BIOA01H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Maladaptation, American Pika
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Geroge williams (the pony fish"s glow : and other clues to plan and purpose in nature ) William considered pencil with ear, review the main point on pg 14 (evolution in pencil occurred because of producers changing things and choices of clients) William said evolution in ears occur as humans with better ears survived and passed down their genes) We call the role a function and feature an adaptation. Ex human ear represents an adaptation for the function of hearing. Tradeoff: fitness disadvantage: human ear, compromise between different functions. Ex rabbit with small ears in cold environment, they will prevent loss of heat, but will decrease hearing ability to making it vulnerable to heat. Life history trade off- concern the timing of life events such as maturation, reproduction and amount of resources individual invests. Life history trade-off invoke the conomic principle of allocation, which says tat resouces invested in one function are unavalaible to invest in other function.
