ANT211H5 Study Guide - Final Guide: Red Queen Hypothesis, Proximate And Ultimate Causation, Population Genetics
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Natural selection: a process that causes gradual evolution in a species, has to do with reproductive success (some species are more successful than others, variation in a population results in competition that drive natural selection. Reproductive advantage: genetic traits are passed down to offspring (50-50 split from. Proximate causation: the mechanism immediately responsible for causing. Coefficient of relatedness o in a sexual species, parent-offspring relatedness is r = 0. 5. Benefits of sex: evolutionary potential (not every offspring will pick up. Written by: d. v. d. as the environment changes, survival becomes more difficult: any stop in variation/adaptation results in the collapse of the population. Sex: the shared parenthood of two individuals of the same species. Isogamy: gametes are alike (the same size, shape etc. , some lizards are capable of asexual reproduction. Females mate with all the males to discourage infanticide. The males with the longer tails and more eye patterns got to mate with the most females - size matters.
