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e arly type galaxies and their dark matter haloes Gian Luigi Granato INAF Trieste Cinthia Ragone Figueroa Mario Abadi IATECordoba Plan Generalities on the problem Why puffingup cannot explain what we see so far. References. Hansen, N. The CMA Evolution Strategy: A Tutorial. November 24, 2010. . http://www.lri.fr/~hansen/cmatutorial.pdf. Auger, A. and Hansen, N. CMA-ES Tutorial Slides for GECCO 2011. . http://www.lri.fr/~hansen/gecco2011-CMA-ES-tutorial.pdf. Assessment Statements. Outline. . the method for dating rocks and fossils using radioisotopes, with references to . 14. C and . 40. K.. Define half-life. Deduce the approximate age of materials based on a simple decay curve for a radioisotope.. Asta. Audzijonyte. Department of Environmental Sciences. ?. Changes in fish size are caused by fishing and climate change . Changes in Atlantic cod size and maturation age. Cause 1: fisheries-induced evolution. We typically catch fastest growing and biggest fish. Psychology. What is evolutionary psychology?. It focuses on how human beings came to be who we are today. Tooby. . and . Cosmides. (1992) define evolutionary psychology as informed by the fact that the inherited structure of the human mind is the product of evolutionary processes (!). The theory of evolution is supported by evidence from . the fossil record. comparative anatomy. comparative embryology. biogeography. molecular biology. and observed evolutionary change. . Trends in hominid evolution from early ancestors to. Science. Matt McMillan, Ph.D.. Assistant Professor . Matt McMillan, Ph.D., PAS. Background. Born: San Angelo, TX. Graduated High School: Allen, TX. B.S. Animal Science TTU 1997. M.S. Animal Science ASU 2000. Stevan J. Arnold. Department of Integrative Biology. Oregon State University. Outline. Criteria for the conservation of individual species. G. L. Simpson’s modes of evolution. Evolution of body size: data. Motivation. Most powerful mode of evolution. Explains observation of Descent with Modification. Nonrandom survivorship/reproduction of individuals based on particular features of their phenotype. . Any environmental agent may be the cause of natural selection. Stevan. J. Arnold. Oregon State University. Outline. Synthesis in evolutionary biology then and now. Simpson (1944) & the ongoing synthesis in evolutionary quantitative genetics. Two examples of the ongoing synthesis (Estes & Arnold 2007, . Texas Horned Lizard. Defense Behavior Adaptations. Its horns are extensions of its cranium and contain true bone.. When threatened it will puff up its body to cause its spiny scales to protrude, which makes it hard to swallow.. xxia@uottawa.ca. http://dambe.bio.uottawa.ca. Definitions. Genome: the . entire complement of genetic material carried by an individual. Transcriptome with two definitions:. the . entire set of . transcribable sequences from the genome (operationally all RNA sequences from annotated productive genes in a genome). Charles Darwin. Jean-. Baptiste. Lamarck. Weismann. The . evolutionary theories. aims to explain the emergence of . complex living forms. from . less complex. ancestor.. for example:. Aristotle. (384-322 B.C.) believed that there had been a . I don’t expect you to know this, but knowing . the order of the geological periods can help . you make sense of what we’ll be discussing.. What helped me was this little mnemonic.. Come Over Some Day, Might Play Poker. Three. of . the Red . Queen. CfE. . Advanced Higher Biology. Unit . 2: . Organisms and Evolution. SQA mandatory key information. A change in the traits of one species acts as a selection pressure on the other species. .