What is Free Evolution?
Free evolution is the idea that the natural processes of living organisms can lead to their development over time. This includes the creation of new species and transformation of the appearance of existing ones.
This has been demonstrated by numerous examples, including stickleback fish varieties that can be found in salt or fresh water, and walking stick insect types that have a preference for specific host plants. These reversible traits cannot explain fundamental changes to the basic body plan.
Evolution by Natural Selection
The evolution of the myriad living organisms on Earth is a mystery that has fascinated scientists for decades. The most widely accepted explanation is Charles Darwin's natural selection, an evolutionary process that occurs when better-adapted individuals survive and reproduce more effectively than those that are less well-adapted. Over time, the population of well-adapted individuals grows and eventually forms an entirely new species.
Natural selection is a cyclical process that involves the interaction of three elements: variation, inheritance and reproduction. Variation is caused by mutation and sexual reproduction both of which enhance the genetic diversity within the species. Inheritance refers to the passing of a person's genetic characteristics to his or
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Natural selection is only possible when all the factors are in harmony. For example, if the dominant allele of the gene can cause an organism to live and reproduce more often than the recessive one, the dominant allele will become more common in the population. However, if the gene confers an unfavorable survival advantage or reduces fertility, it will disappear from the population. The process is self reinforcing which means that the organism with an adaptive trait will survive and reproduce more quickly than those with a maladaptive feature. The more fit an organism is, measured by its ability reproduce and survive, is the more offspring it produces. Individuals with favorable characteristics, such as having a long neck in the giraffe,
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Natural selection only affects populations, not individuals. This is a significant distinction from the Lamarckian theory of evolution, which states that animals acquire traits through usage or inaction. If a giraffe stretches its neck in order to catch prey, and the neck becomes longer, then its offspring will inherit this trait. The differences in neck size between generations will increase until the giraffe is no longer able to reproduce with other giraffes.
Evolution by Genetic Drift
In genetic drift, the alleles of a gene could be at different frequencies within a population through random events. Eventually, only one will be fixed (become common enough to no longer be eliminated by natural selection), and the other alleles will decrease in frequency. In the extreme, this leads to a single allele dominance. The other alleles are essentially eliminated, and heterozygosity decreases to zero. In a small group it could lead to the complete elimination of recessive allele. This scenario is known as a bottleneck effect and it is typical of the kind of evolutionary process that takes place when a large amount of individuals move to form a new population.
A phenotypic bottleneck can also happen when the survivors of a disaster, such as an epidemic or a mass hunting event, are condensed within a narrow area. The remaining individuals will be largely homozygous for the dominant allele, which means that they will all share the same phenotype and will therefore share the same fitness characteristics. This could be caused by conflict, earthquake or even a disease. The genetically distinct population, if it remains vulnerable to genetic drift.
Walsh Lewens, Lewens, and Ariew utilize Lewens, Walsh and Ariew employ a "purely outcome-oriented" definition of drift as any deviation from the expected values of different fitness levels. They cite a famous example of twins that are genetically identical and have identical phenotypes and yet one is struck by lightning and dies, whereas the other lives and reproduces.
This kind of drift can play a significant role in the evolution of an organism. But, it's not the only way to progress. Natural selection is the main alternative, in which mutations and migrations maintain the phenotypic diversity of the population.
Stephens argues that there is a big difference between treating the phenomenon of drift as a force or an underlying cause, and considering other causes of evolution, such as selection, mutation,
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Evolution through Lamarckism
When 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 states that simple organisms grow into more complex organisms via the inherited characteristics that are a result of an organism's natural activities usage,
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Lamarck was a French Zoologist. In his inaugural lecture for his course on invertebrate zoology at the Museum of Natural History in Paris on 17 May 1802, he presented a groundbreaking concept that radically challenged previous thinking about organic transformation. According Lamarck, living organisms evolved from inanimate material through a series of gradual steps. Lamarck was not the only one to suggest that this could be the case but his reputation is widely regarded as having given the subject its first general and
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The predominant story is that Charles Darwin's theory on natural selection and Lamarckism were rivals in the 19th Century. Darwinism eventually triumphed and led to the creation of what biologists now call the Modern Synthesis. The theory denies that acquired characteristics can be passed down and instead, it claims that organisms evolve through the selective action of environment elements, like Natural Selection.
Lamarck and his contemporaries endorsed the idea that acquired characters could be passed on to future generations. However, this idea was never a central part of any of their theories about evolution. This is partly because it was never tested scientifically.
It's been more than 200 years since Lamarck was born and, in the age of genomics there is a vast amount of evidence to support the heritability of acquired traits. This is referred to as "neo Lamarckism", or more often epigenetic inheritance. This is a version that is just as valid as the popular neodarwinian model.
Evolution by Adaptation
One of the most common misconceptions about evolution is that it is driven by a sort of struggle for survival. This is a false assumption and ignores other forces driving evolution.