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adaptation

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features that enhance survival/reproduction in its environment

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how have these features evolved

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via natural selection

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darwin’s dangerous idea

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idea that adaptive traits evolved via natural selection

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what was the explanation for adaptive design prior to Darwin

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supernatural omnipotent designer

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what did darwin’s idea challenge

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this supernatural designer

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why was darwin’s idea dangerous

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b/c it challenged the idea of a supernatural creator

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what were the intricacies of adaptation attributed to prior to Darwin

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goal oriented intelligent design

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is adaptive evolution via natural selection goal oriented

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no; it just happens

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how does adaptive evolution via natural selection happen

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via differential survival and reproduction of individuals that have traits that allow individuals to survive & reproduce, passing on genes to next gen

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could darwin point to specific cases where evolutionary change in populations was observed

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no; but today we can

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today where can we cite examples of adaptive evolution

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in morphology, physiology, behavior, etc.

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examples of adaptive evolution

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plants that live in arid environments have adaptations to reduce water loss

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describe adaptations in these plants in arid environments

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lack leaves, thick stems (photosynthesis); hairs that reflect light and reduce temp.

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another example of adaptation

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rapid adaptation of soapberry bugs ito introduced host plants

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how do soapberry bugs eat

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pierce seed pod to feed on the seeds

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describes the plants in Texas and Florida

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smaller in Florida, larger in Texas

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how have soapberry bugs evolved in these states

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longer beaks in Texas, shorter in Florida

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another example of adaptive evolution

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resistance of arthropod pests insecticides

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example of adaptive evolution in nature

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cryptic coloration

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what is cryptic coloration

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butterfly that mimics color of bark, green katydid that mimics color of leaf, etc. to help insect avoid predation

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another example of adaptive evolution in nature

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beach mice are lighter, allows them to match sand and hide from predators; inland form has more melanin

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why do these mice have diff color patterns

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single base pair change in coding region of mc1r gene

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what is variation in mc1r gene lead to

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effects on coloration of many organism’s plumage and pelage

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describe selection and adaptation in the world of avian parasites

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adaptation to their host’s background coloration (evolving coloration to help blend in w/ plumage of hosts)

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what kinda parasites are avian chewing lice

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permanent parasites

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what are permanent parasites

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live their entire life cycle on the host

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what is chief mechanism that most hosts use to rid themselves of parasites

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visual preening

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what is visual preening

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see parasites, then use their bill to remove them from plumage

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what kinda lice do dark birds have (color wise)

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dark lice

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what kinda coloration do lice have

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cryptic coloration

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what are feather feeding lice adapted to

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to color of their host’s plumage (adapt to host’s background color)

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how do hosts defend themselves against parasites

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by preening w/ bills

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what does cryptic coloration allow

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allows lice to hide from preening

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34
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what does host preening select for

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cryptically colored lice

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35
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what did pigeons that could preen normally have more of

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more cryptic than conspicuous lice at the end of experiment

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36
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are all traits adaptations

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no

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37
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what are some traits if not adaptive

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epiphenomena, vesitigal

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epiphenomena

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secondary products or incidental features

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examples of epiphenomena

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redness of blood in mammals (like in glass catfish, selection can act to make blood less colorful)

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examples of vestigial traits

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not used; like remnants of eyes in cave fish

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41
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what kind of trait is an incidental feature

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redness of blood

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42
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is redness of blood nonadaptive

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yeah

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example of a nonadaptive trait being co-opted and serving an adaptive function

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during aggressive displays chough shows red bulging eyes by increasing blood flow to eyes [uses nonadaptive property of red hemoglobin for adaptive function]

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44
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who introduced term exaptation

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Stephen Jay Gould and Elizabeth Vrba

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45
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what term did exaptation replace

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preadaptation

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46
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why did exaptation replace preadaptation

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b/c preadaptation implies evolution has a direction

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what is an exaptation

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trait that evolved for one purpose but co-opted for another

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another explanation for exaptation

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feature that now enhances fitness but was not built by nat selection for its current role

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49
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does an exaptation always start from an adaptation

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no; but often does

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give example of exaptation starting from an adaptation

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red eyes in chough (co-opted for a new use)

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example of exaptation in puffin

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wings; puffin uses its wing for flight and swimming, use in swimming is exaptation

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52
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what is puffin using wing to swim example of

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exaptation

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53
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what was the old function of wings

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to fly

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54
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what happened to the old function

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removed; no more flight

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55
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what is the adaptive force driving its evolution

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ability/need to swim

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56
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another avian exaptation

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origin of feathers

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57
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what reason did feathers evolve

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not rlly for flight; for display

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one of most famous fossils in evo bio

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archaeopteryx

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what was archaeopteryx an example of

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intermediate fossil/form

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when was archaeopteryx form

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2 yrs after 1859 (origin of species)

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61
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describe evolution of feathers

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evolved for display, later co-opted for flight

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62
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what is flight

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exaptation

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63
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what other purposes did feathers serve

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probably a lot; thermoregulatory, etc.

