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RAZD Member (Idle past 1633 days) Posts: 20714 From: the other end of the sidewalk Joined: |
quote: Sexual selection. Enjoyby our ability to understand Rebel☮American☆Zen☯Deist ... to learn ... to think ... to live ... to laugh ... to share. Join the effort to solve medical problems, AIDS/HIV, Cancer and more with Team EvC! (click)
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RAZD Member (Idle past 1633 days) Posts: 20714 From: the other end of the sidewalk Joined:
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I didn't come to appreciate sexual selection as a mechanism of evolution separate from natural selection until I read The Evolution of Beauty: How Darwin's Forgotten Theory of Mate Choice Shapes the Animal World”And Us by Richard O. Prum. My pet theory is that sex is what has lead to increased intelligence in humans via more and more complex mating displays/rituals/song and dance. I also see sexual selection as a mechanism for creating stasis in a breeding population in a stable ecology. Mate selection operates at every mating opportunity, and thus can operate at a faster rate than other forms of natural selection in causing or suppressing changes to the breeding population. See Sexual Selection, Stasis, Runaway Selection, Dimorphism, & Human Evolution Enjoyby our ability to understand Rebel☮American☆Zen☯Deist ... to learn ... to think ... to live ... to laugh ... to share. Join the effort to solve medical problems, AIDS/HIV, Cancer and more with Team EvC! (click)
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RAZD Member (Idle past 1633 days) Posts: 20714 From: the other end of the sidewalk Joined: |
From A test for claimed knowledge of how macroevolution occurs, Message 705:
quote: Classification is for our use in discussions, and they are subject to change when information provides new insights.
quote: Also see Two species of crow evolving ... on this possible crow speciation in process, apparently due to coloration:
quote: Breeding populations apparently separated by sexual/mate selection.
quote: This Koinophilia is similar to what I proposed for sexual selection in Sexual Selection, Stasis, Runaway Selection, Dimorphism, & Human Evolution and my discussion on the causes of stasis in breeding populations living in stable ecological habitats. This Crow mate selection is similar to the overlap of the end of ring species like the Greenish Warbler, another place where the definition of species is problematic.by our ability to understand Rebel☮American☆Zen☯Deist ... to learn ... to think ... to live ... to laugh ... to share. Join the effort to solve medical problems, AIDS/HIV, Cancer and more with Team EvC! (click)
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RAZD Member (Idle past 1633 days) Posts: 20714 From: the other end of the sidewalk Joined: |
Of course. The black feathered population has more alleles for black feathers, and probably lots of homozygosity for black feathers at the feather loci too, while the grey population has more alleles for grey feathers and the same genetic situation. The black feathered population has correspondingly fewer alleles for grey feathers, which will eventually decrease to zero as reproductive isolation continues, and the grey population for black feathers. This ought to be elementary my dear Watson, but evo theory manages to complicate the simplest things. What is complicated in this by "evo theory" when they are saying the same thing?
And of course it makes sense to categorize sexual selection as a type of natural selection, just as I've argued that geographic isolation is a form of natural selection too, as it isolates some particular collection of alleles and breeds them together to produce a new phenotype, which is all any selective process does. Indeed, but sexual/mate selection explains observations that seem to be at odds with survival (peacocks) and why populations tend towards stasis in stable ecological environments/habitats.
And again, all this is within microevolution, it's ridiculous to make the arbitrary fact that the two populations don't interbreed into "speciation." It's nothing but two variations that happen to separate, and may possibly have a genetic barrier to interbreeding although that is not necessary. ... Of course it is microevolution -- that's where all evolutionary change occurs, within the breeding population/s. Macroevolution is just microevolution over many generations with the accumulation of changes making descendant populations different from ancestral populations. Speciation is one of the observed elements of macroevolution when two daughter populations are isolated over generations, allowing different microevolutionary paths to be taken by the daughter populations until they differ from one another. The crows are evidence of this difference in results of microevolution over generations. Lack of interbreeding is the definition of species, so when this happens it is logical to call that a speciation event.
... If it does it could be because of the greater homozygosity of the characteristic feather color in each population and the more fixed loci each has the less ability to combine the two. Indeed, the two populations have diverged from one another genetically, and this has resulted in the apparent speciation event in progress. Whether you like it or not, this is how biology defines species and speciation events. Enjoyby our ability to understand Rebel☮American☆Zen☯Deist ... to learn ... to think ... to live ... to laugh ... to share. Join the effort to solve medical problems, AIDS/HIV, Cancer and more with Team EvC! (click)
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