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Evolution
Evolution and the Theory of Natural Selection
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What is Evolution? The change in gene frequencies in a
population over time
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• Aristotle– species fixed and unchanging
• The Old Testament of the Bible– species were designed by God and perfect
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Charles Darwin(1809-1882)
• Born in England• Attended medical school,
HATED IT, and dropped out to become a priest
• Liked to stuff birds instead of dissect humans
• Didn’t like grave robbing for bodies
• Boarded the H.M.S. Beagle for a 5 year UNPAID journey as a naturalist
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Charles Darwin• “Descent with
modification” from an ancestral species
• The Origin of Species By Means of Natural Selection
• November 24th 1859
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The Origin of SpeciesOccurrence of EvolutionDescent with Modification all organisms related through descent from some unknown ancestral population diverse modifications (adaptations) accumulated over time
Mechanism of EvolutionNatural Selection and Adaptation Natural selection is the differential success in reproduction
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Journey of the H.M.S. Beagle
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Alfred Russel Wallace(1823-1913)
Botanist who came up with virtually the same concept of natural selection independently
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Where did Darwin and Wallace get the idea of
evolution?
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Jean Baptiste Lamarck (1744-1829)
• Lamarck claimed that evolution was driven by "use vs. disuse"
• A used structure will become larger, stronger and more important.
• A disused structure will atrophy and become VESTIGIAL.
• Evolution occurs because organisms have an innate drive to become more complex
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Theory of “Use vs. Disuse” Big, “ripped” muscles developed by
the village blacksmith with all his hammering and slinging of heavy metal objects would be expected to be passed on to his offspring.
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Theory of “Acquired Characteristics”
• Traits acquired during an organism's lifetime could be inherited by that organism's offspring.
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Georges Cuvier(1769-1832)
• Created Paleontology (The study of fossils)
• He noted that deeper layers of sedimentary rock had diversity of organisms far different from present day life found in more recent layers
• Proposed the idea of extinction based on fossils
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James Hutton(1726-1797)
• A Scottish geologist who challenged Cuvier's view in 1795 with his idea of GRADUALISM
• Proposed that large changes in the earth's surface could be caused by slow, constant processes
e.g. erosion by a river
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Charles Lyell (1797-1875)
• Earth processes had been going on constantly, and could explain the appearance of the earth.
• This theory, uniformitarianism, was a strong basis for Darwin's later theory of natural selection.
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Thomas Malthus(1766-1834)
• disease, famine, homelessness and war was the inevitable result of overpopulation: humans reproduced more quickly than their food supply could support them.
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SO WHAT IS THIS THEORY OF NATURAL SELECTION?
It can be broken down into four basic tenets, or ideas
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Theory of Natural Selection
1. Organisms are capable of producing huge numbers of offspring.
2. Those offspring are variable in appearance and function, and some of those variations are heritable.
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Theory of Natural Selection
3. Environmental resources are limited, and those varied offspring must compete for their share.
4. Survival and reproduction of the varied offspring is not random. Those individuals whose inherited characteristics make them better able to compete for resources will live longer and leave more offspring than those not as able to compete for those limited resources.
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• Natural selection is differential success in reproduction–That results from the interaction between individuals that vary in heritable traits and their environment
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Natural SelectionNatural selection
is
differential success in reproduction
Selection can only edit existing variations
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NATURAL SELECTION IN ACTION
• Camouflage(Cryptic coloration)
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• Industrial melanism
NATURAL SELECTION IN ACTION
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NATURAL SELECTION IN ACTION
• Mullerian Mimicry – Unpalatable mimics unpalatable
• Monarch or Viceroy Butterfly
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NATURAL SELECTION IN ACTION
• Batesian Mimicry – Palatable mimics unpalatable
• Coral vs. King Snakes: Red on yellow, kill a fellow, red on black won’t hurt Jack
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WHICH WOULD YOU RATHER BE STUNG BY?
What type of mimicry?
