1. The objections to evolution by many non-scientists are mostly made without any previous research or investigations. It is argued that Darwin’s theory of evolution by common descent with modification does not support all living things. However, this theory is supported by many observations. Through geographic distribution, fossil records, morphology, embryology, and genomic analysis, evolution can be traced back to a common ancestry of living things. The development of phylogenies, relationships among species, and homologies, structural similarities between species, provide even more evidence to support common ancestry.
One of the biggest advances has come from molecular analysis of common ancestry. Compiling molecular phylogenies that focus
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2. There are many circumstances when deleterious alleles can persist in a population. Two of the reasons that this occurs are due to inbreeding, a type of non-random mating, and asexual reproduction. When inbreeding occurs, the frequency of homozygotes in a population increases. One of the negative circumstances that is associated with the increase in homozygosity is inbreeding depression. Inbreeding leads to a reduction in fitness of the population due to the homozygosity of deleterious alleles of offspring. These deleterious alleles are able to persist in these populations because there are no new alleles entering the population. Inbreeding causes a steady decline in population fitness since the deleterious alleles with move towards fixation. The homozygosity for these deleterious alleles will ultimate result in extinctions of small populations, especially if the reproduction rate in low (Wang et al. 1999). In one study, the effect of deleterious alleles on an inbreeding population of snakes was
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With a small population and disproportionate male reproductive success, inbreeding was the only method of reproduction. When this inbreeding population was compared with non-isolated populations of Vipera berus, the inbreeding population smaller litter sizes, a higher number of deformed and stillborn offspring and a limited amount of heterozygous individuals due to the fixation of alleles. This all led to a much higher amount of genetic similarity within the population. Once, males from other populations were introduced to the isolated population, the occurrences of deformations and inviable offspring was greatly reduced. Due to that discovery, the initial results show that the low reproduction rate and viability of Vipera berus in the isolated population result was a direct result of a persistence of deleterious alleles from inbreeding depression (Madsen et al. 1996). This is just one of many inbreeding populations that struggle to persist due to inbreeding
From the data we can conclude that different traits or parameters can effect a population in many different ways. It can decrease or increase a population depending on the trait. After a hurricane hits Lake Malawi the cichlid fish male population must adapt to the new factors that have been put upon them. Mutation within the population supports the fact that it can cause dominant and recessive allele frequency to decrease. Migration causes the allele frequency to lower as well due to movement of the population after the hurricane. The cichlid male fish with a higher fitness are more suitable for their environment, but when their fitness is lowered, their allele frequency decreases. This
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fitness does well in its habitat and passes those favorable alleles onto its offspring when it reproduces.
“The main lesson of biogeography is that only evolution can explain the diversity of life on continents and islands.” (Coyne 109).In convergent evolution 3 of the six components discussed in chapter 1 are working together. These 3 components are common ancestry, speciation, and natural selection. If evolution did exist, ancestors of species today that lived in the same place, when dug up, should be fossils that resemble organisms today.
In a large, randomly mating population where mutations, migration, and natural selection are no longer viable, the allele and genotypic frequencies will remain at equilibrium. If any of these conditions are changed, then the allele and genotype frequencies will be unable to maintain genetic equilibrium.
The author of this book, Brian Sykes, presents his discoveries regarding the possibility that all humans branched from seven main clans. The book focuses mostly on the ancestors of Europe and the East. He supports his findings with the evidence of mitochondrial DNA. Sykes explains that mitochondrial DNA can be traced back to the original matriarchal ancestors. His findings showed that people from certain parts of the world had mitochondrial DNA that related more closely to one of the seven clans. Each of the clans has some defining characteristics which make it an more reliable source of lineage rather than ordinary DNA, which has become muddled throughout the generations. He presents the women of each clan with enigmatic names: Helena, Xenia, Ursula, Velda, Jasmine, Tara, and Katrine. He also explains the advances in genetic science, which he uses to explain the studies presented. The studies regarded Polynesian islanders, the Romanovs, the hunter-gatherers in Europe, and many others.
Biodiversity is life’s variety. It is the varying genetics that each species carries that makes it different and “unique”. Biodiversity is important, not only in evolution, but in survival; when sometimes those terms can mean the very same thing. Interestingly, biodiversity can mean a variance in the life itself – or within the genetics of a species. In keeping breeding habits within the same lineage, some animals risk lower biodiversity and sometimes even deformities and disease, as they are able to more easily pass on unfavorable hereditary traits. In increasing the overall biodiversity, the only risk is a
Inbreeding is the outcome of offspring from mating of individuals that are related by a descent. It is important to limit this effect in conservation programs due to the increased amount of homozygosity and exposed deleterious recessive alleles, which increase the risk of extinction to the population.
Arnold, P. (2009, December 4). Endangered Species Tasmanian Devil: Low Genetic Diversity as a Factor of the Tasmanian Devil as an Endangered Species. Retrieved March 8, 2015, from http://www.brighthub.com/science/genetics/articles/13897.aspx
Contrary to professors similar to Antfolk, Lieberman, and Santtila, Leavitt uses sources from the late nineties that argue the fact that “inbreeding effects vary with socio-environmental circumstances and the consistency of the inbreeding patterns” (Leavitt para. 9). These sources have conducted biological experiments that explain that inbreeding occurring in isolated areas may affect the reproductivity of certain individuals if they happen to inherit the harmful gene created from the inbreeding; however, the harmfulness is not passed down to the later generations. An idea is created to minimize the reproduction of destructive alleles so that it is very rare to be obtained by anyone, and this idea is that “the population must maintain a relatively
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The results of individual’s translocation suggested that recessive deleterious alleles were more common in the founder population, but their effects were more often masked by beneficial dominant alleles from the migrant population (Hogg et al, 2006). In some other cases heterozygosity itself is observed to have fitness advantages, while that can be highly dependent on the context of the heterozygosity. Genetic rescue also carries the risk of outbreeding depression, which can arise when populations are so divergent or locally adapted, hybrid offspring therefore have intrinsic genomic mismatches and unfit traits. Hogg et al (2006) found no evidence of outbreeding depression for any traits. In this case of population genetic rescue I think it appeared to be a success, individual with outbred pedigrees showed increases in fitness and longevity. Moreover the effective population of founder descendent that was 18.6 in 1985 has been dramatically increased, as of today the effective population of this herd is 158.26 also indicated that this population fully recovered from excessive inbreeding
There is another side to the biodiversity of the evolutionary field, as the population weakens the species start the inbreeding of smaller populations, thus playing a role in the extinction of a species. Inbreeding is reproduction among members of a species that are genetically similar. The genetic inbreeding is designed to bolster populations of species whose numbers are in decline. However, when only a few species or varieties of a species are cultivated or survive, the genetic diversity of the organism declines, and population is more vulnerable to being wiped out by new diseases or climate changes because of the inbreeding (Alters, 2000).
The Enlightenment The Age of Enlightenment in the 18th century, is regarded today as the beginning of the modern times. As the progressive-minded scholars and writers of the early 18th century were looking for a name for the new spiritual movement that could even be understood by non-educated, the verb enlighten offered them an comparable word. As the sun's light dispels the darkness and makes everything clearly visible, enlightens, so the bright light of reason the darkness of superstition, blind allegiance, of intolerance and dull impulsiveness should defeat. Around the middle of the century the newly formed noun "Enlightenment” was then already becoming a catchword. Critical to the Enlightenment was the formation of a new social class,
The discovery of molecular data of various human species has allowed for a clearer picture of the lineage that led to the modern human species. An article called The Hybrid Origin