Coyne – Chapter 5. Hornets versus Japanese honey bees – Hornets versus European
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- Coyne Chapter 5. Hornets versus Japanese honey bees
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Hornets versus European honey bees
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- Unparasitized AntParasitized Ant Parasitized ant Among the
Berries
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- Cryptic Katydids
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- Cryptic Katydid
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- Flower mimicking bee to attract males
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- What has to happen for evolution via natural selection to
occur?
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- Why do we say that mutations are random? In what sense are
mutations not random? Is evolution random?
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- Coyne puts up some pretty big demands on natural selection.
What are they?
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- MISCONCEPTION: Natural selection acts for the good of the
species.
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- MISCONCEPTION: Natural selection involves organisms trying to
adapt.
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- What is genetic drift? How does drift compare to natural
selection?
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- In what ways are artificial selection (i.e. domestication of
dogs, breeding of crops for particular traits) alike? In what ways
are they different?
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- What are the lessons to be had from humans selecting on dogs,
corn, wheat, rice, cows, etc.?
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- Evolution, HIV, and AZT
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- Geospiza fortis and Daphne Major Darwin's Finches in the
Galapagos Islands
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- Beak depth is variable within populations.
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- Beak depth is heritable.
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- In 1977, there was a huge draught and lots of birds died due to
lack of food.
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- The abundance of seeds declined.
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- The few seeds that were left were large and hard.
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- If we compare the original birds with the survivors, we see
that the survivors had deeper beaks.
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- The offspring of the survivors had larger beaks (like their
parents) compared to finches hatched before the draught.
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- Another depiction of how beak size, beak shape, and body size
changed with the draught. draught
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- Geospiza fortis and Daphne Major Darwin's Finches in the
Galapagos Islands
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- Soapberry Bugs
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- Introduced plant- Bugs have short mouthpart Soapberry bugs in
Florida Example of rapid evolution due to natural selection:
Soapberry bugs Native plant- Bugs have long mouthpart Soapberry
bugs have long, needlelike beaks, the they use to penetrate the
fruits of plants and consume seeds. They liquefy the contents and
then suck them back up.
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- Soapberry bugs Native plant- Bugs have long mouthpart
Introduced plant- Bugs have short mouthpart
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- Soapberry bugs (Jadera haematoloma) and their native and
introduced host plants in Texas and Florida, drawn to scale Native
Host Plant Introduced Host Plant
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- The Evolution of Complex Biochemical Pathways
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- Has there been enough time for evolution to have produced all
of the biological diversity that we see today?
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- MISCONCEPTION: Natural selection gives organisms what they
need.
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- MISCONCEPTION: All traits of organisms are adaptations.