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What is Free Evolution?
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Free evolution is the idea that the natural processes of living organisms can lead to their development over time. This includes the emergence and development of new species.
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This has been proven by numerous examples such as the stickleback fish species that can thrive in saltwater or fresh water and walking stick insect types that have a preference for particular host plants. These mostly reversible traits permutations cannot explain fundamental changes to basic body plans.
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Evolution through Natural Selection
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Scientists have been fascinated by the development of all living creatures that live on our planet for many centuries. The most widely accepted explanation is Charles Darwin's natural selection, which is triggered when more well-adapted individuals live longer and reproduce more successfully than those that are less well-adapted. Over time, the population of well-adapted individuals becomes larger and eventually forms a new species.
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Natural selection is an ongoing process and involves the interaction of three factors that are: reproduction, variation and inheritance. Variation is caused by mutations and sexual reproduction, both of which increase the genetic diversity of the species. Inheritance refers the transmission of genetic characteristics, which includes both dominant and recessive genes to their offspring. Reproduction is the process of producing fertile, viable offspring which includes both sexual and asexual methods.
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All of these elements must be in balance for natural selection to occur. If, for example, a dominant gene allele allows an organism to reproduce and last longer than the recessive gene allele then the dominant allele will become more common in a population. If the allele confers a negative advantage to survival or decreases the fertility of the population, it will go away. This process is self-reinforcing, which means that an organism with an adaptive characteristic will live and reproduce more quickly than those with a maladaptive trait. The more offspring an organism can produce, the greater its fitness which is measured by its ability to reproduce itself and survive. Individuals with favorable traits, like the long neck of the giraffe, or bright white color patterns on male peacocks are more likely to others to reproduce and survive and eventually lead to them becoming the majority.
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Natural selection is a factor in populations and not on individuals. This is an important distinction from the Lamarckian theory of evolution, which argues that animals acquire traits through use or neglect. If a giraffe stretches its neck to catch prey and its neck gets larger, then its children will inherit this characteristic. The difference in neck size between generations will continue to grow until the giraffe becomes unable to reproduce with other giraffes.
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Evolution through Genetic Drift
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Genetic drift occurs when alleles of one gene are distributed randomly in a population. Eventually, only one will be fixed (become widespread enough to not longer be eliminated through natural selection) and the other alleles drop in frequency. This can result in dominance in the extreme. The other alleles are essentially eliminated, and heterozygosity is reduced to zero. In a small number of people this could result in the total elimination of the recessive allele. Such a scenario would be known as a bottleneck effect and it is typical of the kind of evolutionary process that takes place when a large amount of individuals move to form a new group.
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A phenotypic bottleneck can also happen when the survivors of a catastrophe, such as an epidemic or a mass hunting event, are condensed within a narrow area. The survivors will share an allele that is dominant and will have the same phenotype. This could be caused by earthquakes, war or even plagues. The genetically distinct population, if it remains, could be susceptible to genetic drift.
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Walsh, Lewens, and Ariew utilize Lewens, Walsh, and Ariew use a "purely outcome-oriented" definition of drift as any departure from the expected values of differences in fitness. They provide a well-known instance of twins who are genetically identical, have identical phenotypes, and yet one is struck by lightening and dies while the other lives and reproduces.
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This kind of drift could play a very important part in the evolution of an organism. It's not the only method of evolution. The primary alternative is a process called natural selection, where the phenotypic diversity of an individual is maintained through mutation and migration.
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Stephens claims that there is a significant difference between treating the phenomenon of drift as a force or as an underlying cause, and considering other causes of evolution, such as mutation, selection, and migration as forces or causes. He argues that a causal-process account of drift allows us differentiate it from other forces, and this differentiation is crucial. He further argues that drift has both a direction, i.e., it tends to eliminate heterozygosity. It also has a size which is determined by the size of the population.
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[Evolution](https://evolutionkr.kr/) through Lamarckism
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When students in high school study biology, they are often introduced to the work of Jean-Baptiste Lamarck (1744 - 1829). His theory of evolution is often called "Lamarckism" and it states that simple organisms develop into more complex organisms by the inheritance of traits which result from an organism's natural activities, use and disuse. Lamarckism is usually illustrated with a picture of a giraffe extending its neck further to reach leaves higher up in the trees. This could cause giraffes to pass on their longer necks to offspring, who then get taller.
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Lamarck was a French zoologist and, in his lecture to begin his course on invertebrate Zoology at the Museum of Natural History in Paris on the 17th of May in 1802, he introduced an innovative concept that completely challenged the previous understanding of organic transformation. According to him, living things had evolved from inanimate matter via a series of gradual steps. Lamarck was not the only one to suggest that this could be the case but the general consensus is that he was the one having given the subject its first broad and comprehensive treatment.
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The popular narrative is that Lamarckism became an opponent to Charles Darwin's theory of evolution by natural selection, and both theories battled it out in the 19th century. Darwinism ultimately prevailed which led to what biologists refer to as the Modern Synthesis. The Modern Synthesis theory denies the possibility that acquired traits can be acquired through inheritance and instead suggests that organisms evolve through the action of environmental factors, like natural selection.
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Although Lamarck endorsed the idea of inheritance through acquired characters, and his contemporaries also spoke of this idea, it was never a major feature in any of their theories about evolution. This is largely due to the fact that it was never validated scientifically.
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However, it has been more than 200 years since Lamarck was born and in the age of genomics, there is a large amount of evidence that supports the possibility of inheritance of acquired traits. It is sometimes called "neo-Lamarckism" or, more often, epigenetic inheritance. It is a variant of evolution that is just as valid as the more well-known Neo-Darwinian model.
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Evolution through adaptation
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One of the most popular misconceptions about evolution is that it is a result of a kind of struggle to survive. This notion is not true and ignores other forces driving evolution. The struggle for survival is more precisely described as a fight to survive in a specific environment, which could include not just other organisms, but as well the physical environment.
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To understand how evolution functions it is important to think about what adaptation is. It is a feature that allows living organisms to survive in its environment and reproduce. It can be a physical structure such as feathers or fur. It could also be a characteristic of behavior, like moving into the shade during hot weather or escaping the cold at night.
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The ability of an organism to extract energy from its surroundings and interact with other organisms, as well as their physical environment is essential to its survival. The organism must possess the right genes for producing offspring and to be able to access enough food and resources. The organism should be able to reproduce itself at the rate that is suitable for its specific niche.
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These elements, along with mutations and gene flow can cause an alteration in the ratio of different alleles within the gene pool of a population. Over time, this change in allele frequencies can lead to the emergence of new traits, and eventually new species.
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Many of the characteristics we admire about animals and plants are adaptations, such as lung or gills for removing oxygen from the air, feathers or fur to protect themselves and long legs for running away from predators and camouflage to hide. However, a complete understanding of adaptation requires a keen eye to the distinction between physiological and behavioral traits.
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Physiological traits like the thick fur and gills are physical characteristics. Behavior adaptations aren't like the tendency of animals to seek out companionship or move into the shade in hot weather. Furthermore, it is important to remember that a lack of thought is not a reason to make something an adaptation. In fact, failing to think about the consequences of a decision can render it unadaptable, despite the fact that it might appear logical or even necessary.
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