Hank guides us through the process of natural selection, the key mechanism of evolution.
Table of Contents:
1) Natural Selection 1:27
2) Adaptation 2:56
3) Fitness 3:36
4) Four Principals 3:54
a. Variations 4:01
b. Heritability 4:17
c. “The Struggle for Existence” 4:25
d. Survival and Reproductive Rates 5:00
5) Biolography 5:59
6) Modes of Selection 7:40
a. Directional Selection 8:17
b. Stabilizing Selection 8:56
c. Disruptive Selection 9:27
7) Sexual Selection 10:22
8) Artificial Selection 11:24
References:
http://curiosity.discovery.com/topic/ecology-and-evolution/10-examples-natural-selection.htm
http://www.globalchange.umich.edu/globalchange1/current/lectures/selection/selection.html
http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/2010/05/03/charles-darwins-family-tree-tangled-with-inbreeding-early-death/
http://www.aibs.org/bioscience-press-releases/resources/Berra.pdf
http://faculty.clintoncc.suny.edu/faculty/michael.gregory/files/bio101/bio101lectures/NaturalSelection/natural.htm
http://www.irac-online.org/about/resistance/
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/evolution/library/01/6/l_016_09.html
http://evolution.berkeley.edu/evolibrary/article/evo_30
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