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Campbell study guide introduction to evolution

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Chapter 22 pages 428 ? 430 What is the full name of the book that Darwin published and what was the date of publication? What are the four manners in which this book focused biologists? attention on the great diversity of organisms? What are the two points that Darwin made in his book? What is natural selection? What is the result of natural selection? In what two ways did this book ?rock the house,? in other words why was it truly radical? What was the conventional paradigm (the prevailing view) of life at the time of Darwin?s publication? Plato was one of the philosophers that had great influence on western culture. What was Plato?s view of life? How about Aristotle, what was his view? Explain the philosophy that dominated biology in the 1700s.

evolution, cesarean sections

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ANNALS OF HUMAN BIOLOGY, 1978, VOL. 5, NO. 5, 487--489 Natural selection and birthweight N. BLURTON JONES Department of Growth and Development, Institute of Child Health, University of London [Received 23 March 1978; revised 6 May 1978] Summary. Mean birthweight, even before induced births became commonplace, is slightly lower than the birthweight at which peri- natal mortality is lowest. This finding, once hard to explain by natural selection, is shown to be exactly in line with predictions from natural selection theory. 1. Introduction Karn and Penrose (1952) showed that mean birthweight in man was slightly lower than the "optimum" birthweight, defined as the weight at which perinatal

natural selection

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Natural selection is one of the basic mechanisms of evolution, along with mutation, migration, and genetic drift. Darwin's grand idea of evolution by natural selection is relatively simple but often misunderstood. To find out how it works, imagine a population of beetles: There is variation in traits. For example, some beetles are green and some are brown. There is differential reproduction. Since the environment can't support unlimited population growth, not all individuals get to reproduce to their full potential. In this example, green beetles tend to get eaten by birds and survive to reproduce less often than brown beetles do. There is heredity. The surviving brown beetles have brown baby beetles because this trait has a genetic basis. End result:

Think of an animal or plant that has shown natural selection and diversity through fragmentation besides the finches described in the textbook. Describe the diversification for that species.

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The Selection in evolution means generation of new biological species, usually by the division of a single species in two or more two specis of genetical difference. The rate of change in diversity depends on the rate at which taxa originate and become extinct. The number of taxa, N, changes over time due to origination and extinction. These events are analogous births or deaths of individual organisms in a population.
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