Evolution lectures1&2 September 2013

SBC174/SBS110: Evolution (& Ecology)

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Course Outlineand Timetable

http://qmplus.qmul.ac.uk/course/view.php?id=3972

Yannick Wurm

YW

Andrea Hatlen

AH

Dave Hone

DH



http://qmplus.qmul.ac.uk/course/view.php?id=3972Semester A: Evolution




Week 1: YW – Introduction, Historical context, Neo Darwinism

Semester A: Evolution




Week 1: YW – Introduction, Historical context, Neo DarwinismWeek 2: YW – Geological Aspects, Drivers of Evolution, Levels of Evolution





Week 1: YW – Introduction, Historical context, Neo DarwinismWeek 2: YW – Geological Aspects, Drivers of Evolution, Levels of EvolutionWeek 3: YW – Fossils, DNA and Molecules





Week 1: YW – Introduction, Historical context, Neo DarwinismWeek 2: YW – Geological Aspects, Drivers of Evolution, Levels of EvolutionWeek 3: YW – Fossils, DNA and MoleculesWeek 4: YW – Human Evolution





Week 1: YW – Introduction, Historical context, Neo DarwinismWeek 2: YW – Geological Aspects, Drivers of Evolution, Levels of EvolutionWeek 3: YW – Fossils, DNA and MoleculesWeek 4: YW – Human Evolution Week 5: DH – Evolution of Sex, Sexual Selection





Week 1: YW – Introduction, Historical context, Neo DarwinismWeek 2: YW – Geological Aspects, Drivers of Evolution, Levels of EvolutionWeek 3: YW – Fossils, DNA and MoleculesWeek 4: YW – Human Evolution Week 5: DH – Evolution of Sex, Sexual SelectionWeek 6: AH – Genetic Basis of Evolution





Week 1: YW – Introduction, Historical context, Neo DarwinismWeek 2: YW – Geological Aspects, Drivers of Evolution, Levels of EvolutionWeek 3: YW – Fossils, DNA and MoleculesWeek 4: YW – Human Evolution Week 5: DH – Evolution of Sex, Sexual SelectionWeek 6: AH – Genetic Basis of Evolution Week 7: Mid semester break, no lectures.





Week 1: YW – Introduction, Historical context, Neo DarwinismWeek 2: YW – Geological Aspects, Drivers of Evolution, Levels of EvolutionWeek 3: YW – Fossils, DNA and MoleculesWeek 4: YW – Human Evolution Week 5: DH – Evolution of Sex, Sexual SelectionWeek 6: AH – Genetic Basis of Evolution Week 7: Mid semester break, no lectures.Week 8: AH – Founder Effects, Genetic Drift





Week 1: YW – Introduction, Historical context, Neo DarwinismWeek 2: YW – Geological Aspects, Drivers of Evolution, Levels of EvolutionWeek 3: YW – Fossils, DNA and MoleculesWeek 4: YW – Human Evolution Week 5: DH – Evolution of Sex, Sexual SelectionWeek 6: AH – Genetic Basis of Evolution Week 7: Mid semester break, no lectures.Week 8: AH – Founder Effects, Genetic Drift + Computer Practical (tues or thurs afternoon)





Week 1: YW – Introduction, Historical context, Neo DarwinismWeek 2: YW – Geological Aspects, Drivers of Evolution, Levels of EvolutionWeek 3: YW – Fossils, DNA and MoleculesWeek 4: YW – Human Evolution Week 5: DH – Evolution of Sex, Sexual SelectionWeek 6: AH – Genetic Basis of Evolution Week 7: Mid semester break, no lectures.Week 8: AH – Founder Effects, Genetic Drift + Computer Practical (tues or thurs afternoon) Week 9: AH – Mutation, Selection and Gene Selection


In Jean Smith’s Timetable; not yet on “SMART”




