PPT-Sexual selection can drive speciation

and extinction Major questions Why do males compete for access to females Why are females so choosy direct amp indirect benefits sexy sons good genes Except for sexrole reversed species. Speciation—Drift. Drift is important in evolution. Just because an allele is common doesn’t mean selection favored it. Speciation via drift?. Probably not.. Flies in . allopatry. , same environment never . 8.7. Starter. What is speciation?. The evolution of new species from existing species.. Learning Objectives. Define speciation. Describe geographical isolation. Explain how geographical isolation can lead to the formation of new species. EVOLUTION #1 (Group 3). Strawberry Frogs Forever. Participants: Lin Xiang. Ingo . Schlupp. Tiffany Roberts. Anne . Grippo. Jerry Farris. Facilitators: Brooke . Brian O. ’. Meara. EEB464 Fall . 2015. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lopTMhAbXoI. Initiation of speciation. Maintenance of current species. Prezygotic. Postzygotic. Zygote image © Laboratoire de Biologie de la Reproduction; Lausanne, image downloaded from . Meara. EEB464 Fall . 2017. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lopTMhAbXoI. Learning objectives. Understand factors that can lead to speciation. Consider the geography of speciation. Describe approaches to . Section 1 Vocabulary Pretest. Population Genetics. Microevolution. Gene Pool. Allele Frequency. Phenotype Frequency. Total genetic information in a population. Portion of gene copies of a given allele. Sympatric Speciation. Sympatric Speciation occurs . without. geographic isolation, thus it occurs at a local level. . There is something within the environment that keeps a single species separated into two or more distinct groups.. Learning Goal: . To explore the factors leading to the evolution of a new species. . Success Criteria:. I know I am succeeding when I can… . define the concept of speciation. identify the modes of speciation. What defines a species?. Species: a group of organisms that can . interbreed. and produce . fertile. offspring. “Biological Species Concept” . Human species?. Homo sapiens – “wise man” (large brains!). In evolutionary terms a . species . is a group of populations whose members have the potential to interbreed in nature and produce viable, fertile offspring; they do not breed successfully with other . (Unit 10, species concept. Sympatric speciation . Sympatric speciation, (from the Greek ‘same place’) involves the splitting of an ancestral species into two or more reproductively isolated groups without geographical isolation of those groups.. Science. Lesson 8: challenge answer. Investigate and make note of other species that have evolved due to parapatric speciation. . Typically seen in species of fish.. Learning intention. To know what sympatric speciation is and how it occurs. . After reading this module you should be able to. Explain . the processes of allopatric and sympatric speciation.. U. nderstand . the factors that affect the pace of . evolution.. Speciation can be allopatric or sympatric. Avneet. Singh, Steven . Ancheta. , Giovanni . Corralhejo. , Katie . Laackmann. Definition. Origin of new species in evolution. There are two general modes of speciation. Allopatric. speciation. Sympatric speciation.