE OF EVOLUTION
• STRUCTURAL ADAPTATIONS
– MIMICRY
– CAMOUFLAGE
– MILLIONS OF YEARS
• PHYSIOLOGICAL ADAPTATIONS
– CHANGE IN A METABOLIC PROCESS
– WHAT DO YOU HEAR ABOUT IN THE NEWS
ABOUT SOME BACTERIA?
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WHAT OTHER INDUSTRIES WOULD BE WORRIED ABOUT
RESISTANCE?
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OTHER EVIDENCE OF EVOLUTION
• FOSSILS
• ANATOMY
– HOMOLOGOUS STRUCTURES
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OTHER EVIDENCE OF EVOLUTION
• FOSSILS
• ANATOMY
– HOMOLOGOUS STRUCTURES
– ANALOGOUS STRUCTURES
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OTHER EVIDENCE OF EVOLUTION
• FOSSILS
• ANATOMY
– HOMOLOGOUS STRUCTURES
– ANALOGOUS STRUCTURES
– VESTIGIAL STRUCTURE
– EMBRYOS
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WHAT IS ANOTHER EXAMPLE
OF VESTIGIAL STRUCTURES?
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OTHER EVIDENCE OF EVOLUTION
• FOSSILS
• ANATOMY
– HOMOLOGOUS STRUCTURES
– ANALOGOUS STRUCTURES
– VESTIGIAL STRUCTURE
– EMBRYOS
• BIOCHEMISTRY
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WHAT IS SPECIATION?
• GEOGRAPHIC ISOLATION
• REPRODUCTIVE ISOLATION
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ADAPTIVE RADIATION – AN EXAMPLE
OF DIVERGENT EVOLUTION
http://www.vanderbilt.edu/AnS/english/Clayton/Galapago_finches.gif
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