Week 1: YW – Introduction, Historical context, Neo DarwinismWeek 2: YW – Geological Aspects, Drivers of Evolution, Levels of EvolutionWeek 3: YW – Fossils, DNA and MoleculesWeek 4: YW – Human Evolution Week 5: DH – Evolution of Sex, Sexual SelectionWeek 6: AH – Genetic Basis of Evolution Week 7: Mid semester break, no lectures.Week 8: AH – Founder Effects, Genetic Drift + Computer Practical (tues or thurs afternoon) Week 9: AH – Mutation, Selection and Gene SelectionWeek 10: DH – Systematics, Speciation






Week 1: YW – Introduction, Historical context, Neo DarwinismWeek 2: YW – Geological Aspects, Drivers of Evolution, Levels of EvolutionWeek 3: YW – Fossils, DNA and MoleculesWeek 4: YW – Human Evolution Week 5: DH – Evolution of Sex, Sexual SelectionWeek 6: AH – Genetic Basis of Evolution Week 7: Mid semester break, no lectures.Week 8: AH – Founder Effects, Genetic Drift + Computer Practical (tues or thurs afternoon) Week 9: AH – Mutation, Selection and Gene SelectionWeek 10: DH – Systematics, SpeciationWeek 11: DH – Evolution of Parasites, Antibiotics






Week 1: YW – Introduction, Historical context, Neo DarwinismWeek 2: YW – Geological Aspects, Drivers of Evolution, Levels of EvolutionWeek 3: YW – Fossils, DNA and MoleculesWeek 4: YW – Human Evolution Week 5: DH – Evolution of Sex, Sexual SelectionWeek 6: AH – Genetic Basis of Evolution Week 7: Mid semester break, no lectures.Week 8: AH – Founder Effects, Genetic Drift + Computer Practical (tues or thurs afternoon) Week 9: AH – Mutation, Selection and Gene SelectionWeek 10: DH – Systematics, SpeciationWeek 11: DH – Evolution of Parasites, AntibioticsWeek 12: DH – Convergence, Revision Session








Final Grade:







20% WorkshopFinal Grade:







20% WorkshopFinal Grade:

80% Exam




Semester B: Ecology

All lectures by David Hone Week 1: Introduction, Ecosystem servicesWeek 2: Extinctions, Plants (global view)Week 3: Invertebrate Ecology, Invertebrate InvadersWeek 4: Microbes, Techniques for Analysing MicrobesWeek 5: Plankton, Techniques for Analysing PlanktonWeek 6: Ecological Systems, Productivity,Week 7: Mid semester break – no lectures.Week 8: Salt Marsh Pollution, UK HabitatsWeek 9: Woodlands, Global WarmingWeek 10: Pollinator networks, SurveysWeek 11: Ecological Solutions, QMUL researchWeek 12: Revision session

+ Workshop + Fieldcourse

Final Grade:

Semester B: Ecology

All lectures by David Hone Week 1: Introduction, Ecosystem servicesWeek 2: Extinctions, Plants (global view)Week 3: Invertebrate Ecology, Invertebrate InvadersWeek 4: Microbes, Techniques for Analysing MicrobesWeek 5: Plankton, Techniques for Analysing PlanktonWeek 6: Ecological Systems, Productivity,Week 7: Mid semester break – no lectures.Week 8: Salt Marsh Pollution, UK HabitatsWeek 9: Woodlands, Global WarmingWeek 10: Pollinator networks, SurveysWeek 11: Ecological Solutions, QMUL researchWeek 12: Revision session

+ Workshop + Fieldcourse

Final Grade: 80% Exam; 5% Workshop; 15% Fieldcourse

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SBC174/SBS110: Evolution (& Ecology)

“Nothing in Biology Makes Sense Except in the Light of Evolution”

Theodosius Dobzhansky 1973

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theodosius_Dobzhansky

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theodosius_Dobzhansky

Recommended Reading

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+Lots of stuff on youtube.

Lecture 1: Introduction and some historical perspectives

Early ideasTwo camps: Fixity of species or change?


