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Chapter 22
Descent with Modification:
A Darwinian View of Life
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Biology
Eighth Edition
Neil Campbell and Jane Reece
•Darwin noted that current
species are descendants of
ancestral species
•Evolution can be defined by
Darwin’s phrase descent with
modification
•Evolution can be viewed as
both a pattern and a process
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Fig. 22-2
Linnaeus (classification)
Hutton (gradual geologic change)
Lamarck (species can change)
Malthus (population limits)
Cuvier (fossils, extinction)
Lyell (modern geology)
Darwin (evolution, natural selection)
Wallace (evolution, natural selection)
American Revolution
French Revolution
U.S. Civil War
1800
1900
1750
1850
1795 Hutton proposes his theory of gradualism.
1798 Malthus publishes “Essay on the Principle of Population.”
1809 Lamarck publishes his hypothesis of evolution.
1830 Lyell publishes Principles of Geology.
1831–1836 Darwin travels around the world on HMS Beagle.
1837 Darwin begins his notebooks.
1844 Darwin writes essay on descent with modification.
1858 Wallace sends his hypothesis to Darwin.
1859 The Origin of Species is published.
Scala Naturae and Classification of Species
• Aristotle viewed species as fixed and arranged
them on a scala naturae.
– The Old Testament holds that species were
individually designed by God and therefore
perfect
• Carolus Linnaeus interpreted organismal
adaptations as evidence that the Creator had
designed each species for a specific purpose.
• founder of taxonomy - branch of biology
concerned with classifying organisms
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Ideas About Change over Time
• Fossils - remains or traces of organisms from
the past, usually found in sedimentary rock,
which appears in layers or strata
•Paleontology, the study of fossils
•largely developed by French scientist
Georges Cuvier - catastrophism,
speculating that each boundary between
strata represents a catastrophe
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Layers of deposited
sediment
Younger stratum
with more recent
fossils
Older stratum
with older fossils
• Geologists James Hutton and Charles Lyell
perceived that changes in Earth’s surface can
result from slow continuous actions still operating
today
• Lyell’s = uniformitarianism - mechanisms of
change are constant over time
• Lamarck = species evolve through use and disuse
of body parts and the inheritance of acquired
characteristics (unsupported by evidence)
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Fig. 22-6
(a) Cactus-eater
(c) Seed-eater
Darwin perceived
adaptation to the
environment and
the origin of new
species as
closely related
(b) Insect-eater
processes
Biologists have
concluded that
this is indeed
what happened to
the Galápagos
finches
• In 1844, Darwin wrote an essay on the origin of species and
natural selection but did not introduce his theory publicly
• In June 1858, Darwin received a manuscript from Alfred
Russell Wallace, who had developed a theory of natural
selection similar to Darwin’s
• Darwin quickly finished The Origin of Species and published it
the next year
• Darwin developed two main ideas:
– Descent with modification explains life’s unity and diversity
– Natural selection is a cause of adaptive evolution
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Fig. 22-8
Hyracoidea
(Hyraxes)
Sirenia
(Manatees
and relatives)
Moeritherium
Barytherium
Deinotherium
Mammut
Platybelodon
Stegodon
Mammuthus
Elephas maximus
(Asia)
Loxodonta
africana
(Africa)
Loxodonta cyclotis
(Africa)
34
24
Millions of years ago
5.5
2 104 0
Years ago
Artificial Selection, Natural Selection, and
Adaptation
• Darwin noted that humans have modified other
species by selecting and breeding individuals
with desired traits, a process called artificial
selection
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Terminal
bud
Lateral
buds
Cabbage
Brussels sprouts
Flower
clusters
Leaves
Kale
Cauliflower
Stem
Wild mustard
Flowers
and stems
Broccoli
Kohlrabi
Darwin then described four observations of
nature and from these drew two inferences
• Observation #1: Members of a population often
vary greatly in their traits
• Observation #2: Traits are inherited from parents
to offspring
• Observation #3: All species are capable of
producing more offspring than the environment
can support
• Observation #4: Owing to lack of food or other
resources, many of these offspring do not survive
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• Inference #1: Individuals whose inherited traits
give them a higher probability of surviving and
reproducing in a given environment tend to
leave more offspring than other individuals
• Inference #2: This unequal ability of individuals
to survive and reproduce will lead to the
accumulation of favorable traits in the
population over generations
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• Thomas Malthus who noted the potential for
human population to increase faster than food
supplies and other resources
• If some heritable traits are advantageous, these
will accumulate in the population, and this will
increase the frequency of individuals with
adaptations
• This process explains the match between
organisms and their environment
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Natural Selection: A Summary
• Individuals with certain heritable characteristics survive and
reproduce at a higher rate than other individuals
• Natural selection increases the adaptation of organisms to their
environment over time or may give rise to new species
• Note that individuals do not evolve; populations evolve over time
• Natural selection can only increase or decrease heritable traits in a
population
• Natural selection does not create new traits, but edits or selects for
traits already present in the population
• The local environment determines which traits will be selected for or
selected against in any specific population
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Fig. 22-12
(a) A flower mantid
in Malaysia
(b) A stick mantid
in Africa
Fig. 22-16
The fossil
record
provides
evidence of (a) Pakicetus (terrestrial)
the
extinction
of species,
the origin of
new groups, (b) Rhodocetus (predominantly aquatic)
and
Pelvis and
changes
hind limb
within
(c) Dorudon (fully aquatic)
groups over
time
Pelvis and
hind limb
(d) Balaena
(recent whale ancestor)
Homology
• Homology - similarity resulting from common
ancestry
• Homologous structures - anatomical
resemblances that represent variations on a
structural theme present in a common ancestor
• Comparative embryology reveals anatomical
homologies not visible in adult organisms
• Vestigial structures - remnants of features that
served important functions in the organism’s
ancestors
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Homologous structures
Humerus
Radius
Ulna
Carpals
Metacarpals
Phalanges
Human
Cat
Whale
Bat
Fig. 22-18
Anatomical similarities
Pharyngeal
pouches
Post-anal
tail
Chick embryo (LM)
Human embryo
Homologies and “Tree Thinking”
• The Darwinian concept of an evolutionary tree of
life can explain homologies
– hypotheses about the relationships among
different groups
– can be made using different types of data, for
example, anatomical and DNA sequence data
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Fig. 22-19
Branch point
(common ancestor)
Lungfishes
Amphibians
1
Mammals
2
Tetrapod limbs
Amnion
Lizards
and snakes
3
4
Homologous
characteristic
Crocodiles
Ostriches
6
Feathers
Hawks and
other birds
Birds
5
Convergent Evolution
• Convergent evolution - evolution of similar, or
analogous, features in distantly related groups
– Analogous traits arise when groups
independently adapt to similar environments
in similar ways
• Convergent evolution does not provide
information about ancestry
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Fig. 22-20
Sugar
glider
NORTH
AMERICA
AUSTRALIA
Convergent evolution
Flying
squirrel
Biogeography
• Biogeography - geographic distribution of
species
– Islands have many endemic species that
are often closely related to species on the
nearest mainland or island
• Earth’s continents were formerly united in a
single large continent called Pangaea, but
have since separated by continental drift.
This allows us to predict when and where
different groups evolved
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