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Evidence of Evolution
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Voyage of the Beagle• Charles Darwin’s observations on a voyage
around the world led to new ideas about species
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Voyage of the Beagle
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Darwin, Wallace, and Natural Selection
• In 1858, Charles Darwin and Alfred Wallace independently proposed a new theory, that natural selection can bring about evolution
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Variations in Traits• Darwin observed that variations in traits
influence an individual’s ability to secure resources – to survive and reproduce
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Theory of Natural Selection• Natural selection
– The differential in survival and reproduction among individuals of a population that vary in details of their shared traits
– Can lead to increased fitness
• Fitness– An individual’s adaptation to an environment,
measured by its relative genetic contribution to future generations
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Fossil Evidence
• Fossils – Physical evidence of life in the distant past
• Found in stacked layers of sedimentary rock– Younger fossils in more recently deposited layers– Older fossils underneath, in older layers
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Stratification
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Fossilization
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Interpreting the Fossil Record
• The fossil record is incomplete
• Favors species with hard parts, dense populations with wide distribution, and that persisted a long time
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Plate Tectonics Theory
• Movements of Earth’s tectonic plates rafted land masses to new positions
• Pangea: First ancient supercontinent– Gondwana (later southern supercontinent)
• Movements had profound impacts on the directions of life’s evolution
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Biogeographical Evidence
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Morphological Divergence
• Homologous structures: Similar body parts that became modified differently in different lineages
• Evidence of descent from a common ancestor
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Comparative Morphological Evidence
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Homologous Structures
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Analogous Structures
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DNA, RNA, and Proteins
• Comparisons of DNA, RNA, and proteins reveal and clarify evolutionary relationships
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Populations Evolve
• Population– Individuals of the same species in the same area– Generally the same number and kinds of genes for the
same traits
• Gene pool– All the genes of a population
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Variation in Alleles
• Individuals who inherit different combinations of alleles vary in details of one or more traits
• Mutations are the original source of new alleles– Lethal mutations result in death– Neutral mutations neither help nor hurt
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Phenotypic Variation in Populations
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Microevolution
• Changes in allele frequencies of a population– Mutation– Natural selection– Genetic drift– Gene flow
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Natural Selection
• Natural selection– Differential survival and reproduction among
individuals of a population that show variations in details of their shared traits (alleles)
• Allele frequencies– Maintained by stabilizing selection– Shifted by directional or disruptive selection
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Modes of Natural Selection
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Peppered Moth
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Pocket Mice
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Stabilizing Selection: Birth Weight
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Sexual Selection
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Evolution of sickle cell anemia
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Genetic Drift
• Genetic drift– Random change in a population’s allele frequencies
over time, due to chance– Can lead to loss of genetic diversity
• Most pronounced in small or inbred populations– Bottleneck: Drastic reduction in population– Founder effect: Small founding group
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Gene Flow
• Gene flow – Movement of alleles into or out of a population by
immigration or emigration – Helps keep populations of same species similar
• Counters processes that cause populations to diverge (mutation, natural selection, genetic drift)
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Gene Flow Between Oak Populations
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Reproductive Isolation
• Individuals of a sexually reproducing species can produce fertile offspring, but are reproductively isolated
• Reproductive isolating mechanisms evolve when gene flow between populations stops
• Divergences may lead to new species
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Mechanical Isolation
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Behavioral Isolation
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Allopatric Speciation
• A geographic barrier stops gene flow between two or more populations of a species– Example: Isolated continents or archipelagos
• Genetic divergence and reproductive isolation give rise to new species
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Allopatric Speciations
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An Isolated Archipelago
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Patterns of Macroevolution
• Coevolution – Close ecological interactions cause two species to act
as agents of selection upon one another
• Extinction– Irrevocable loss of species– Mass extinctions and recoveries have occurred several
times in the history of life– Most species that ever existed are now extinct
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Coevolution
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Adaptation to What?• Evolutionary adaptation
– Heritable traits that improve an individual’s chance of surviving and reproducing (under conditions that prevailed when genes evolved)