BIOB51H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Pesticide Resistance, Phylogenetics, Advantageous
18 Jun 2019
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Chapter 1 an overview of evolutionary biology. Because evolutionary change occurs quickly in insects because of their short generation times, humans often continually need to develop new pesticides. 1. 2 empirical and theoretical approaches to the study of evolution. Studying the fossil record to test predictions from evolutionary biology, as well as to generate new predictions. Recording and measuring behaviors occurring in a natural population of organisms: manipulative experiments allow a scientist directly to assess how changes in one component of a system influence the other components. This allows us to examine not only correlations among data but also causality; that is, what causes what. Ideally, manipulative experiments alter only one variable at a time, so that the investigator can ascertain which changes yield what results. Chapter 2 early evolutionary ideas and darwin"s insight. It is sometimes called methodological naturalism: hypothesis testing and logic, although they were able to make the shift from supernatural to natural explanations, the early.
