Macroevolution is the main event in the evolutionary history of life on Earth •Documented in the fossil record

•The geologic record is based on the sequence of fossils•Earth's history divided into three eons•Within the most recent eon, eras and periods marked by mass or lesser extinctions

MACROEVOLUTION AND EARTH'S HISTORY

•Some major events in the history of life•Precambrian period: oldest known fossils- prokaryotes from 3.5 billion years ago

•Paleozoic era: lineages that gave rise to modern life forms

•Mesozoic era: age of reptiles, including dinosaurs

•Cenozoic era: Explosive evolution of mammals, birds, and flowering plants

Radiometric dating can gauge the actual ages of fossils and the rocks in which they are found

•Based on the decay time of radioactive isotopes relative to other isotopes•Carbon-14 for relatively young fossils•Isotopes with longer half-lives for older fossils

Continental drift has played a major role in macroevolution• Continental drift is the slow, incessant movement of Earth's crustal plates on the

hot mantle

• World geography changes constantly

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Eurasian PlateNorth

American Plate

Pacific Plate

Nazca Plate

African Plate

SouthAmerican

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ArabianPlate Indian

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Antarctic Plate

Splitdeveloping

Australian Plate

Edge of one plate being pushed over edge ofneighboring plate (zones of violent geologic events)

• Continental movements have greatly influenced the distribution of organisms around the world

• Formation of Pangaea 250 million years ago altered habitats and triggered extinctions

• Breakup of Pangea beginning 180 million years ago created a number of separate evolutionary arenas

•Explains the geographical distribution of diverse life forms

•Examples: marsupials, lungfishes

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Plate tectonics are the forces involved in movements of Earth's crustal plates

• The geologic processes that result include volcanoes and earthquakes

•Can create devastation or opportunities for organisms

• The boundaries of plates are hot spots of such geologic activity

CONNECTION

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San Francisco

NorthAmericanPlate

Santa CruzPacificPlate

Los Angeles

California

San Andreas Fault

15.5 Mass extinctions were followed by diversification of life-forms• Extinctions occur all the time, but extinction rates have not been steady

• Over the last 600 million years, at least six periods of mass extinctions have occurred, including

• Permian extinction (250 million years ago); claimed 96% of aquatic life

• Cretaceous extinction (65 million years ago); eliminated dinosaurs

• Cause of mass extinctions is unclear

• Permian extinction occurred at a time of enormous volcanic explosions

• Cretaceous extinction may have been caused by an asteroid

• Mass extinctions have been followed by an explosive increase in diversity

• Provide surviving organisms with new environmental opportunities

• Example: rise of mammals after extinction of dinosaurs

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ChicxulubcraterYucatan

Peninsula

YucatanPeninsula

-Naming system used today

-Formed by Linnaeus

-Name an organism using the Genus and species

*Homo sapiens

-WHY??

-Aristotle was the first to classify

*classified as either plant or animal

*divided further into: land, water, or air dwellers

*plant classification was based on their stems

BINOMIAL NOMENCLATURE

-Early scientists used common names which caused confusion

Ex: robin, pine tree

-Everyday names may not accurately describe the organism

Ex: Jellyfish is not a fish, not made of jelly

-Can name many species with one name

Ex: Maple tree

…..Sugar Maple, Red Maple, Silver Maple

Using Genus & species if known as the SCIENTIFIC NAME

*Describes organism

*Ex: Trifolium agrarium

-3-leaved and found in fields

WHY Bionomial Nomenclature?

1.MONERA

-prokaryotic-Asexual reproduction

-Includes greatest number of living things on Earth

EX: bacteria

2.PROTISTA

-eukaryotic without specialized tissue systems

-ingest food

-aquatic, moist habitats

EX: Algae

3.FUNGI

-heterotrophic organisms

-absorb nutrients

-most are terrestrial

-EX: Yeast, mushrooms

KINGDOMS

4. PLANTAE

-all plants

-eukaryotic/muticellular

-photosynthetic

EX: mosses, tress, flowers, shrubs

5. ANIMALIA

-Eukaryotic, multicelluar

-Ingest food

-Sexual reproduction, few asexually

EX: spiders, elephants, humans

KINGDOMS (cont.)

