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Apr 9, 2009 · Natural selection is one of the central mechanisms of evolutionary change and is the process responsible for the evolution of adaptive features. Without a working knowledge of natural selection, it is impossible to understand how or why living things have come to exhibit their diversity and complexity. An understanding of natural selection also is becoming increasingly relevant in practical ...
- T. Ryan Gregory
- rgregory@uoguelph.ca
- 2009
Oct 19, 2023 · Vocabulary. In evolutionary theory, adaptation is the biological mechanism by which organisms adjust to new environments or to changes in their current environment. Although scientists discussed adaptation prior to the 1800s, it was not until then that Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace developed the theory of natural selection.
Feb 1, 2005 · Theoretical studies of adaptation have exploded over the past decade. This work has been inspired by recent, surprising findings in the experimental study of adaptation. For example, morphological ...
- H. Allen Orr
- 2005
Oct 10, 2017 · The purpose of adaptation. Darwinism is a theory of the process of adaptation, i.e. the appearance of design in the biological world. The problem of how to explain adaptation is an ancient one, and it famously provided the basis for William Paley's [1] argument for the existence of an intelligent, divine designer.
- Andy Gardner
- 10.1098/rsfs.2017.0005
- 2017
- Interface Focus. 2017 Oct 6; 7(5): 20170005.
Oct 25, 2024 · Evolution - Natural Selection, Adaptation, Genetics: The central argument of Darwin’s theory of evolution starts with the existence of hereditary variation. Experience with animal and plant breeding had demonstrated to Darwin that variations can be developed that are “useful to man.” So, he reasoned, variations must occur in nature that are favourable or useful in some way to the ...
- Francisco Jose Ayala
Positive natural selection, or the tendency of beneficial traits to increase in prevalence (frequency) in a population, is the driving force behind adaptive evolution. For a trait to undergo ...
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Abstract. Adaptive evolution is shaped by the interaction of population genetics, natural selection and underlying network and biochemical constraints. Variation created by mutation, the raw material for evolutionary change, is translated into phenotypes by flux through metabolic pathways and by the topography and dynamics of molecular networks.
