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THE IMPORTANCE OF EXPERIMENTAL STUDIES IN EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY Douglas J. Futuyma and Albert F. Bennett. The major approaches to analyzing evolutionary processes:. Experimental Evolution Studies of Natural Populations Comparative methods. Advantages- Replication and control.
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THE IMPORTANCE OF EXPERIMENTAL STUDIES IN EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGYDouglas J. Futuyma and Albert F. Bennett
The major approaches to analyzing evolutionary processes: • Experimental Evolution • Studies of Natural Populations • Comparative methods
Advantages- Replication and control. Disadvantages –suited to laboratory rather than to natural situations. Experimental Evolution
Natural Populations • Advantage- offer ecological realism • Disadvantage - lack of ability to replicate results and control variables.
Advantage- widely used method to understand evolution of characters in the natural world. Disadvantage- Correlational Assumption of parsimony Comparative Methods
Trade-offs- adaptive gain and correlated loss. Escherichia Coli Genetic Drift – a founder event (or bottleneck in population size) may initiate new paths of adaptive evolution. Drosophila pseudoobscura 2 Examples of the Contribution of Experimental Studies to understand Evolution