Adaptive Evolution
This text discusses stabilizing selection, directional selection, diversifying selection, frequency-dependent selection, sexual selection, and that there is no perfect organism.
Topics
- adaptive evolution
- allele frequency
- assortative mating
- bottleneck effect
- cline
- directional selection
- diversifying selection
- evolutionary fitness
- founder effect
- frequency-dependent selection
- gene flow
- gene pool
- genetic drift
- genetic structure
- genetic variance
- geographical variation
- good genes hypothesis
- handicap principle
- heritability
- honest signal
- inbreeding
- inbreeding depression
- macroevolution
- microevolution
- modern synthesis
- nonrandom mating
- population genetics population variation
- relative fitness
- selective pressure
- sexual dimorphism
- stabilizing selection
- beneficial allele
- common side-blotched lizards
- evolutionary fitness (also, Darwinian fitness)
- fecundity
- Fisherian runaway model
- negative frequency-dependent selection
- peppered moth
- positive frequency-dependent selection
- R.A. Fisher
- secondary sexual characteristic
- sex-role reversed
- sexual dimorphisms
- unfavorable allele
- polymorphism
- natural selection
- sexual selection
- fitness