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what did archaeopteryx have

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trousers

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65
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what did ‘trousers’ support

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supported origin of feathers for function other than flight; like display

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66
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exaptation of feathers

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feathers evolved for one purpose (maybe display or physiological), ultimately led to flight

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67
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what did early literature assume feathers evolved for

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flight

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68
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why is the idea that feathers evolved for flight not true

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feathers found in theropod dinosaurs had nothing to do w/ flight

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other candidates for purpose of feather

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insulation, camo, courtship, water-proofing

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when did first feather emerge

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after a tubular feather formed in a skin follicle, and proto feather led to adaptive advantage

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how do we know feathers didn’t evolve for flight

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found in early theropod dinosaurs

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72
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did feathers evolve from scales? or from where

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no; evolved from skin

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73
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what does ontogeny do

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ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny

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74
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did feathers evolve as adaptations for flight?

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no; evolved for insulation, display, etc. then were adapted/modified for flight

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75
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what is needed for natural selection in a population

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variation in phenotype, inheritance of phenotype, fitness differences among phenotyeps

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rephrase inheritance of phenotype

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basically phenotype has a genotype

77
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reword fitness differences

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there is a phenotype/fitness correlation

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what happens within a generation if a population has these effects

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some individuals will get more resources

79
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what happens between a generation if

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some individuals have more offspring

80
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how does natural selection operate

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only by differential reproductive success among genes and heritable individual phenotypes

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adaptedness

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ability to survive and reproduce in a given environment

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what is cumulative product of nat selection

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adaptedness

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what is adaptation

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the process thru which adaptedness is acquired (genetic)

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what else is adaptation (noun)

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characteristic that enhances survival and reproduction of organisms that bear it

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what is fitness

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relative measure of reproductive success of individuals

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is it easy to measure fitness

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no; hard to follow an organism over its life, may look at it over a few years, or annually, etc.

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differential fitness

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genotype A has a fitness of 3, B has a fitness of 4 (higher fitness); genotype B grows more rapidly due to higher fitness –> more individuals in population have genotype B

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who overtakes who

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B more quickly overtakes A (more fit)

89
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what do these graphs show

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evolution; change in frequency/proportion of genotypes over time

90
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who described sexual selection

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darwin

91
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what is sexual selection

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differential mating success and thus reproductive success

92
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what does differential mating/reproductive success result from

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either competition for mates or mate choice (female choice for traits in males)

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is fitness just as simple as nat selection and fitness in sexually reproducing organisms

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no; more complicated

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what does sexual selection involve

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differential mating success on account of 2 things: competition for mates, and mate choice

95
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does natural selection always cause evolution

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no

96
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what else can cause evolution

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genetic drift

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what is genetic drift

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random fluctuations in genotypic frequencies within a population (can cause change in gene frequencies in population over time AKA evolution)

98
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neutral alleles

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do not alter fitness and frequency of these allele changes via genetic drift

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are neutral alleles affected by nat selection?

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not strongly; can undergo frequency changes only via genetic drift

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neutral/synonymous change

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mutation in 3rd position; doesn’t change AA

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non-synonymous change

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mutation in 2nd position –> changes AA

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is a non-synonymous change neutral allele

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no

103
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natural selection

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differences in fitness among phenotypically and genotypically different individuals within a population

104
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genic selection

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natural selection acting at level of gene

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example of genic selection

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selfish genetic elements; transposable elements

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what can selection act on

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genes, cell types, individual organisms, populations, species

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what will natural selection cause an allele to increase in frequency

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if it leaves more copies of itself in subsequent generations

108
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does natural selection work on individuals, populations, species

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selection acts on individuals, changes things in species

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what are selfish genes

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transposable elements

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transposons

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self-replicating DNA sequences

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another word for transposons

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jumping genes

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who discovered transposons

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barbara mcclintock

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what do transposons do

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transpose form copy site to other places in genome

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are transposons highly conserved

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yeah; even tho initially considered junk DNA

115
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what causes majority of mutations

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transposons

116
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what did Wynne-Edwards come up with

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group selection

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can natural selection act on group selection

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not rlly

118
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what is group seelction

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differential survival and reproduction of groups that differ in genetic composition

119
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what was group selection used to explain

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explain the purpose of territories; argued that territoriality, which guaranteed that the population did not overexploit its resources

120
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what is altruism

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individuals might do things for the good of the group

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who said altruism evolving for the good of the group is faulty reasoning

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george williams

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what did george williams do

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criticized group selection

123
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how does selection acts

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directly and indirectly

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how does selection act directly

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as a result of an individuals own reproductive success

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what is this indirect component of selection

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kin selection

125
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how does selection act indirectly

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when the individual helps relatives, who also carry a proportion of their alleles (carry individual’s same genes)

126
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why is it called indirect selection

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isn’t directly acting on individuals; indirectly benefiting individuals by helping

127
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describe kin selection

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helping relatives who carry proportion of alleles of helper

128
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what did Wynne-Edwards say about altruistic behavior

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altruistic behavior will evolve b/c group selection favors it (i.e. b/c more ‘selfish’ populations go extinct)

