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2- Panglossian Flashcards

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Two authors:

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Gould & Lewontin / Mayr, Ernst

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2
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Point of Gould & Lewontin?

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Adaptation is reductive.

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Point of Mayr?

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Adaptation is an open system.

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4
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Mayr quote Dobzhansky “adaptation favors WHAT in WHERE”

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adapatation favours genotype in whole environment

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5
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Gradualism vs. … ? (not catastrophism)

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saltationism

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Are —– mechanisms part of adaptation?

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non-selective

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Darwin’s theory of inheritance …

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just blending of cladogram (pangenesis)

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Huxley …

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Darwin’s bull-dog. Bred plants. Told him that Pangenesis more complex

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August Weisman noted the differences between …

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Mitosis and meiosis

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August Weisman noted that ——– cannot be —- …

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acquired traits cannot be inherited

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Mendel 3 laws of inheritance

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  1. segregation of alleles 2. independent assortment of alleles 3. dominance of alleles
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Hugo de Vries (early 1900’s)

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rediscovered Mendel’s work

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Thomas H. Morgan - radiated what …

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fruit flies.

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Thomas H. Morgan concluded that it is not Natural Selection but …

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mutation

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Thomas H. Morgan emphasized mutation with Nat Sel as a …

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sieve

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16
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starting in the 1940s …

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Modern Evolutionary Synthesis

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In Modern Evo Synthesis, there are 2 camps. Geneticists and …

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Naturalists …

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Dobzhansky defined ____ as outside of ______

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gene drift & flow outside of natural selection

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Ernst Mayr - wanted a holistic view of organism. Called other geneticists:

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bean bag geneticists

20
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George Simpson … evo is not gradual. not linear. It is …

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punctuated equilibrium

21
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Watson & Crick discovered

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double helix (later racists)

22
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Rosalind Franklin was …

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the one who Watson & Crick plagiarized

23
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Moto Kimura (60s) most nucleotides are …

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neutral. influenced by gene drift. not founder effects.

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Stephen Jay Gould deduced what from observing snails in the Caribbean …

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Punctuated equilibrium. Snails SUDDENLY move to new area. Then change rapidly. Then stagnate.

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The (classical) Modern / Adaptationist VS. the Extended Evolutionary Synthesis is resolved by (Kimura)

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“neutral evolution”

26
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Cusped incisors linked to …

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vitamin D in milk / vitamin D metabolism / AND milk ducts in breasts

27
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Who was Karl Popper?

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Developed a technique of falsifiability / making more theories more “scientific” /

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ANT336 Evo Anthro (13 decks)

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