Natural Selection

Question 0

What are the 6 biggest myths of natural selection?

Answer 0

Individuals evolve, evolution occurs through sudden major mutational changes, evolution is a random process, organisms evolve to act for the good of the species, evolution is progressive and goal directed, evolution produces perfectly adapted populations

Question 1

What is fact #1?

Answer 1

Potential exponential increase of pop’n

Question 2

What is fact #2?

Answer 2

Steady state of most pop’n

Question 3

What is fact #3?

Answer 3

Limitation of resources

Question 4

What is the 1st inference? And what 3 facts make it an inference?

Answer 4

Competition for resources wishing pop’n

Question 5

What is the 4th fact?

Answer 5

Individuals vary within a pop’n

Question 6

What is the second inference? And what 2 points make it an inference?

Answer 6

Differential survival and reproduction of individuals | competition for resources/individuals vary

Question 7

What is the 5th fact?

Answer 7

Much variation is heritable

Question 8

What is the 3rd inference? And what 2 points make it an inference?

Answer 8

Change (adaption of pop’n over time = EVOLUTION | differential survival/heritable variations