129
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what does Williams say

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within-population selection favors the ‘selfish’ allele and increases it more rapidly than whole-population selection can act, so the ‘selfish’ allele will become fixed

130
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does group selection makes sense

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not really

131
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what did Williams say

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b/c individual selection operates more rapidly than group selection, the selfish genotype increases rapidly within populations and may spread by gene flow into populations and altruists and replaces them

132
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what happens to selfish genotype

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genotype becomes fixed, even if it increases chances of extinction

133
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why does the selfish genotype become fixed

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b/c its just easily transmitted and advantageous

134
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what illustrates problem w/ Williams argument

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Lemming Myth

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Lemming Myth

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when populations of lemmings in the high arctic become hella high that they throw themselves into the sea for the good of the group

136
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but what can happen w/ lemmings

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all it takes is one cheater that doesn’t do this; if altruism and cheating traits are heritable, then cheaters will prevail

137
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what did JBS Haldane say

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would sacrifice himself to save 2 brothers or 8 cousins; b/c he is reproducing more than himself

138
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what did JBS Haldane come up w/

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inclusive fitness

139
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what is relative number of an individual’s alleles that are passed onto future generations

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both directly and indirectly

140
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directly

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as a result of an individual’s own reproductive success

141
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indirectly

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when individual helps relatives who also carry proportion of alleles

142
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can selection act on species and clades

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yeah

143
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does species selection have inheritance

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no

144
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example of species selection

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if larger bodied species lineages tend to speciate more rapidly or avg. rate of extinction is lower over time, a clade will become more speciose and each species will have larger body size

145
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microevolution

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result of natural selection on individuals

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macroevolution

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aspects of history of life which determine diversification and resilience to extinction of clades

147
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what have some paleontologists suggested

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overwhelming determinants of patterns in nature are macroevolutionary rather than microevolutionary changes

148
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what can adaptation lead to

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complexity

149
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Paley’s divine watchmaker analogy

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as complexity increases, probability of an event being the outcome of chance diminishes to the point where a conscious designer is invoked

150
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who is Paley’s analogy used by

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those who invoke extrinsic or divine intervention to explain complex patterns in nature

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why does this misapplication arise

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  1. random nature of mutation necessitates that end phenotype be created from scratch
152
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what is another reason this misapplication arises

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intermediate stages have no intrinsic value, only the finish product is functional (like human eye)

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why is the 2nd one an incorrect assumption

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b/c evolution proceeds by cumulative change, not just random shuffling; each stage is functional

154
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sometimes it doesn’t have to lead to complexity, what can it lead to

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simplicity

155
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if traits are so complex, how can they just end up happening

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adaptation

156
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convergent evolution

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eyes of octopus and vertebrate; many similarities but hella differences

157
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evidence for evolutoin

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convergence and suboptimal designs

158
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what does natural selection work on

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available variation (panda’s thumb)

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what did stephen jay gould argue

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argued that textbooks illustrated adaptations w/ optimal ‘designs’ but suboptimal designs are just as illustrative of nat selection

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what did gould say about suboptimal designs

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just as illustrative of natural selection

161
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examples of panda’s thumb

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not a thumb, but modified extension of radial sesamoid wrist bone that evolved to be as big as a thumb

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what is ‘thumb’ used by pandas for

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to strip leaves off of bamboo before eating

163
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how did this false thumb evolve

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convergently

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who has false thumb

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lesser panda and giant panda

165
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are lesser and giant panda closely related

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no, so false thumb evolved independently in both groups –> convergent evolution

166
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what is convergence evidence of

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nat selection acting on variation in nature

167
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can evolution simplify or does it always complicate

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can simplify

168
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does evolution always proceed in direction of complexity

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not always; can simplify traits

169
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does evolution proceed in a direction?

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no, just happens

170
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example of evolution simplifying

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army ant has eyes reduced to single ommatidia; burrowing blind snake can detect light but not form an image

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where do reduced visual systems come from

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vestigial, natural selection

172
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what if reduced visual systems are vestigial

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mutation reducing them doesn’t hurt fitness

173
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what if reduced visual systems are from nat selection

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mutation reducing them increases fitness; means resources can allocated elsewhere –> lower chance of infection or damage

174
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historical constraints on selection

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since evolution doesn’t design organisms from scratch, each step is contingent on preceding steps

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what are other constraints

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ontogenic constraints

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what are ontogenic constraints

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shape and developmental constraints

177
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what is another constraint

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phylogenetic constraint

178
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what is phylogenetic constraint

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availability of variation

179
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pleiotropy

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a gene can have more than one effect

180
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what is phylogenetic constraint

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species retain features due to ancestry

181
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what do all mammals ahve

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seven neck vertebrae

182
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why do they have seven neck vertebrae

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result of phylogenetic constraint

183
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birds w/ longer necks have more what

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more vertebrae

184
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is birds having longer necks and more vertebrae adaptive

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yes

185
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what can natural selection lead to

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evolution of diversity

186
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what was bill size of G. fortis when small seeds were there

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small

187
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what happened to bill size after drought where small seeds became less abundant

A

bill size increased

188
Q

what happened where another bird invaded and ate large seeds

A

bill size decreased again

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