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Evolution Unit• Chapter 15, Darwin’s Theory of Evolution
– Puzzle of life’s diversity– Ideas that shaped Darwin’s thinking– Darwin presents his case
• Chapter 16, Evolution of Populations– Genes and variation– Evolution as genetic change– Process of speciation
• Chapter 17, History of Life– Fossil record– Earth’s early history– Evolution and multicellular life– Patterns of evolution
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Why Care About Evolution?1. Curiosity about the origins of life, how all the
species came into being, how the living world came into being.
2. Curiosity about what may happen to the natural world in the future.
3. Predict what new life forms research will discover in the future.
4. Evolutionary theory can help predict which strains of flu, AIDS, and West Nile virus will be most deadly next year.
5. Desire to learn about all life, past, present and future.
6. Want to pass this biology class and the TAKS test.
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Definitions to Know• Scientific Theory = a well-supported, testable
explanation of phenomena that have occurred in the natural world.
• Evolution = change over time, the process by which modern organisms descended from ancient organisms
• Is Evolution Fact or Fiction?– Scientists believe it’s Fact.
• Proof?– Fossils– Speciation– Geological evidence– DNA evidence– Etc.
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Charles Darwin (1809-1882)• British naturalist famous for his theories of
evolution and natural selection. • Like several scientists before him, Darwin
believed all the life on earth evolved (developed gradually) over millions of years from a few common ancestors.
• In 1831, Darwin took a trip around the world on the ship, the M.S. Beagle, where he collected evidence that led him to propose his famousTheory of Evolution.
There’s a huge tortoise lurking behind me, interesting. And he has weird birds on
his back.
Charles Darwin
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Darwin’s Voyage on M.S. Beagle
Starting point: 1831, England
Ending point: 1836, England
Darwin’s observations showed him there were patterns to the diversity of life on Earth. Organisms are adapted to the environment where they live.
Did you know there are no rabbits in Australia? No kangaroos in England? No monkeys in North America? No elephants in Alaska?
I spent 5 years on a ship, can you imagine
what that was like? What we all
smelled like?
Ewww, nasty.
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The Galapagos Islands• The most important, influential stop
on Darwin’s trip was the Galapagos Islands
• 1000 km west of S. America, a cluster of islands isolated by miles of sea
• The islands had different climates, and therefore, had different varieties of animals and plants
1. Giant Tortoises2. Iguanas
3. Finches
That’s my friend Finchy!
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Animals Darwin studied:
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I’m lonesome
George
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Galapagos Turtles
Pinta IslandIntermediate shell
Pinta
Isabela IslandDome-shaped shell
Hood IslandSaddle-backed shell
HoodFloreana
Santa Fe
Santa Cruz
James
Marchena
Fernandina
Isabela
Tower
Each turtle lives on a certain island, and their
shells are different, island-dependent!
Brilliant!
The shape of each turtle’s shell is different and the different shapes depend on the turtle’s habitat.
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Scientists Who Influenced Darwin• Discovery of fossils helped shaped the
scientists of Darwin’s time• 2 biologists who influenced Darwin were
James Hutton and Charles Lyell, they helped scientists recognize that:1. Earth is many millions of years old (Hutton)2. The same natural process happening THEN are
still happening NOW (Lyell)
• Jean Baptiste de Lamarck – Living things have changed over time– Living things respond to their environments– Through either use or disuse, organisms acquired or
lost certain traits during their lifetime, and these traits
could be passed on to the next generation
Lamarck here, nicely done
Darwin!
Thank you. I’m pretty smart.
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More on Lamarck
• Giraffe stretching it’s neck to reach leaves will lead to offspring with longer necks.
• Disproved after discoveries of genetics and how traits are inherited. Also consider common sense, if you lost your arm in an accident, that doesn’t mean your child will only have one arm.
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Thomas Malthus (1798)• English economist who introduced the concept
of human population growth and the problem of too many people, too little space
• Populations don’t grow uncontrollably, there is a limit to population growth
• Why do some survive and some die?She’s about to be shark bait. Sharks are perfect
predators, perfect killing machines.
Too many people, too little
space, let the shark have her!
Thomas Malthus
He has no heart, he’s a mathematician.
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What took him so long? 25 years later….• In 1858, Alfred Wallace sent Darwin an essay with the
same ideas about evolution! • They presented their work together at a conference,
but….• This pushed Darwin to publish
his work, before Wallace• The Origin of the Species
– Proposed a mechanism for evolution, called Natural Selection
– Presented evidence that evolution has been happening for millions of years
You stole MY idea! Cheat! Thief!
