RE: Destroying the theory of evolution in one post
December 21, 2008 at 5:31 pm
(This post was last modified: December 21, 2008 at 8:34 pm by solidsquid.)
Those "changes", as I stated earlier, are, by definition, evolution:
Audesirk, Audesirk & Byers (2002):
Alters (2002):
Freeman & Herron (2004):
Curtis & Barnes (1994):
Drickamer, Vessey & Jakob (2002):
Yep, the moth example or "adaptation" as you referred to it does fit those definitions of evolution and is further categorized as microevolution which is defined as "evolution at or below the species level" (Mayr, 2001, pp. 287).
References:
Alters, S. (2000). Biology: Understanding life. (3rd ed.). Sudbury: Jones and Bartlett.
Audesirk, T., Audesirk, G. & Byers, B. (2002). Biology: Life on Earth. (6th Ed.). Upper Saddle River: Prentice Hall.
Curtis, H. and Barnes, N. (1994). Invitation to Biology. (5th ed.). New York: Worth Publishers.
Drickamer, L., Vessey, S. & Jakob, E. (2002). Animal behavior: Mechanisms, ecology, evolution. (5th ed.). New York: McGraw Hill.
Freeman, S. & Herron, J. (2004). Evolutionary Analysis. (3rd ed). Upper Saddle River: Prentice Hall.
Mayr, E. (2001). What Evolution Is. New York: Basic Books.
Audesirk, Audesirk & Byers (2002):
Quote:evolution: the descent of modern organisms with modification from preexisting life-forms; strictly speaking, any change in the proportions of different genotypes in a population from one generation to the next. (pp. G-9)
Alters (2002):
Quote:...the process of change over time by which existing populations of organisms develop from ancestral form through modification of their characteristics. (pp. G-10)
Freeman & Herron (2004):
Quote:Currently defined as changes in allele frequencies over time (pp. 772)
Curtis & Barnes (1994):
Quote:Changes in the gene pool from one generation to the next (pp. G-8).
Drickamer, Vessey & Jakob (2002):
Quote:A change in the frequency of alleles in a population over generations (pp. 394)
Yep, the moth example or "adaptation" as you referred to it does fit those definitions of evolution and is further categorized as microevolution which is defined as "evolution at or below the species level" (Mayr, 2001, pp. 287).
References:
Alters, S. (2000). Biology: Understanding life. (3rd ed.). Sudbury: Jones and Bartlett.
Audesirk, T., Audesirk, G. & Byers, B. (2002). Biology: Life on Earth. (6th Ed.). Upper Saddle River: Prentice Hall.
Curtis, H. and Barnes, N. (1994). Invitation to Biology. (5th ed.). New York: Worth Publishers.
Drickamer, L., Vessey, S. & Jakob, E. (2002). Animal behavior: Mechanisms, ecology, evolution. (5th ed.). New York: McGraw Hill.
Freeman, S. & Herron, J. (2004). Evolutionary Analysis. (3rd ed). Upper Saddle River: Prentice Hall.
Mayr, E. (2001). What Evolution Is. New York: Basic Books.
