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Speciation

Speciation. Family Trees Show relationships between species. Human Evolution. Humans did not evolve from chimpanzee. Humans and chimps share a common ancestor. Defining a Species.

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Speciation

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  1. Speciation Family Trees Show relationships between species.

  2. Human Evolution • Humans did not evolve from chimpanzee. Humans and chimps share a common ancestor.

  3. Defining a Species • A species is often defined as a group of individuals that actually or potentially interbreed in nature. In this sense, a species is the biggest gene pool possible under natural conditions. • For example, these happy face spiders look different, but since they can interbreed, they are considered the same species: Theridiongrallator.

  4. Defining Speciation • Speciation is a lineage-splitting event that produces two or more separate species. • Branching point on the tree, is a speciation event. • At that point genetic changes resulted in two separate fruit fly lineages, where previously there had just been one lineage. But why and how did it happen?

  5. Types of Evolution

  6. Convergent Evolution • the independent evolution of similar structures in species, often due to similar lifestyles and selection pressures.

  7. Divergent Evolution

  8. Analogous Structures • Separate evolutionary origins • Similar because they evolved to serve the same function. (they both fly) • Analogies are the result of convergent evolution.

  9. Birds and BatsDo not share common ancestor

  10. Homologies • Characters in different organisms that are similar because they were inherited from a common ancestor • Birds, bats, mice, and crocodiles all have four limbs. Sharks and bony fish do not.

  11. Geographic Isolation Flies are living on A group of Banana’s A storm carries them To a different island The flies are separated And can no longer breed With the mainland flies

  12. Reproductive isolation • The evolution of different mating location, mating time, or mating rituals:Genetically-based changes to these aspects of mating could complete the process of reproductive isolation and speciation.

  13. Punctuated Equilibrium • Generally Evolution is slow, changing over millions of years. • Sometimes a rapid change in the environment results in burst of new species.

  14. Adaptive Radiation • Organism’s that share a common ancestor and adaptive to different environments.

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