Lecture 27: Natural Selection (and other stuff) Flashcards
1
Q
Darwin proposed Natural Selection as a…
A
- Mechanism for evolution
2
Q
What are the four things for natural selection to work?
A
- Variation
- Inheritance
- Selection
- Time
3
Q
Alfred Russel Wallace proposed that…
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- The best fitted lived
4
Q
How did Darwin stab Wallace in the back?
A
- He rushed to publish “The Origin of Species” after the conference at which he didn’t attend
5
Q
The Sexual Selective Theory is driven by…
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- Mate choice
- The female chooses who she wants to mate with
- Birds with longer tails, you would assume they’d die out
- But females choose the male birds with longer tails
6
Q
Allen Wilson proposed that…
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- Showed that relationships between species could be
reconstructed from changes in a molecule
7
Q
Evolution explains…
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- Anatomy
- The origins of microbial resistance
- The immune system
- Some human disease
