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Evolution by Natural Selection
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What is evolution?
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What is evolution?
• The change in the genetic makeup of a population over time (narrowly defined)
• Evolution accounts for the diversity of life on Earth
• Natural selection is the major driving mechanism of evolution
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Charles Darwin – What do you know?
HMS Beagle, 1831-1840 What did Darwin observe?
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Theory of Evolution
• Charles Darwin used evidence to develop his theory of evolution by natural selection
• Descent with modification – one of the fundamental ideas behind Darwin’s theory of evolution
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Descent with Modification
• Earth’s species are descendants of ancestral species
• Ancestors were very different from present-day species
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Galapagos Islands Observations
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Ideas About Change Over Time
James Hutton and Charles Lyell
Jean-Baptiste de Lamarck
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According to Darwin’s theory of natural selection, competition for limited
resources results in differential survival. Individuals with more favorable
phenotypes are more likely to survive and produce more offspring, thus
passing traits to subsequent generations.
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Natural Selection • “Survival of the fittest”
• Individuals best suited to their environment survive and reproduce most successfully
• Pass favorable traits (genes) onto offspring
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Evolution by Natural Selection
• Genetic Variation
• Differential Reproduction (Survival)
• Heredity
• Natural Selection
• Speciation
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Evolutionary fitness is measured by reproductive success.
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Fitness
• The number of surviving offspring left to produce the next generation
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Reproductive Success
• The passing of genes onto the next generation
• Offspring pass on the genes as well
• Many generations
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Genetic variation and mutation play roles in natural selection. A diverse
gene pool is important for the survival of a species in a changing
environment.
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Why is genetic variation within
a population important in evolution?
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Genetic Variation
• Variation increases the chance that some individuals of a population will survive in a changing environment
• Decreases risk of extinction
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Sources of Genetic Variation
Where does the genetic variation in a population originate from?
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Sources of Genetic Variation
• Spontaneous mutations
• Genetic recombination through sexual reproduction – “gene shuffling”
• Immigration of individuals
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Diverse Gene Pool
• Gene pool: all of the alleles of all of the individuals of a population
• Diverse gene pool = long term survival
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Environments can be more or less stable or fluctuating, and this affects evolutionary rate and direction; different genetic
variations can be selected in each generation.
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No Perfect Genome
• Environment is always changing, there is no “perfect” genome
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Environmental Stability and Evolution
• Rate of evolution is measured by the amount of genetic change that occurs over time
In general:
• Stable environments = evolutionary rates are slower
• Fluctuating environments = evolutionary rates are faster
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Evolution Fast Track
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Adaptive Evolution
• Environment acts on phenotypes, not genotypes
• Natural selection increases the frequency of alleles that provide reproductive advantage and lead to adaptive evolution: evolutionary changes that are adaptive to a given environment
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Three Modes of Selection
• Natural selection can occur in three ways, depending on which phenotypes are favored within a population
• Stabilizing Selection
• Directional Selection
• Disruptive Selection
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Stabilizing Selection
• Individuals with the average form of a trait have the highest fitness
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Directional Selection
• Individuals that display an extreme form of a trait have a greater fitness than individuals with an average form of a trait
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Disruptive Selection
• Individuals with either extreme variation of a trait have a greater fitness than individuals with an average form of the trait
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An adaptation is a genetic variation that is favored by selection and is manifested as a trait that provides an advantage to an organism in a
particular environment.
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Adaptations
• An adaptation is any characteristic that aids an organisms chances for survival in its environment
• Adaptations result from natural selection
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In addition to natural selection, chance and random events can
influence the evolutionary process, especially for small populations.
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Chance and Random Events
• Genetic Drift: Unpredictable change in allele frequencies of a population due to random and chance events
• Examples of genetic drift include the founder effect and bottleneck effect
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Founder Effect (Genetic Drift)
• Occurs when a few individuals become isolated from a larger population whose gene pool differs from the source population
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Founder Effect • Used to explain the low genetic diversity
observed in certain human populations
• Often preserves harmful alleles
• Examples include Amish, Ashkenazic Jews, Tristan da Cunha Islanders (progressive blindness)
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Bottleneck Effect (Genetic Drift)
• A sharp reduction in the size of a population due to environmental events or human activities
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Bottleneck Effect
• Northern Elephant Seals
• Hunted in the 1800s, population decreased to approximately 30 individuals
• 160,000 individuals today, almost all are genetically identical
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Genetic drift is a nonselective process occurring in small
populations.
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Genetic Drift
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Genetic Drift • Significant in small populations
• Causes allele frequencies to change at random
• May lead to a loss of genetic variation within populations
• May cause harmful alleles to become fixed
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Environments change and act as selective mechanism on
populations.
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Peppered Moth
• Biston betularia
• Evolution that occurred as a consequence of the Industrial Revolution
• One species, two varieties
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Peppered Moth
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Peppered Moth
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Crop Production and Global Climate Change
• Crop production is sensitive to variability in climate
• Yield of wheat has declined ~ 8-10% per 1 °C rise in mean seasonal temperature
• Flowering time determines seed number
• Episodes of hot temperatures reduce seed number
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Some phenotypic variations significantly increase or decrease fitness of the organism and the
population.
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DDT Resistance in Insects (1950s)
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Why is the sickle cell allele conserved in the population?
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Sickle Cell Anemia
• Mutation in hemoglobin gene
• Distorted red blood cells – “sickling”
• Cell sickles and destroys the malaria parasite
• Hb allele – normal allele
• Hs allele – sickle cell allele
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Heterozygote Advantage
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Human Evolution
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Skin Color and Eye Color
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Skin Color and Eye Color
• Dark skin and eye color protect against UV rays that cause skin cancer and cataracts
• At the equator, need more protection against UV rays
• Northern and southern latitudes – need UV to produce Vitamin D for bone and immune development (= lighter skin and eyes)
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Humans impact variation in other species.
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Human Impacts on Variation
• Artificial Selection
• Overuse of antibiotics
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Artificial Selection
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Reduction of genetic variation within a given population can
increase the differences between populations of the same species.
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Greater Prairie Chicken
• Prairies of Illinois were converted to farmland during the 19th century
• Caused a drastic reduction in greater prairie chickens – Why?
• Illinois chicken population lost genetic variation and experienced an increase in frequency of harmful alleles (i.e. low egg hatching rate)
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How did scientists measure the loss of genetic variation?
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