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What is Free Evolution?<br><br>Free evolution is the idea that natural processes can cause organisms to evolve over time. This includes the development of new species as well as the transformation of the appearance of existing species.<br><br>This has been demonstrated by many examples such as the stickleback fish species that can thrive in salt or fresh water, and walking stick insect varieties that are apprehensive about particular host plants. These mostly reversible traits permutations do not explain the fundamental changes in basic body plans.<br><br>Evolution through Natural Selection<br><br>The development of the myriad living creatures on Earth is a mystery that has fascinated scientists for many centuries. Charles Darwin's natural selectivity is the best-established explanation. This is because individuals who are better-adapted have more success in reproduction and survival than those who are less well-adapted. Over time, the population of well-adapted individuals grows and eventually creates an entirely new species.<br><br>Natural selection is an ongoing process that is characterized by the interaction of three factors: variation, inheritance and reproduction. Variation is caused by mutations and sexual reproduction, both of which increase the genetic diversity of an animal species. Inheritance is the term used to describe the transmission of a person's genetic characteristics, which includes recessive and dominant genes and their offspring. Reproduction is the generation of viable, fertile offspring, which includes both sexual and asexual methods.<br><br>All of these variables have to be in equilibrium to allow natural selection to take place. For instance, if the dominant allele of a gene causes an organism to survive and reproduce more frequently than the recessive one, the dominant allele will become more prominent in the population. However, if the gene confers a disadvantage in survival or decreases fertility, it will disappear from the population. The process is self-reinforcing, which means that an organism with an adaptive characteristic will live and reproduce much more than those with a maladaptive trait. The more offspring that an organism has, the greater its fitness, which is measured by its capacity to reproduce and survive. People with good traits, like having a longer neck in giraffes or bright white patterns of color in male peacocks are more likely to be able to survive and create offspring, so they will make up the majority of the population in the future.<br><br>Natural selection is only a force for populations, not individual organisms. This is a major distinction from the Lamarckian theory of evolution which claims that animals acquire traits through use or disuse. If a giraffe stretches its neck to reach prey and its neck gets larger, then its children will inherit this characteristic. The length difference between generations will continue until the giraffe's neck gets too long that it can no longer breed with other giraffes.<br><br>Evolution through Genetic Drift<br><br>In genetic drift, the alleles at a gene may be at different frequencies in a population due to random events. In the end, only one will be fixed (become common enough that it can no more be eliminated through natural selection) and the other alleles decrease in frequency. In the extreme this, it leads to dominance of a single allele. The other alleles are essentially eliminated, and heterozygosity decreases to zero. In a small number of people, this could lead to the total elimination of recessive alleles. This is known as the bottleneck effect and is typical of the evolutionary process that occurs whenever an enormous number of individuals move to form a population.<br><br>A phenotypic bottleneck can also occur when survivors of a disaster such as an outbreak or mass hunt incident are concentrated in a small area. The survivors will carry an dominant allele, and will have the same phenotype. This situation might be caused by a war, an earthquake or [https://anzforum.com/home.php?mod=space&uid=2617322 무료 에볼루션] even a cholera outbreak. Whatever the reason, the genetically distinct population that is left might be susceptible to genetic drift.<br><br>Walsh Lewens, Walsh and Ariew define drift as a deviation from the expected values due to differences in fitness. They provide the famous case of twins who are genetically identical and share the same phenotype. However, one is struck by lightning and dies, but the other lives to reproduce.<br><br>This type of drift can play a significant part in the evolution of an organism. It's not the only method of evolution. The main alternative is to use a process known as natural selection, where the phenotypic diversity of the population is maintained through mutation and migration.<br><br>Stephens argues that there is a big difference between treating the phenomenon of drift as a force or as a cause and treating other causes of evolution like selection, mutation, and migration as forces or [http://bbs.darkml.net/home.php?mod=space&uid=8056609 에볼루션 바카라 무료체험] causes. He claims that a causal-process account of drift allows us distinguish it from other forces and that this distinction is essential. He also argues that drift has both direction, i.e., it tends to reduce heterozygosity. It also has a size which is determined by population size.<br><br>Evolution by Lamarckism<br><br>In high school, students take biology classes, they are frequently introduced to the work of Jean-Baptiste Lamarck (1744 - 1829). His theory of evolution is commonly called "Lamarckism" and it asserts that simple organisms evolve into more complex organisms through the inherited characteristics that result from an organism's natural activities, use and disuse. Lamarckism is illustrated through the giraffe's neck being extended to reach higher levels of leaves in the trees. This causes the longer necks of giraffes to be passed on to their offspring who would then grow even taller.<br><br>Lamarck was a French zoologist and, in his lecture to begin his course on invertebrate zoology held at the Museum of Natural History in Paris on the 17th May 1802, he presented an innovative concept that completely challenged the previous understanding of organic transformation. In his opinion living things had evolved from inanimate matter through an escalating series of steps. Lamarck was not the first to make this claim however he was widely thought of as the first to provide the subject a comprehensive and general treatment.<br><br>The predominant story is that Charles Darwin's theory of evolution by natural selection and Lamarckism were competing in the 19th century. Darwinism ultimately prevailed which led to what biologists call the Modern Synthesis. This theory denies acquired characteristics are passed down from generation to generation and instead argues that organisms evolve through the influence of environment factors, such as Natural Selection.<br><br>While Lamarck supported the notion of inheritance by acquired characters, and his contemporaries also spoke of this idea however, [https://www.footballzaa.com/out.php?url=https://rangeliquor4.werite.net/a-step-by-step-guide-to-selecting-your-evolution-casino 에볼루션 게이밍]카지노 ([http://bioimagingcore.be/q2a/user/touchgreek0 Read the Full Content]) it was not a major feature in any of their evolutionary theorizing. This is partly due to the fact that it was never tested scientifically.<br><br>It's been more than 200 year since Lamarck's birth and in the field of genomics, there is an increasing body of evidence that supports the heritability acquired characteristics. This is sometimes called "neo-Lamarckism" or, more commonly, epigenetic inheritance. This is a model that is just as valid as the popular neodarwinian model.<br><br>Evolution through the process of adaptation<br><br>One of the most popular misconceptions about evolution is being driven by a fight for survival. This view is inaccurate and overlooks the other forces that determine the rate of evolution. The fight for survival can be better described as a fight to survive in a particular environment. This could include not just other organisms but also the physical environment itself.<br><br>To understand how evolution works, it is helpful to consider what adaptation is. Adaptation is any feature that allows a living organism to live in its environment and reproduce. It can be a physical structure like feathers or fur. 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