ANTH 101 1st Edition Lecture 6 Outline of Last Lecture I Natural Selection II Darwin s Explanation of Biological Evolution III Aptation vs Adaptation IV Principle of Segregation V Law of Segregation VI Mendel VII Vocabulary Outline of Current Lecture II Evolution Group Class Discussion III Homework IV What Can Evolution Tell Us About Human Variation V Vocabulary VI Evolutionary Processes Current Lecture II Evolution Group Class Discussion change over time walking on two feet originating from one prediction of how we will evolve in the future global warming due to the industrial revolution CO2 III Homework A Read Chapter 3 pages 57 80 by Wednesday NO CLASS MONDAY IV What Can Evolution Tell Us About Human Variation A microevolution short term These notes represent a detailed interpretation of the professor s lecture GradeBuddy is best used as a supplement to your own notes not as a substitute B macroevolution long term new species V Vocabulary A Species a reproductive community of populations that occupies a specific niche in nature reproductively isolated from others B Gene Pool all the genes in the bodies of all members of a given species or of a population of species C Gene Frequency the frequency of occurrence of the variants of particular genes within a gene pool D Population Genetics field that uses statistical analysis to study short term evolutionary change in large populations VI Evolutionary Processes A Natural Selection two step mechanistic explanation of how descent with modification takes place B Mutation introduces genetic variation into a breeding population C Gene Flow the exchange of genes that occurs when a given population experiences a sudden expansion due to in migration Migration movement of breeding individuals into or out of isolated populations D Genetic Drift random changes in gene frequencies from one generation to the next due to a sudden reduction in population size bottleneck E Non Random Mating when mate selection is based on traits that are chosen for or not animals select mates reproduction is not random
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