Clown, Fool, or Simply Well Adapted?• The blue-footed booby has many specialized characteristics that are very functional in

water but less useful on land

• Such evolutionary adaptations are inherited traits that enhance an organism's ability to survive and reproduce in its particular environment

• Evolution is the changes in organisms over time

A sea voyage helped Darwin frame his theory of evolution

• Pre-Darwinian ideas about the origin of species

• Early Greek philosophers: Simpler life forms preceded more complex ones

• Aristotle: Species are fixed and do not evolve; had a great impact on Western thinking

• Judeo-Christian biblical view: All species were individually designed by a divine creator

DARWIN'S THEORY OF EVOLUTION

• In the century prior to Darwin, only a few scientists questioned the belief that species are fixed

• Buffon: The study of fossils suggested that Earth is older than 6,000 years, and fossil forms might be early versions of modern forms

• Lamarck: Fossils are related to modern forms because life evolves; acquired characteristics are inherited

• Charles Darwin made a round-the-world sea voyage as a naturalist on HMS Beagle in the 1830s• Darwin observed similarities between living and fossil organisms and the diversity of life on the Galápagos Islands

• Darwin's experiences during the voyage helped him frame his ideas about evolution

Marine Iguana …..Galapagos Islands

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GreatBritain

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Africa

Europe Asia

Equator

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PACIFICOCEAN

• After his return, Darwin began to document his observations and his new theory of evolution• Darwin's On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection was published in 1859

• "Descent with modification" summarizes Darwin's view of life

• All organisms are related through descent from a remote common ancestor

• Descendants spread into diverse habitats over millions of years and acquired adaptations to their environments

• The history of life resembles a tree with multiple branchings from a common trunk

• Species that are closely related share characteristics

Darwin proposed natural selection as the mechanism of evolution• The essence of Darwin's theory of natural selection is

differential success in reproduction• Organisms produce more offspring than the environment can support

• Organisms vary in many characteristics that can be inherited

• Excessive numbers of organisms lead to a struggle for survival

• Individuals whose characteristics are best adapted to their environment are more likely to survive and reproduce

•The unequal ability of individuals to survive and reproduce leads to a gradual change in the characteristics of a population over generations

•Natural selection is supported by evidence from artificial selection

Vegetables are all derived from wild mustard plant

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African wild dog Coyote Wolf Fox Jackal

Thousands tomillions of years

of natural selection

Ancestral canine

The study of fossils provides strong evidence for evolution•Fossils are the hard parts of organisms that remain after organic materials decay•Rarely, an entire organism is fossilized

•The fossil record strongly supports the theory of evolution •Changes in sea level and drying and refilling of lakes over time result in rock strata that trap organisms

• Fossils appear in an ordered array within layers of sedimentary rocks

• The fossil record reveals that organisms have evolved in a historical sequence

• Many fossils link early extinct species with species living today

13.4 A mass of other evidence reinforces the evolutionary view of life• Biogeography

• The geographic distribution of species suggested to Darwin that organisms evolve from common ancestors

• Isolated organisms resemble each other more than organisms in similar but distant places

• Comparative anatomy

• Homologous structures are features that often have different functions but are structurally similar because of common ancestry

• Vestigial structures are remnants of structures that served important functions in an organism's ancestors

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Human Cat Whale Bat

• Comparative embryology

• Common embryonic structures in all vertebrates are evidence for common descent

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Chick embryo

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Human embryo

• Molecular biology

• Comparisons of DNA and amino acid sequences between different organisms reveal evolutionary relationships

• Molecular biology provides strong evidence that all life forms are related

13.5 Scientists can observe natural selection in action• Examples of evolutionary adaptation observed over a short time

• Different camouflage adaptations in different environments

• Development of pesticide resistance in insects

CONNECTION

Video: Seahorse Camouflage

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Chromosome with geneconferring resistanceto pesticide

Pesticide application

SurvivorAdditionalapplications of thesame pesticide willbe less effective, andthe frequency ofresistant insects inthe populationwill grow

• Examples of evolutionary adaptation reveal three key points about natural selection

• Natural selection is more of an editing process than a creative mechanism

• Natural selection is contingent on time and place

• Significant evolutionary change can occur in a short time

• 13.6 Populations are the units of evolution

• Population

• A group of individuals of the same species living in the same place at the same time

• May be isolated from other groups or concentrated

• The smallest unit that can evolve

POPULATION GENETICS AND THE MODERN SYNTHESIS

Copyright © 2005 Pearson Education, Inc. publishing as Benjamin Cummings

• Population genetics

• Combines Darwin's and Mendel's ideas in studying how populations change genetically over time

• The modern synthesis

• Connects population genetics with other sciences

• Focuses on population as the unit of evolution and central role of natural selection

• Studying evolution at the population level

• Evolution: change in the prevalence of certain heritable characteristics in a population over a span of generations

• Gene pool: the total collection of genes in a population at any one time

• Microevolution: a change in the relative frequencies of alleles in a gene pool

• Species: a group of populations capable of interbreeding and producing fertile offspring

