Evolution, 4th Edition

EvoluTion And SoCiETy 579 For instance, Mendel’s laws of assortment and independent segregation, which initiated modern genetics ...

580 CHAPTER 22 tetrapods (see Chapter 17), birds (see Chapter 16), and mammals (see Chapter 20). Critically important intermedia ...

Failures of the argument from design Since God cannot be known directly, theologians such as Thomas Aquinas have long attempted ...

582 CHAPTER 22 world; so, as the philosopher Leibniz said, this must be “the best of all possible worlds.” (His phrase was merci ...

EvoluTion And SoCiETy 583 virus (HIV), ill fit our concept of an intelligent, kindly designer, but they are easily explained by ...

584 CHAPTER 22 major processes of long-term evolution, anagenesis (changes in characters within lin- eages) and cladogenesis (or ...

EvoluTion And SoCiETy 585 models are the basis of mapping genes and mutations in human and other popula- tions, for example in g ...

586 CHAPTER 22 Agronomists should heed what evolutionary biologists have long known: that genetic diversity is essential for a p ...

EvoluTion And SoCiETy 587 pest. Likewise, herbivorous insects used to control weeds or invasive plants must be screened to be su ...

588 CHAPTER 22 make indispensable contributions to conservation efforts. They use phylogenetic information to determine where po ...

EvoluTion And SoCiETy 589 Health and medicine The direct and indirect applications of evolutionary biology are probably more num ...

590 CHAPTER 22 diseases, acquired from domesticated animals; and sedentary life in villages created environmental conditions suc ...

EvoluTion And SoCiETy 591 they become apparent; furthermore, a cancer often has had multiple origins. Ani- mals have evolved sev ...

592 CHAPTER 22 In Chapter 13 we described the conditions under which parasites (including pathogenic microbes) are expected to e ...

EvoluTion And SoCiETy 593 2016, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration instituted a policy to phase out the use of antibiotics fo ...

594 CHAPTER 22 Today, both biologists and many social scientists recognize that human behav- iors are affected both by our genet ...

EvoluTion And SoCiETy 595 within populations does not mean that differences among populations have a genetic basis, because the ...

596 CHAPTER 22 Human behavior: Evolution and culture Darwin devoted a book, The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals [3 ...

EvoluTion And SoCiETy 597 explain polygyny in birds, Monique Borgerhoff-Mulder proposed, and found evi- dence, that women decide ...

598 CHAPTER 22 and genome studies are revealing many genes that have undergone recent selec- tion that is thought to stem from c ...