350 B.C. Aristotle:individuals in a “Species” are identical and unchanging



1749 Buffon Histoire Naturelle encyclopedia: The earth is very old. Species change.




1785 Hutton. Geologist: Uniformitarianism: Changes in nature are gradual.




1785 Hutton. Geologist: Uniformitarianism: Changes in nature are gradual.

1798 Cuvier : Fossils show extinct species (due to catastrophe). Species don’t change.

3 Schools of evolutionary thought

1. Linnaeus:1700s

2. Lamarck: 1744—1829

3. Darwin & Wallace: 1800s

Carolus Linnaeus (1707—1778)

• Swedish

• 180 books classified nature: “revealing the order of life created by God.”: “God created, Linnaeus arranged”

• Devised the binomial naming system: Genus species

• Thought that species do not change.

3 Schools of evolutionary thought• Linneaus: each species was

separately created.

J-B. de Lamarck (1744—1829)

• Worked most of his life at the Muséum d’Histoire Naturelle (Paris)

• He promoted the idea that species change.


1. Linnaeus:1700s

2. Lamarck: 1744-1829


3 Schools of evolutionary thought• Linneaus: each species was

separately created.


• Lamarck: characteristics acquired by an individual are passed on to offspring.

• Linneaus: each species was separately created.

Giraffe necks• Lamarck: stretching giraffes

lengthened their necks to reach tree-top vegetation. This acquired characteristic is passed to offspring.

• Darwin & Wallace: giraffes with long necks out-compete those with short necks.


1. Linnaeus:1700s

2. Lamarck: 1744—1829


Thomas Malthus (1766-1834)

Published on “principle of population”:Human populations increase faster (geometrically=exponentially) than food production (increases arithmetically = linearly)

Charles Lyell (1797-1875)Geologist, strong proponent of uniformitarianism (slow gradual change)

Charles Lyell (1797-1875)

Uniformitarianism. 4 ideas:

Geologist, strong proponent of uniformitarianism (slow gradual change)


Uniformitarianism. 4 ideas: • Accepted by all scientists:




1. Natural laws are constant across space and time




1. Natural laws are constant across space and time2. Principle of parsimony: try to explain the past by

causes now in operation without inventing extra, fancy, or unknown causes, however plausible in logic, if available processes suffice.






• Debatable:






• Debatable:3. Change is slow, steady, and gradual.






• Debatable:3. Change is slow, steady, and gradual.4. Change is evenly distributed throughout space and time.


Darwin & the Voyage of the Beagle

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• Analysis -> finches derived from one ancestral species arriving from the mainland to populate and diversify across the islands (adaptive radiation).

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Charles Darwin (1809-1882)

• Darwin at about 30 years old, and three years back from his voyage aboard HMS Beagle (1831-1836)

• The Origin of Species was published several decades later in 1859 (prompted by competition from Alfred Russel Wallace).

Alfred Russel Wallace (1823-1913)

• Wallace in his thirties. (National Portrait Gallery, London.)

• In 1858 he came up with similar ideas to Darwin about the mechanism of evolutionary change

Read at the Linnean Society

Evolution by natural selection

Under optimal conditions, populations indefinitely increase in size.



Because they do not: * either not all animals reach maturity * and/or some animals breed less




Individuals within a population differ (natural variation)




Individuals within a population differ (natural variation)These differences (traits) may affect survival/reproduction




Individuals within a population differ (natural variation)These differences (traits) may affect survival/reproductionTraits are heritable: passed on from parents to offspring




Individuals within a population differ (natural variation)These differences (traits) may affect survival/reproductionTraits are heritable: passed on from parents to offspring

Advantageous traits lead to increased survival of certain lineages





• Darwin & Wallace: viewed evolution as descent with modification.



• Darwin & Wallace: giraffes with long necks have more offspring than those with short necks.



• Darwin & Wallace: giraffes with long necks have more offspring than those with short necks.

Actually: sexual selection??

(1859) "The Origin of Species"

A scheme or system of ideas or statements held as an explanation or account of a group of facts or phenomena; a hypothesis that has been confirmed or established by observation and experiment, and is propounded or accepted as accounting for the known facts.

theory |ˈTHēərē, ˈTHi(ə)rē|noun ( pl. theories )

Darwin's theory of evolution by natural selection

(Oxford English Dictionary)

Darwin's Theory of Evolution (1859)"The Origin of Species"


• There is inherited variation within species.



