1. niche?What is aA niche is the is the role played by an organism in an ecosystem. Eg: The ecological niche of a trees in a yard is absorbing light, water and nutrients,…

1. The neutral theory • The neutral theory and its predictions for levels of polymorphism and rates of divergence. • The nearly neutral theory 1 2. There is much genetic…

3 ! ! ! ! ! 8.00 Registration 9.00 Welcome reception SESS ION IN HUMAN EVOLUTION Chair: Paulo Gama MOTA 09.30 Plenary Session - The phylogenetic position of Homo antecessor…

Slide 1 Chapter 9 Slide 2 1. Natural selection can change allele frequencies in the next generation, but it does not drive genotype frequencies away from predicted values…

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Slide 1 One-locus diploid model Goals: Predict the outcome of selection: when will it result in fixation, when in polymorphism Understand the effect of dominance on the rate…

Slide 1 Salit Kark The Biodiversity Research Group Department of Evolution, Systematics and Ecology The Silberman Institute of Life Sciences The Hebrew University of Jerusalem…

Slide 1 Katie Bowden Scotty Frazier Elaine Matteucci Melissa Ortiz Slide 2  Glass, D. J. (2012). Evolutionary clinical psychology, broadly construed: Perspectives on obsessive-compulsive…

In the deterministic model, the time till fixation depends on the selective advantage, but fixation is guaranteed. Only in case the heterozygote has an advantage (=balancing…

Maintaining Variation Sexual selection Balanced polymorphism Sexual Selection Most species have distinctively male and female phenotypes: ____________________ One of the…