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Natural Selection in Action
• Warning Coloration (Aposematic coloration)
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NATURAL SELECTION IN ACTION
• Disruptive Coloration
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Natural Selection in Action
• Counter Shading
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Natural Selection in Action
• Eye spots
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Evolution Things to remember:
a. Individuals cannot evolve. Populations evolve.
b. Natural selection is the mechanism of evolution.
c. Evolution occurs by chance (NOT GOAL ORIENTED).
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What is speciation and who studies it?
• Speciation is the creation of a new species
• Scientists who study the processes and mechanisms that lead to such speciation events are called EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGISTS.
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Species
– Can interbreed in nature and produce viable, fertile offspring but are unable to produce viable fertile offspring with members of other populations
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Allopatric speciation. A population forms a new species while geographically isolated from its parent population.
Sympatric speciation. A smallpopulation becomes a new specieswithout geographic separation.
• Speciation can occur in two ways–Allopatric speciation–Sympatric speciation
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• A population becomes physically separated from the rest of the species by a geographical barrier that prevents interbreeding.
• Because gene flow is disrupted by this physical barrier, new species will form.
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A. harrisi A. leucurus
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Sympatric Speciation
• Two populations are geographically close to each other, but they are reproductively isolated from each other by different habitats, mating seasons, etc.
• Polyploidy– Is the presence of extra sets of chromosomes in cells
due to accidents during cell division– Has caused the evolution of some plant species
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Adaptive Radiation• Adaptive Radiation -
Evolutionary process in which one species gives rise to many new species, each of which is adapted to a new habitat and a new way of life.
• E.g. Darwin's Finches
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Reproductive Barriers
A reproductive barrier is any factor that prevents two species from producing fertile hybrids, thus contributing to reproductive isolation.
• Habitat Isolation• Temporal Isolation• Behavioral Isolation• Mechanical Isolation• Gametic Isolation
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Evidence for Evolution
• Paleontology - Study of Fossils Fossil - preserved evidence of past life a. Relative dating
b. Radioactive dating
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FOSSIL FORMATION
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Evidence for Evolution • HOMOLOGY is a characteristic shared by
two species (or other taxa) that is similar because of common ancestry.
• Artificial Selection Farmers had been conducting this controlled breeding of livestock and crops for years in order to obtain the most milk from cows or the best cobs from corn plants.
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Types of homology• morphological homology – species
placed in the same taxonomic category show anatomical similarities.
• ontogenetic homology - species placed in the same taxonomic category show developmental (embryological) similarities.
• molecular homology - species placed in the same taxonomic category show similarities in DNA and RNA.
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MORPHOLOGICAL HOMOLOGY
• Structures derived from a common ancestral structure are called:
HOMOLOGOUS STRUCTURES
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Ontogenetic Homology The human embryo has gills, a post-anal tail,
webbing between the toes & fingers, & spends its entire time floating and developing in amniotic fluid has similar salt concentration as ocean water
Evidence for Evolution
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Pharyngealpouches
Post-analtail
Chick embryo Human embryo
ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny
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MORPHOLOGICAL HOMOLOGY
• A structure that serves the same function in two taxa, but is NOT derived from a common ancestral structure is said to be an
ANALOGOUS STRUCTURE
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Sugarglider
AUSTRALIA
NORTHAMERICA
Flyingsquirrel
• Some similar mammals that have adapted to similar environments– Have evolved independently from different
ancestors
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Examples of Analogous structures:
• wings of bat, bird, and butterfly
• walking limbs of insects and vertebrates
• cranium of vertebrates and exoskeleton head of insects
• 4 chambered heart in birds & mammals
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Molecular HomologyEvidence for Evolution
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Vestigial Structures
• Have marginal, if any use to the organisms in which they occur.
• EXAMPLES:• femurs in pythonid snakes and pelvis in
cetaceans (whales)• appendix in humans • coccyx in great apes
Evidence for Evolution
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TYPES OF EVOLUTION• Divergent Evolution - Method of evolution
accounting for the presence of homologous structures. Multiple species of organisms descended from the same common ancestor at some point in the past.