• There is competition for survival within species.




• Natural selection is the process whereby genetically inherited characteristics become more or less common in a population as a function of the differential reproductive success of the bearers of these characteristics.




• Natural selection is the process whereby genetically inherited characteristics become more or less common in a population as a function of the differential reproductive success of the bearers of these characteristics.

•This process occurring independently on two populations of a single species leads to the accumulation of differences between the populations - and ultimately to speciation.

• But environmental conditions change: What was advantageous yesterday may be a disadvantage today.

• And evolution also occurs by: • genetic drift• sexual selection• artificial selection (selective breeding)

Natural selection leads to adaptive change

Summary of Lecture 1

Ideas on how the diversity of life was/is produced date back to the ancient Greeks

These ideas developed considerably in the 1800s, culminating in the Theory of Evolution by Natural Selection

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Lecture 2

Darwin’s evidence for evolution

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“Neo-Darwinism” or “The Modern Synthesis”

1. The Fossil Record



2. Comparative Anatomy




3. Comparative Embryology




3. Comparative Embryology4. Vestigial Structures





5. Domestication (artificial selection)


1. The Fossil Record: Paleontology

Random order Reality: there is

sequential order to the fossil record

Lecture 5


2. Comparative Anatomy3. Comparative Embryology4. Vestigial Structures



2. Comparative anatomy

• Correspondence between parts and comparison of forelimbs among four vertebrates.

Diversity of type, unity of pattern

• Although these vertebrate species differ, the underlying pattern of the forelimb is fundamentally the same.

Homology and analogy

• Homology - vertebrate forearms: the bat wing, mouse forearm, and human arm are homologous structures as all are composed of similar bones inherited from a recent common ancestor.

Homology and analogy

• Analogy: The wings of bats, butterflies, and birds evolved independently, not from a recent common ancestor. But they have a similar function, flight, and so are analogous.

(here: convergent evolution)

Morphological series - evolution of limbs from fins

• Note homology of structures


• Embryonic retention of ancestral characteristics in vertebrates (e.g. gills and tails)




4. Vestigial Structures5. Domestication (artificial selection)


4. Vestigial features I • Whales: hips and hind limbs are reduced to small bones with no function.

• In primitive snakes, the remnants of hind limbs persist (forelimbs are absent).

Vestigial features II

• The human appendix is a vestigial structure, reduced from the caecum of primate ancestors.

Vestigial features II

• The human appendix is a vestigial structure, reduced from the caecum of primate ancestors.

• Others: muscles to move ears, “goose bumps”

Von Holdt et al. (2010) Nature 464, 898-903


Patterns and processes in evolutionary thought

Process

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Lecture 2


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“Neo-Darwinism” or “The Modern Synthesis”

“Neo-Darwinism”or

“The Modern Synthesis”


“The Modern Synthesis”The same thing... but with better

understanding of how things work.




• Darwin’s Theory of Evolution by Natural Selection




• Darwin’s Theory of Evolution by Natural Selection• Mendel’s Laws of Heredity (1866, 1900; see SBS 008)




• Darwin’s Theory of Evolution by Natural Selection• Mendel’s Laws of Heredity (1866, 1900; see SBS 008)• Cytogenetics (1902, 1904 - )




• Darwin’s Theory of Evolution by Natural Selection• Mendel’s Laws of Heredity (1866, 1900; see SBS 008)• Cytogenetics (1902, 1904 - )• Population Genetics (1908; see later lectures)




• Darwin’s Theory of Evolution by Natural Selection• Mendel’s Laws of Heredity (1866, 1900; see SBS 008)• Cytogenetics (1902, 1904 - )• Population Genetics (1908; see later lectures) • Molecular genetics (1970s- ; see SBS 633/210 and later lectures)

Gregor Mendel (1822-1984)

Worked out the basic laws of inheritance:Segregation and independent assortment

J.B.S. Haldane (1892-1964)

With Fisher and Wright, one of the founders of population genetics.