13.7 The gene pool of a nonevolving population remains constant over the generations• In a nonevolving population, the shuffling of alleles that accompanies sexual reproduction

does not alter the genetic makeup of the population

• In Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium, the frequency of each allele in the gene pool will remain constant unless acted upon by other agents

• For a population to be in Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium, it must satisfy five main conditions

• The population is very large

• The population is isolated

• Mutations do not alter the gene pool

• Mating is random

• All individuals are equal in reproductive success

• The Hardy-Weinberg conditions are rarely met in nature

• We can follow alleles in a population to observe if Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium exists

• Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium provides a basis for understanding how populations evolve

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Number of animals(total = 500)

Genotype frequencies

Number of allelesin gene pool(total = 1,000)

Allele frequencies

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Eggs

W eggp = 0.8

w eggq = 0.2

W spermp = 0.8

w spermq = 0.2

WWp2 = 0.64

Wwpq = 0.16

wwq2 = 0.04

wWqp = 0.16

Next generation:

Allele frequencies

Genotype frequencies 0.64 WW 0.32 Ww 0.04 ww

0.8 W 0.2 w

Sperm

13.8 The Hardy-Weinberg equation is useful in public health science• Public health scientists use the Hardy-Weinberg equation to estimate frequencies of

disease-causing alleles in the human population

• Example: phenylketonuria (PKU)

CONNECTION

13.9 In addition to natural selection, genetic drift and gene flow can contribute to evolution• Genetic drift: change in the gene pool of a population due to chance

• Can alter allele frequencies in a population

• The smaller the population, the greater the impact

• Bottleneck effect: an event that drastically reduces population size

• Founder effect: colonization of a new location by a small number of individuals

Originalpopulation

Bottleneckingevent

Survivingpopulation

• Gene flow: the movement of individuals or gametes between populations

• Can alter allele frequencies in a population

• Tends to reduce differences between populations

• Natural selection

• Best-adapted individuals have the most reproductive success

• Results in accumulation of traits that adapt a population to its environment

13.10 Endangered species often have reduced variation• Loss of genetic variability due to bottlenecking may reduce a population's ability to adapt to

environmental change

• Particularly threatening to endangered species such as the cheetah

CONNECTION

13.11 Variation is extensive in most populations• Individual variation exists in all sexually reproducing populations

• Heritable variation results from a combination of genotype and environmental influences

• Polymorphism: two or more forms of phenotypic characteristics

• Geographic variation: variation of an inherited characteristic from place to place

• May occur along a geographic continuum (a cline)

VARIATION AND NATURAL SELECTION

13.12 Mutation and sexual recombination generate variation• Mutations-changes in the nucleotide sequence of DNA-can create new alleles

• Only mutations in cells that produce gametes can affect a population's gene pool

• A mutation may rarely improve adaptation to the environment and thus contribute to evolution

• Sexual recombination generates variation by shuffling alleles during meiosis

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13.13 The evolution of antibiotic resistance in bacteria is a serious public health concern• Natural selection has led to the evolution of antibiotic-resistant bacteria

• Overuse and misuse of antibiotics has contributed to the proliferation of antibiotic-resistant strains

• Example: tuberculosis

CONNECTION

13.14 Diploidy and balancing selection preserve variation• Diploidy (two sets of chromosomes) helps to prevent populations from becoming

genetically uniform

• Recessive alleles are "hidden" from natural selection and remain in the population

• Balancing selection allows two or more phenotypic forms in a population

• Balanced polymorphism may result from

• Heterozygote advantage; example: sickle-cell disease

• Frequency-dependent selection

• Neutral variation provides no apparent advantage or disadvantage

• Example: fingerprints

13.15 The perpetuation of genes defines evolutionary fitness• Evolutionary fitness is the relative contribution an individual makes to the gene pool of the

next generation

• Survival of genes depends on production of fertile offspring

• Selection indirectly adapts a population to its environment by acting on phenotype

13.16 Natural selection can alter variation in a population in three ways• Stabilizing selection: favors intermediate phenotypes

• Directional selection: acts against individuals at one of the phenotypic extremes

• Disruptive selection: favors individuals at both extremes of the phenotypic range

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13.17 Sexual selection may produce sexual dimorphism• Sexual dimorphism

• The distinction in appearance between males and females of a species

• Sexual selection

• The determining of "who mates with whom"

• Leads to the evolution of secondary sexual characteristics that may give individuals an advantage in mating

13.18 Natural selection cannot fashion perfect organisms• There are at least four reasons why natural selection cannot produce perfection

• Organisms are limited by historical constraints

• Adaptations are often compromises

• Chance and natural selection interact

• Selection can only edit existing variations