You’re famous and I’m not!
Shut up Wallace, you sore loser. Survival of the fittest
and all that.
I procrastinated, and came close to losing my chance for fame! And I
aged quite a bit.
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So, what is Natural Selection?
1. There is variation in traits.
Ex. Some beetles are green and some are brown.
2. Some organisms are better suited to survive and therefore reproduce more.
Ex. Green beetles tend to get eaten by birds and therefore reproduce less than brown beetles.
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3. There is heredity.Ex. The survivng brown beetles have babies with the same beneficial trait.
4. End result: The better trait, brown, allows the beetles to reproduce more therefore making the population of brown beetles more numerous than green beetles, eventually all beetles will be brown.
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Darwin’s Finches• Darwin also collected finches, birds, matching their
beak and body shapes with different islands- just like the tortoises.
• Beak shapes in the finches indicated their type of diet, what they ate, and this told him where they lived
Ground finchTree Finch
In other words, if you get separated from your own
species, you evolve or change in response to your
environment.
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The finches of the Galapagos Islands provide a classic example of Adaptive Radiation —the evolutionary process through which a single lineage gives rise to species occupying diverse environmental niches. In one model of how species form, geographical separation leads to evolutionary divergence (growing apart).
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Darwin’s Finches
FYI, each beak is designed for a
different purpose.
Leaves
Seeds
Insects Grubs
Tool using
Seeds and Fruit
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Use it or lost it
Hi! I’m Crabby. I want to be
superior, how can I do that?
I know! I’ll grow a huge claw, and I’ll squash those
other crabs!
Look, it’s Crabby, what a jerk. Hey,
Crabby, you loser!
Let’s drop him!
You just wait! I’ll get you one day!
Stay away from me!
Ha Ha! Are you scared? Huh? Are you scared you little
twerps! The Next Day……
Where are you going? Run away! Run away!
Boy, dad sure did know what he was doing when he developed this huge
claw- weapon!
Yeah, thanks dad!
Eeek! It’s the C Gang, they won’t leave me
alone! Oh, I’ve GOT to grow that claw!
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Artificial Selection and Natural Selection• Variation exists in nature and animal and plant breeders use
this through artificial selection– A farmer may like a see a plant with bigger tomato and
use the seeds of that plant for next year’s crop– Or he may breed the two best milk cows to get a cow
who is an even better producer of milk
• Darwin’s greatest contribution was his concept of natural selection
• In the struggle for survival, the most fit- the fastest prey, the strongest predator, the one with the sharpest claws, wins the game of survival. Survival of the fittest.
• Fitness = the ability to survive and reproduce in a specific environment
How is your fitness? Did you notice how fat Wallace was? NOT fit.
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Adaptation = any inherited characteristic that increases an organisms chance of survival
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Proof for Evolution• Fossil record = Darwin argued
that the fossil record provided evidence that living things have been evolving for millions of years
• Geographic Distribution of living species: Descent with modification, says that similar species in similar environments but in different locations, were products of different evolution paths
Beaver
Muskrat
Beaver andMuskrat
Coypu
Capybara
Coypu andCapybara
They all look like rats to me.
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Fossils• Darwin didn’t just observe and collect living
animals, he also collected fossils.• Fossils = preserved remains of ancient organisms• This led to questions like….
– “Where did all these organisms go?” “Why aren’t they still here?” “Why do they resemble organisms we have living today?”
This is too much of a
coincidence.
Glyptodon = dead Armadillo= alive
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Neanderthal man- existed from about 250 to 30 thousand years ago
Homo erectus- existed around 1.8 million years ago
Homo hablis- existed 2.4 to 1.5 million years ago
Homo sapiens- existed from about 200 thousand years ago (TYA) to the present
Do we look alike?
Australopithecines- existed between 5 and 2 million years ago
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Homologous Body Structures
• What does Homo mean?– Homo = same, similar
• Remember these? – Homozygous- same allele for a trait, tt, TT– Homologous chromosomes- same
chromosome, one from mom one from dad
Turtle Alligator Bird Mammal
Ancient lobe-finned fish
Homolgous structures all develop from the same
embryo tissues but have different functions in the
adult organism.
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Vestigial organs• Why do we need our appendix?• It’s useless now, but it may have served
some function in our past• Vestigial organs = organ with little or no
function, left over from the past, ex. appendix
If you can live without it, with no medical
help, then it’s useless!
