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Microevolution
Change in gene frequencies and phenotypic traits within a population and species
Macro evolution
Large scale evolutionary changes including the formation of new species and taxa
Convergent evolution
The evolution of similar traits in distantly related species
Divergent evolution
The large scale evolution of a group into many different species
Malthus evolution theory
Human populations grow exponentially but food sources grow at a constant rate
Lyell evolution
Earth had undergone and continues to undergo slow steady and gradual change
Lamarck evolution
Environment plays a key role in the evolution of species. Then theory of inheritance of acquired traits
Erasmus Darwin
Great grandpa. Proposed all life may have a single source
Charles Darwin
Natural selection
De Buffon
Similar organisms have a common ancestor
Living fossils
Species that lived millions of years ago but are still alive today with little or no changes.
Living fossil example
Alligator snapping turtle bowfin fish
Adaptive radiation
Relatively rapid evolution of a single species into many new species to fill a variety of new niches
Adaptive radiation example
Darwinian finches in the Galápagos Islands. 1 species evolved to fill 13 new niches
Gene pool
The complete set of alleles contained within a single population
Genetic drift
Changes to allele frequency as a result of chance
Founder effect
Genetic drift that results when a small number of individuals separate from there original population and form a new one.
Bottleneck effect
Dramatic often temporary reduction in population size resulting in a large genetic drift
Homologous structure
Similar structures in species that share a common ancestor
Analogous structure
Distantly related species develop structures that are anatomically different but serve the same function
Gradualism model type of change
Slow change over many generations
Punctuated model change
Long periods of no change with short periods of rapid change
Gradualism model what’s important
Natural selection
Punctuated model what’s important
Genetic drift and founder effect