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From genetics…to evolution
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What is the Theory of evolution?
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Darwin’s Theory of Evolution
• "the single best idea anybody ever had” (Daniel Dennet, Philosopher)
• “a big idea, arguably the most powerful idea ever “ (Richard Dawkins, Philosopher)
• “Its publication (The Origin if Species) changed the world”
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Evolution
Synonyms:• Charles Darwin used ‘Descent with modification’• ‘Survival of the fittest’• ‘Theory of Natural selection’
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Richard Dawkins’ Theory of Evolution
‘Given sufficient time, the non –random survival of hereditary entities (which will occasionally mis-copy) will generate complexity, diversity, beauty and an illusion of design so persuasive that it is almost impossible to distinguish from deliberate
intelligent design’
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How similar are we?
• How different are we?
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Charles Darwin…
An introduction to Charles Darwin….
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Opponents to The Theory of Evolution: The Blind Watchmaker
oh yeah, it's David Attenborough again...
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The Mechanism of Evolution: Natural Selection
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How does natural selection work?
1. Too many offspring (‘over-production’)2. Genetic variation (sex and mutation)3. Competition: the Struggle for survival4. Differential survival and reproduction
(‘survival of the genetically fittest’)5.Advantageous characteristics passed on to
offspring6. GRADUAL change over many generations
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Too many offspring
Results in competition for available resources – food, shelter, mates, water, sunlight
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How are we different?
Discontinuous variationPhenotype has distinct categoriesThere are no ‘in- betweens’• Blood types• Genetic diseases• ‘Traits’: tongue rolling,
hitch-hikers thumb
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How are we different?
Continuous variation
The variation in phenotype follows a
‘normal-type’ distribution, with most individuals falling in
the ‘middle of the range’
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Skin colour is another example of continuous variation
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What makes us different?Genetic variation
1. Meiosis2. Random
fertilisation3. MutationAffects BOTH
continuous AND discontinuous
variation
Environmental effects on genotype
Tends to affect continuous variation
alone
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Environmental effects on phenotype
Sequoia sempervirens tree
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Meiosis and genetic variation
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Mutation
• The basis of genetics• ‘ the fuel for
evolution’ • ‘the destroyer and
creator of life’• ‘Thanks to
mutation, we’re not all still in the primordial soup’
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Gene mutation
• Definition: A change in a gene or a chromosome
• ‘COPYING ERRORS’ OF DNA• Mutations are the source of brand-new characteristics in the
gene pool• They are the final source of all genetic variation• Mutations can occur WITHIN a chromosome• Another type of mutation affects whole chromosomes (non-
disjunction)• How mutation works
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Causes of mutation (2)
• Radiation• Chemicals• Viruses• Diet• Stress• Lifestyle• ?Gamma radiati
on?....
‘Hiroshima – the most
cynical Biology experiment of all
time’
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Evolution in response to environmental change
1. Peppered moths in Great Britain2. Antibiotic resistance in
tuberculosis3. Sickle Cell anaemia
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1. Peppered Moths in the UK
Peppered moth simulation
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2. Antibiotic resistance in bacteria
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3. Sickle Cell anaemia
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Natural selection does not always cause change
• Change will only occur when there is environmental change, or when a brand new ‘advantageous’ mutation arises
• Most of the time, natural selection keeps populations stable over the generations: and is considered as ‘stabilising selection’
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Evidence for Evolution
• 1. The Fossil Record• 2. Artifical Selection – breeding of plants and
domestic animals• 3. Geographical Distribution• 4. Homologous Structures
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Using our genome to understand human evolution
By sequencing and databasing genes, we can see similarities and differences between species• The closer the genome match, the
closer their evolutionary history• Human Chromosome 2 came
from fusion of two great ape chromosomes
• Karl Miller on human evolution• The time-tree of evolution
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Evidence for Evolution 1: The Fossil Record
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The Fossil Record
• Palaeontologists uncover fossilised remains in sedimentary rock deposits and use the information to create timelines
• Organic matter trapped in sand/ silt/fossils
• Compressed over time• Dated by isotopic carbon
(50,000 years), potassium40 (1.28 Billion years), 238 Uranium
• Oldest fossils are at the bottom, youngest at the top
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Fossil Evidence for Evolution
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/evolution/sex/mating/index.html
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Evidence for Evolution 2: Homologous structures
• Homologous traits have similar embryological origins and development
• Indicative of common acnestry: what Darwin called ‘Unity of Type’
• Indicative of adaptive radiation
• Pentadactyl limb• Human appendix• Whale pelvic and thigh bone
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Homologous structures: Pentadactyl Limb
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Homologous structures: Whale Pelvic bone
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Homologous structures: Human appendix
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Evidence for evolution 3: Artificial Selection
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Evidence for evolution: Artificial selection
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Evidence for evolution: Geographical Distribution
• Before humans arrived, Australia had > 100 types of marsupials, but no placental mammals
• Hawai’I and New Zealand had unique biotic environments – plants, insects, birds but no placental mammals
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Evidence for Evolution: Observable Changes
• Development of new species is RAPID in species with a short reproductive cycle: bacteria, viruses, parasites, moths etc etc etc