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Evidence for Evolution
1. Resistance to antibiotics and insecticides.
2. Endosymbiotic Theory and Biochemical compounds
3. Homologous structures4. Embryo development5. Vestigial Structures6. Fossil Record
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Evidence for Evolution: 1. Resistance to Antibiotics and Insecticides
Antibiotic resistance – antibiotics kill the microbes that make you sick, if you do not finish all of the medication all the microbes are not killed. They build up resistance to the antibiotics and they will make populations that are resistant, causing the antibiotic to no longer work for you.
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Insecticide – same as antibiotic, over time the insecticide becomes less and less effective.
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Evidence for Evolution: 2. Endosymbiotic Theory and biochemical compounds
• Even small cell organelles show signs of evolution.
• The Endosymbiosis Theory was proposes that mitochondria and chloroplast were both descendants of bacteria.
• Related species have similar RNA and DNA in their cells. Chimpanzees and humans contain very similar DNA sequences.
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Evidence for Evolution: 3. Homologous Structures • Similar structures with different
functions. suggests that all vertebrates share a common ancestor.
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Evidence for Evolution: 4. Embryo Development
• At some time in their development all vertebrate embryos have a tail, buds that become limbs, and gill slits.
• The tail remains in most adult vertebrates, in humans it disappears before birth, the gill slits turn into structures found in the throat.
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Evidence for Evolution: 5. Vestigial Structures
• Structures that have reduced functions or no function at all, but were once used by ancestors.
Ex. Human appendix is a vestigial structure, it has absolutely no function but was once used by our ancestors. Also the human tailbone
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Evidence for Evolution: 6. Fossil Record
Fossils – any sign of earlier life, usually found in the soil or sedimentary rock.
Fossil records show the evolution of lifebecause they show the change in our Earthand it’s inhabitants over time.
Paleontologists – scientists who study fossils.
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Ch. 16, Evolution of Populations• Why are we all so different?• Variation in populations is the raw
material for evolution• 2 main sources of variation:
– Mutations = any change in a sequence of DNA, some are harmful, some are beneficial and some don’t have any effect at all
– Gene shuffling = mixing of genes due to random sexual mating
• 23 pairs of chromosomes can produce 8.4 million different combinations of genes
• Crossing over during Meiosis
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Variation and Gene Pools • Genetic variation is studied in
POPULATIONS, not individuals• Members of a population share a Gene Pool• Gene pool = consists of all genes, including
all the different alleles that are present in a population– Why?– They descended from a common ancestor
• Relative frequency of an allele = number of times an allele occurs in a gene pool
• So, evolution is any change in the relative frequency of alleles in a population
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Natural Selection and Speciation• Natural Selection= (Dr. Malone’s definition)
when individuals who have what it takes survive and reproduce best; survival of the fittest, it’s a dog eat dog, you got to step on someone else to get where you want to go, world
• Founder Effect = when a population shrinks down to only a few members, then rebounds so all of the future members have the “founder’s” genes
• Speciation = when natural selection and other random effects lead to the creation of a new species– Reproductive Isolation = populations become
reproductively isolated from each other, so it leads to evolution of a new species
This is why cats and dogs can’t have cat-ogs, or is it do-cats?
Dogats? Cadogs?
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Write as much as you want from this paragraph
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If all our women moved to China, could we continue to
interbreed? Ha ha. Don’t think so!Speciation
• Behavioral Isolation = when two populations can interbreed, but their different behaviors, or reproductive strategies, just don’t turn each other on, get it?
• Geographic Isolation = two populations are separated by geographic barriers, like mountains or oceans and they can’t interbreed
Move mountain!
Move mountain!
It’s too far to fly!
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I say go for it!
•Temporal Isolation = two populations are separated by different reproductive times
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Speciation, an example
• The scene: a population of wild fruit flies minding its own business on several bunches of rotting bananas, cheerfully laying their eggs in the mushy fruit...
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• Disaster strikes: A hurricane washes the bananas and the immature fruit flies they contain out to sea. The banana bunch eventually washes up on an island off the coast of the mainland. The fruit flies mature and emerge from their slimy nursery onto the lonely island. The two portions of the population, mainland and island, are now too far apart for gene flow to unite them. At this point, speciation has not occurred — any fruit flies that got back to the mainland could mate and produce healthy offspring with the mainland flies.
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• The populations diverge: Ecological conditions are slightly different on the island, and the island population evolves under different selective pressures and experiences different random events than the mainland population does. Morphology, food preferences, and courtship displays change over the course of many generations of natural selection.
