Evolution, 4th Edition

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In February 2014, in the West Africa country Sierra Leone, the first cases were reported of the horrifying disease caused by Ebo ...

4 CHAPTER 1 mangabey monkeys, and that HIV-1 evolved from SIVcpz, the virus that infects wild chimpanzees (FIGURE 1.2) [9, 25]. ...

EvoluTIonARy BIology 5 Almost every hospital in the world treats casualties in this battle against changing opponents, but as th ...

6 CHAPTER 1 exposure to drugs—that is, are they present in unexposed bacterial populations? Do the mutations spread among differ ...

EvoluTIonARy BIology 7 and diverse kinds of characteristics. Most of this book attempts to convey these gen- eral principles, al ...

8 CHAPTER 1 populations, the populations diverge —that is, they become different from each other (e.g., as the various HIVs and ...

EvoluTIonARy BIology 9 be wrong, but the uncertainty at the frontier does not undermine the core. The main tenets of evolutionar ...

10 CHAPTER 1 In the eighteenth century, several French philosophers and naturalists sug- gested that species had arisen by natur ...

EvoluTIonARy BIology 11 a naturalist and captain’s companion on the British Navy ship h.m.s. Beagle, tasked with charting the co ...

12 CHAPTER 1 economist Thomas Malthus. Malthus argued that the rate of human population growth is greater than the rate of incre ...

EvoluTIonARy BIology 13 Alfred Russel Wallace (1823–1913). Wallace, who was collecting specimens in the Malay Archipelago, had i ...

14 CHAPTER 1 following way: “If variations useful to any organic being ever occur, assuredly individuals thus characterized will ...

EvoluTIonARy BIology 15 persists today when people speak of having Italian or Indian “blood.”) Blending white and black paints p ...

16 CHAPTER 1 Mutationist theories were advanced by some geneticists who observed that discretely different new phenotypes can ar ...

EvoluTIonARy BIology 17 were discovered. Since James Watson and Francis Crick established the structure of DNA in 1953, advances ...

18 CHAPTER 1 These are fundamental principles of evolution that emerged from the modern synthesis. Much of the rest of this book ...