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What is Free Evolution?

Free evolution is the idea that natural processes can lead to the development of organisms over time. This includes the creation of new species and alteration of the appearance of existing ones.

This has been demonstrated by many examples such as the stickleback fish species that can be found in salt or fresh water, and walking stick insect types that prefer specific host plants. These mostly reversible traits permutations are not able to explain fundamental changes to basic body plans.

Evolution through Natural Selection

The evolution of the myriad living creatures on Earth is a mystery that has fascinated scientists for centuries. The best-established explanation is Charles Darwin's natural selection, which occurs when individuals that are better adapted survive and reproduce more successfully than those who are less well adapted. Over time, the population of individuals who are well-adapted grows and eventually creates an entirely new species.

Natural selection is a cyclical process that is characterized by the interaction of three factors that are inheritance, variation and reproduction. Mutation and sexual reproduction increase genetic diversity in an animal species. Inheritance is the passing of a person's genetic traits to their offspring, which includes both dominant and recessive alleles. Reproduction is the process of creating fertile, viable offspring. This can be accomplished via sexual or asexual methods.

All of these factors have to be in equilibrium to allow natural selection to take place. For instance when an allele that is dominant at one gene can cause an organism to live and reproduce more frequently than the recessive allele, the dominant allele will be more prevalent in the population. If the allele confers a negative advantage to survival or decreases the fertility of the population, 에볼루션 무료체험 it will disappear. This process is self-reinforcing meaning that an organism with an adaptive trait will live and reproduce far more effectively than one with a maladaptive characteristic. The higher the level of fitness an organism has as measured by its capacity to reproduce and survive, is the more offspring it will produce. People with desirable traits, like the long neck of Giraffes, or the bright white patterns on male peacocks are more likely than others to reproduce and survive which eventually leads to them becoming the majority.

Natural selection is a factor in populations and not on individuals. This is a major distinction from the Lamarckian theory of evolution which argues that animals acquire characteristics through use or neglect. If a giraffe expands its neck to catch prey, and the neck becomes larger, 에볼루션카지노사이트 then its children will inherit this characteristic. The differences in neck length between generations will persist until the neck of the giraffe becomes too long that it can not breed with other giraffes.

Evolution by Genetic Drift

Genetic drift occurs when the alleles of the same gene are randomly distributed in a group. In the end, one will attain fixation (become so widespread that it is unable to be eliminated by natural selection) and other alleles will fall to lower frequency. In the extreme it can lead to one allele dominance. Other alleles have been basically eliminated and heterozygosity has diminished to zero. In a small population it could result in the complete elimination of recessive gene. This scenario is known as a bottleneck effect and it is typical of evolutionary process that occurs when a large number of individuals move to form a new population.

A phenotypic 'bottleneck' can also occur when the survivors of a disaster such as an outbreak or mass hunting incident are concentrated in the same area. The remaining individuals will be largely homozygous for the dominant allele, which means they will all have the same phenotype and consequently have the same fitness characteristics. This can be caused by war, earthquakes or even a plague. Whatever the reason the genetically distinct population that remains is prone to genetic drift.

Walsh, Lewens and Ariew define drift as a deviation from the expected value due to differences in fitness. They provide a well-known instance of twins who are genetically identical and have identical phenotypes and yet one is struck by lightening and dies while the other lives and reproduces.

This kind of drift can play a significant role in the evolution of an organism. This isn't the only method for evolution. The main alternative is a process known as natural selection, in which the phenotypic diversity of an individual is maintained through mutation and migration.

Stephens asserts that there is a huge difference between treating drift like an actual cause or 에볼루션 바카라사이트 force, and treating other causes such as migration and selection mutation as forces and causes. He argues that a causal process account of drift allows us to distinguish it from other forces, and this distinction is vital. He also claims that drift has a direction, that is it tends to reduce heterozygosity. It also has a magnitude, which is determined by the size of the population.

Evolution by Lamarckism

Biology students in high school are often introduced to Jean-Baptiste Lamarck's (1744-1829) work. His theory of evolution, 에볼루션사이트 also referred to as "Lamarckism" is based on the idea that simple organisms develop into more complex organisms taking on traits that result from the use and abuse of an organism. Lamarckism is illustrated through the giraffe's neck being extended to reach higher branches in the trees. This would cause giraffes to give their longer necks to offspring, which then grow even taller.

Lamarck was a French Zoologist. In his opening lecture for his course on invertebrate zoology at the Museum of Natural History in Paris on the 17th May 1802, he presented an original idea that fundamentally challenged the conventional wisdom about organic transformation. In his opinion living things had evolved from inanimate matter via an escalating series of steps. Lamarck was not the first to make this claim but he was considered to be the first to offer the subject a comprehensive and general overview.

The popular narrative is that Lamarckism grew into a rival to Charles Darwin's theory of evolutionary natural selection, and both theories battled each other in the 19th century. Darwinism ultimately won and led to what biologists refer to as the Modern Synthesis. This theory denies the possibility that acquired traits can be inherited and instead suggests that organisms evolve through the action of environmental factors, including natural selection.

Lamarck and his contemporaries believed in the idea that acquired characters could be passed on to future generations. However, this concept was never a central part of any of their evolutionary theories. This is due to the fact that it was never scientifically validated.

But it is now more than 200 years since Lamarck was born and, in the age of genomics there is a huge amount of evidence that supports the heritability of acquired characteristics. This is also known as "neo Lamarckism", or more generally epigenetic inheritance. It is a version of evolution that is as valid as the more popular neo-Darwinian model.

Evolution through Adaptation

One of the most commonly-held misconceptions about evolution is its being driven by a struggle for survival. In reality, this notion misrepresents natural selection and ignores the other forces that determine the rate of evolution. The fight for survival can be more precisely described as a fight to survive in a specific environment, which may be a struggle that involves not only other organisms, but also the physical environment itself.

To understand how evolution works it is beneficial to consider what adaptation is. The term "adaptation" refers to any characteristic that allows a living organism to survive in its environment and reproduce. It can be a physiological structure, such as feathers or fur or a behavioral characteristic such as a tendency to move to the shade during the heat or leaving at night to avoid the cold.

The ability of an organism to draw energy from its surroundings and interact with other organisms and their physical environment is essential to its survival. The organism must possess the right genes to create offspring, and 에볼루션카지노 it must be able to locate enough food and other resources. The organism should also be able to reproduce itself at a rate that is optimal for its niche.

These elements, in conjunction with gene flow and mutation result in changes in the ratio of alleles (different types of a gene) in the population's gene pool. Over time, this change in allele frequencies could result in the emergence of new traits and eventually new species.

Many of the characteristics we admire in plants and animals are adaptations. For example, lungs or gills that extract oxygen from air feathers and fur for insulation, long legs to run away from predators, and camouflage to hide. To understand the concept of adaptation, it is important to discern between physiological and behavioral characteristics.

Physical characteristics like thick fur and gills are physical characteristics. Behavior adaptations aren't like the tendency of animals to seek out companionship or retreat into shade during hot temperatures. Additionally it is important to note that a lack of thought is not a reason to make something an adaptation. A failure to consider the consequences of a decision even if it appears to be rational, could make it unadaptive.