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• So we meet again: When another storm reintroduces the island flies to the mainland, they will not readily mate with the mainland flies since they've evolved different courtship behaviors. The few that do mate with the mainland flies, produce inviable eggs because of other genetic differences between the two populations. The lineage has split now that genes cannot flow between the populations
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• Paleontologists (pay-lee-un-TAHL-uh-jists) = scientists who study fossils, history written into stone
• The fossil record:– Provides evidence about the history of life
on Earth – Shows how species have changed over
time (evolved)
• 99% the species that have lived on Earth are extinct!!!!
• Fossils form in sedimentary layers of rock– Fossils at the top are younger than fossils
at the bottom, common sense, or relative dating
Ch. 17, The History of Life
Help!
I’m extinct. There are and will be no others like me, it’s so
tragic.
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How old are Fossils?• Relative dating is comparing fossils with other
fossils to see estimate the age of each, but it’s not very precise
• Radioactive Dating- calculating the age of fossils based on the amount of remaining radioactive isotopes they contain
Do you remember? Isotopes = an element with a different number of neutrons in its atom
Carbon-12
C6
12
Carbon-14
C6
14Radioactive!!!
How many neutrons in C-14? 8
How many neutrons in C-12?
6
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Half-Life = length of time it takes for ½ of the radioactive atoms in a sample to decay
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Geologic Time Scale
Era Period Time
Permian
Era Period Time (millions of years ago)Period Time
(millions of years ago)
290 – 245
360–290
410–360
440–410
505–440
544–505
1.8–present
65–1.8
145–65
208–145
245–208
Quaternary Vendian 650–544
Tertiary
Cretaceous
Jurassic
Triassic
Carboniferous
Devonian
Silurian
Ordovician
Cambrian
You are HERE
Which era does Tyrannosaurus Rex belong to?
Jurassic
Era
1. Paleozoic Era2. Mesozoic Era3. Cenozoic Era
Geologists divide the time between Precambrian and the present into 3 eras:
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Patterns of Evolution• Macroevolution = large-scale evolutionary
patterns occurring over long periods of time• Important topics in macroevolution:
1. Extinction = over 99% of all species that have ever lived on earth are now dead, extinct.
2. Adaptive Radiation = a single species evolving over time into diverse forms that live in different ways
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Macroevolution Cont. 3. Convergent Evolution = unrelated organisms
come to resemble one another
4. Co-evolution = process by which 2 species evolve in response to changes in each other over time
-Predator- prey pressures, what food is available, pollination, etc.
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Macroevolution Cont. 5. Punctuated equilibrium = the pattern of long
stable periods of time interrupted by brief periods of more rapid change
Hee hee! I’m coming to get you!
Yikes! I’m outta here! He’s crazy!
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Have you ever heard of survival of the fittest…What about survival of the sneakiest???
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Discussion Questions
• When it comes to crickets, what does fitness mean?
• Is calling good or bad for a cricket's fitness?
• Give some examples of selection at work in this cricket story.
• How does selection favor calling? How does selection favor not calling?
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Did you know?• Some ribbon worms will eat
themselves if they can’t find any food.
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Did you know?• Ants don't sleep.
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Did you know?
• The average person walks the equivalent of twice around the world in a lifetime.
The man who began his journey depressed and weighing more than 400 pounds has walked 2,800 miles across the United States.
It has taken 40-year-old Steve Vaught 13 months to travel from Oceanside to New York City, but he has done it. Almost.
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Did you know?• No word in the English
language rhymes with "month".
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Did you know?• The female lion does more
than 90% of the hunting while the male simply prefers to rest. !!
We already knew that though didn’t we!
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Did you know?• The grizzly bear can run as fast as
the average horse!!
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Did you know?• Why do we might feel warmer
wearing a dark-colored jacket than a light-colored one? . Dark colors absorb light energy. Light colors and white reflect light energy. When light shines on your dark jacket, the jacket fabric absorbs light energy. The absorbed light energy causes electrons in the atoms of the jacket to vibrate. This activity releases heat energy, which makes the jacket—and you—warmer. That's why we like to wear more dark colors in winter and more light colors in summer.
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Did you know?• The world's
largest rodent is the Capybara. An Amazon water hog that looks like a guinea pig, it can weigh more than 100 pounds.
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Did you know?• A dolphin is the only other
mammal that has sex for pleasure.
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Did you know?• A typical bed usually houses
over 6 billion dust mites.
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Did you know?• Many fish can change sex during
the course of their lives. Others, especially rare deep-sea fish, have both male and female sex organs.