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Isolation Leading to Speciation…

Isolation Leading to Speciation…. Speciation - formation of two species from one species because of divergent natural selection. Difference between Geographic and Reproductive Isolation. Geographic. Reproductive. Mutation and natural selection Divergent evolution

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Isolation Leading to Speciation…

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  1. Isolation Leading to Speciation… Speciation - formation of two species from one species because of divergent natural selection

  2. Difference between Geographic and Reproductive Isolation Geographic Reproductive Mutation and natural selection Divergent evolution Change enough to not be able to interbreed • Physically separated for long periods of time • Physical barrier • Volcano/earthquake • Wind/water Can take hundreds of years… if the species is quickly reproducing. Otherwise, it takes tens of thousands to millions of years!

  3. Geographic Isolation …can lead to reproductive isolation, divergence of gene pools and speciation.

  4. Convergent evolution • Organisms have similar adaptations to similar environments, e.g. whales and sharks, bats and birds These two succulent plant genera, Euphorbia
and Astrophytum, are only distantly
related, but have independently converged
on a very similar body form.

  5. Convergent evolution

  6. Convergent evolution

  7. Divergent Evolution • Organisms are related but have different adaptations to different environments

  8. Divergent Evolution Or Adaptive Radiation

  9. Darwin’s Finches

  10. Divergent Convergent

  11. Coevolution • Refers to complex interactions that involve evolutionary adaptations between 2 species • E.g. Acacia tree and leafcutter ants, flowering plants and their pollinators

  12. Evolution and Adaptation Co-Evolution Populations of two different species interacting over a long period of time Changes in the gene pool of of one species changes the gene pool of another species Predator-Prey Relationships Plant defense mechanisms

  13. Extinction: Lights Out Extinction occurs when the population cannot adapt to changing environmental conditions. • The golden toad of Costa Rica’s Monteverde cloud forest has become extinct because of changes in climate. Figure 4-11

  14. Extinction: Lights Out 99.9 % of all species that ever existed are now extinct Figure 4-11

  15. Species and families experiencing mass extinction Bar width represents relative number of living species Millions of years ago Era Period Extinction Current extinction crisis caused by human activities. Many species are expected to become extinct within the next 50–100 years. Quaternary Today Cenozoic Tertiary Extinction 65 Cretaceous: up to 80% of ruling reptiles (dinosaurs); many marine species including many foraminiferans and mollusks. Cretaceous Mesozoic Jurassic Extinction Triassic: 35% of animal families, including many reptiles and marine mollusks. 180 Triassic Extinction Permian: 90% of animal families, including over 95% of marine species; many trees, amphibians, most bryozoans and brachiopods, all trilobites. 250 Permian Carboniferous Extinction 345 Devonian: 30% of animal families, including agnathan and placoderm fishes and many trilobites. Devonian Paleozoic Silurian Ordovician Extinction 500 Ordovician: 50% of animal families, including many trilobites. Cambrian Fig. 4-12, p. 93

  16. Extinction Background extinction Normal extinction of various species as a result of changes in local environmental conditions Mass extinction extinction resulting from catastrophic, wide-spread event in which large groups of existing species are wiped out

  17. Period of Recovery Following Extinction Adaptive radiation - Process in which numerous new species evolve to fill vacant and new ecological niches in changed environments

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