Evolution, Natural and Sexual Selection, and Their Influences on the Sciences
Sexual selection and the evolution of beauty: two views
... I first discuss Ryan’s book, a balanced, comprehen- sive account of the bases of male attractiveness and female choice. Working with tungara frogs in Panama, he was first to document decisive influence of female choice ...
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Phenotypic plasticity, sexual selection and the evolution of colour patterns
... environmental influences affect similar developmental processes (Zuckerkandl and Villet, 1998; West- Eberhard, ...of evolution it will have less effect on directions of ...the evolution of ...
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Variation in sexual dimorphism and assortative mating do not predict genetic divergence in the sexually dimorphic Goodeid fish Girardinichthys multiradiatus
... However, natural selection may act to promote or constrain divergence on dimorphic traits, potentially making such measures ...elaborate sexual dimorphism, and niche partitioning may occur between ...
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Elementary education majors’ views on evolution: A comparison of undergraduate majors understanding of natural selection and acceptance of evolution.
... life sciences and is expected to be taught in grades K-12 (NRC, ...to evolution are contained to a greater extent at the middle and high school level, they are also present for grades ...to evolution ...
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Phenotypic plasticity across natural- and sexual-selection gradients in a reef fish
... the evolution of animals (Maynard Smith and Szathmary ...the evolution of animal cognition, and that; 2) individuals can often increase their expected lifetime reproductive success by forming- or remaining ...
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Neurobiological foundations of aesthetics and art
... in evolution, and that this might contribute to differences in the ways in which they are ...that sexual selection is the underlying process? I suggest that this would not necessarily be the ...by ...
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Biological species is the only possible form of existence for higher organisms: the evolutionary meaning of sexual reproduction
... of sexual species as the highest form of biological existence is ...the natural selection to act upon is dominated in most discussions of the biological meaning of the sexual ...further ...
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Foraging ecology, sexual selection, and divergence in sunfish (Lepomis spp.)
... under selection during the evolution of foraging ...disruptive natural selection and reproductive isolation is occurring in the Ashby Lake pumpkinseed, I predict that functional loci related ...
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An Experimental Demonstration of Fisher's Principle: Evolution of Sexual Proportion by Natural Selection
... fast evolution (the 1:1 equilib- rium was attained in one to six generations; Figure 3), probably due to sex-chromosome ...for sexual proportion was provided by its three sex-chromosomes (XX,XW, and WY are ...
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Models of Mating System Evolution: Gamete Competition, Hermaphroditism and Sexual Selection
... the evolution of mating systems using analytic and simulation ...frequency-dependent selection and should evolve most easily when po- tential mates are encountered frequently (Paper ...of natural ...
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Evolution of divergent female mating preference in response to experimental sexual selection
... male–female sexual interactions have been inves- tigated in our selection lines, as well as other Drosophila ...of sexual conflict may thus have driven the ...
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Natural Selection as a Cause: Probability, Chance, and Selective Biases.
... biological evolution? It does not really ...a selection or a drift (non-selection) ...of selection or of drift ...biological evolution, it seems as though you are faced with ...
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Natural Selection Drives Drosophila Immune System Evolution
... frequency-dependent selection) were common in im- Polymorphic-site allele distributions: Several statistics munity proteins, one might predict that compared to are available for determining whether the ...
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5-EvolutionReview.pdf
... Explain the theory of evolution by natural selection as presented by Darwin. Each of the following relates to an aspect of evolution by natural selection[r] ...
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Historical perspective on the development and evolution of eyes and photoreceptors
... by natural selection, seems, I freely confess, absurd in the highest ...by natural selection, though insuperable by our imagination, should not be considered as subversive of the ...eye ...
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Sex biased dispersal, kin selection and the evolution of sexual conflict
... to selection is pro- portional to marginal fitness, with the same constant of proportionality for both male and female traits (see Ap- pendix for more details) – we may follow Rankin’s approach to investigate the ...
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Reproductive Biology and Speciation in Drosophila pseudoobscura
... Sexual selection is an important force driving the evolution of reproductive traits, including sperm morphology and mating ...Divergent sexual selection among populations can eventually ...
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Towards common ground in measuring acceptance of evolution and knowledge about evolution across Europe: a systematic review of the state of research
... ferent evolution acceptance instruments can sometimes lead to diverging results regarding the level of accept- ance when applied to the same ...in evolution education studies using dif- ferent instruments ...
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Light conditions affect sexual performance in a lekking tephritid fruit fly
... Environmental effects on the sensory system play an important role in the maintenance of genetic variation (Ryan, 1990; Ryan, 2007; Endler, 1993a). Signal traits and receptor organs are selected depending on ...
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Alcohol and drug use among sexual minority college students and their heterosexual counterparts: the effects of experiencing and witnessing incivility and hostility on campus
... significant: sexual minority college students were more likely than their heterosexual counterparts to experience personal incivility and ambient hostility, and these contextual stres- sors were related to greater ...
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