“The Causes of Evolution” (1932): first major contribution to what became the “modern evolutionary synthesis".

R.A. Fisher (1890-1962)

Invented Analysis of Variance and other stats!

Worked on the theory of population genetics

Theodosius Dobzhansky (1900-1975)

“Nothing in Biology makes sense except in the light of

evolution”.

Theodosius Dobzhansky's Genetics and the Origin of Species, published in 1937.

Ernst Mayr (1904-2005)

Worked on speciation and the definition of species.

William D. Hamilton (1936 - 2000)

Explained how natural selection acts on social behaviour (“kin selection”)

Explained weird sex ratios

relatedness * benefit > cost

John Maynard-Smith (1920-2004)

Most widely known for applying game theory

to evolutionary biology

• Dawkins summarized & popularized the kin selection arguments of W. D. Hamilton, George R. Price and John Maynard Smith

1976

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kin_selection

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kin_selection

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W._D._Hamilton

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W._D._Hamilton

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_R._Price

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_R._Price

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Maynard_Smith

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Maynard_Smith

Summary/overview of Lecture 2

EVOLUTION(“descent with modification”)

Pattern Process

• Fossil record• Dating methods

• Molecular evolution• Molecular clocks

• Mechanisms• Environmental drivers

•climate•cont. drift•extinctions etc

The Modern Synthesis

What next?• Epigenetics

• Cultural transmission

• Niche construction

“Extended Evolutionary Synthesis” ?

• Evodevo

• Comparative genomics

• Systems Biology

“Postmodern Synthesis” ?

Pastafarianism - Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster

Early ideas

Fixity of species or change?

FIGURE 12.5 Macroevolution and Microevolution

• The overall pattern of tetrapod evolution (macroevolution) can be examined in closer detail. The cross section in time through Sauropod evolution reveals the multiple species lineages of which it is composed. At the bottom, one lineage is enlarged, showing the populations comprising the species (microevolution).

FactCourse

Mechanism

Evolutionary process

• Some further thoughts:

• Evolution of higher taxa - is it different from speciation within taxa?

• e.g. natural selection, chance, species selection?

• How is morphological integration maintained (functional continuity)?

• e.g. correlated progression, developmental feedback

WP

Major drivers of evolution

Vulcanism

Continental movement

Bolide impact

Climate change?

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Consequences: Large scale migrations Speciation

Mass extinctions Adaptive radiations

Different Functions but Similar Underlying Forelimb Anatomy

• Forelimbs of bat, mole, and dugong. Each limb performs a different function: flight, digging, and swimming. All are superficially different, but all three share a common, underlying anatomical plan.

Diversity of Type, Unity of Pattern

• (a) Similarities. Parts may be similar in ancestry, function, and/or appearance. Respectively, these are defined as homology, analogy, or homoplasy. (b) Although the vertebrate species differ, the underlying pattern of the forelimb is fundamentally the same.

FIGURE 6.5 Morphological Series

• From four-toed to single-toed modern horses, this morphological series illustrates the correspondence between parts (feet, teeth, skull) and their modifications. Here, the stratigraphic position of these species is added.

Evolution of horses

• Evolution of horses

Morphological series—evolution of jaws

• Vertebrate jaws evolved from the front set of gill arches of jawless ancestors.

FIGURE 6.8 Convergence of Design

• Groups of animals often adapt to habitats that differ from those of most other members of their group. Most birds fly, but some, such as ostriches, cannot, and live exclusively on land; others, such as penguins, live much of their lives in water. Most mammals are terrestrial, but some fly (bats) and others live exclusively in water (whales, dolphins). “Flying” fishes take to the air. As species from different groups enter similar habitats, they experience similar biological demands. Convergence to similar habitats, in part, accounts for the sleek bodies and fins or flippers of tuna and dolphins, because similar functions (analogy) are served by similar parts under similar conditions. Yet tuna and dolphins come from different ancestries and

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