• Convergent Evolution - Method of evolution accounting for the presence of analogous structures. Organisms of different species often live in similar environments, thus explaining the presence of features with similar functions.
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RATE OF EVOLUTION• Gradual evolution
• Punctuated evolution
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• Fitness– Is the contribution an individual makes to the gene pool of the next generation, relative to the contributions of other individuals
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Causes of Evolution1. Mutations - random changes in genetic material at
the level of the DNA nucleotides or entire chromosomes
2. Natural Selection - most important cause of evolution; measured in terms of an organism's fitness, which is its ability to produce surviving offspring
Modes of Selection a. Stabilizing Selection - average phenotypes have
a selective advantage over the extreme phenotypes
b. Directional Selection - phenotype at one extreme has a selective advantage over those at the other extreme
c. Disruptive Selection - both extreme phenotypes are favored over the intermediate phenotypes
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In this case, darker mice are favored because they live among darkrocks and a darker fur color conceals Them from predators.
These mice have colonized a patchy habitat made up of light and dark rocks, with the result that mice of an intermediate color are at a disadvantage.
If the environment consists of rocks of an intermediate color, both light and dark mice will be selected against.
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Modes of Selection
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Causes of Evolution3. Mating Preferences - Organisms usually do not
choose their mates at random, thus the selection process can cause evolution
4. Gene Flow - Transfer of genes between different populations of organisms. This situation leads to increased similarity between the two populations (Tends to reduce differences between populations over time)
5. Genetic Drift (Founder Effect & Bottleneck) - Situation that results in changes to a population's gene pool caused by random events, not natural selection. This situation can have drastic effects on small populations of individuals. Common on islands.
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Gene Flow
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Genetic Drift
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Founder Effect
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Bottleneck Effect
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• Macroevolution -Evolutionary change above the species level e.g. the appearance of feathers on dinosaurs• Macroevolutionary change
– Is the cumulative change during thousands of small speciation episodes
• Microevolution– Is change in the genetic makeup of a population from
generation to generation
Note the Difference
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Phylogeny• The evolutionary history of a species
or group of related species depicted as a branching tree
• Each branch represents a new species which inherits many (primitive) traits from the ancestor but also has a new (derived) trait which appear for the 1st time
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Leopard Domestic cat
Common ancestor
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• “Deeper” branch points–Represent progressively greater amounts of divergence
Leopard Domestic cat
Common ancestor
Wolf
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• Phylogeny - evolutionary history of a group of organisms
• Cladistics – The study of evolutionary relationships between groups to construct their family tree based on characters
• Derived characters – Characteristics which appear in recent parts of a lineage but NOT in its older members (Evolutionary innovation)
Evolutionary Classification
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Characters & Character Table
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The vertebrate Hox complex contains duplicates of many ofthe same genes as the single invertebrate cluster, in virtuallythe same linear order on chromosomes, and they direct the sequential development of the same body regions. Thus, scientists infer that the four clusters of the vertebrate Hox complex are homologous to the single cluster in invertebrates.
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First Hox duplication
Second Hox duplication
Vertebrates (with jaws)with four Hox clusters
Hypothetical earlyvertebrates (jawless)with two Hox clusters
Hypothetical vertebrateancestor (invertebrate)with a single Hox cluster
Most invertebrates have one cluster of homeotic genes (the Hox complex), shown here as coloredbands on a chromosome. Hox genes direct development of major body parts.
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A mutation (duplication) of the single Hox complex occurred about 520 million years ago and may have provided genetic material associated with the origin of the first vertebrates.
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In an early vertebrate, the duplicate set of genes took on entirely new roles, such as directing the development of a backbone.
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A second duplication of the Hox complex, yielding the four clusters found in most present-day vertebrates, occurred later, about 425 million years ago. This duplication, probably the result of a polyploidy event, allowed the development of even greater structuralcomplexity, such as jaws and limbs.
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• The evolution of vertebrates from invertebrate animals–Was associated with alterations in Hox genes