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10 Cards in this Set
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What do you consider to be the essential distinction between natural selecction and evolution?
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What was the contribution of Malthus to Darwin's and Wallace's ideas about evolution?
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Why is the 'survival of the fittest' an unsatisfactory description of natural selection?
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What is the essential difference between natural selection and hte selection practiced by plan and animal breeders?
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What are reciprocal transplants? Why are they so useful in ecological studies?
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Is sexual selection, as practiced by guppies, different from or just part of natural selection?
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Review the utility and applicability of the biospecies concept to a range of groups, including a common species of plant, a rare animal species of conservation interest and bacteria living in the soil.
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What is it about the Galapagos finches that has made them such ideal material for hte study of evolution?
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What is the difference between convergnt and parallel evolution?
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The process of evolution can be interpreted as optimizing the fit between organisms and their environment or as narrowing and constraining what they can do. Discuss whether there is a conflict between these interpretations.
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