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Natural Selection in the Wild John A. Endler
Publisher: Princeton University Press

But the theory from community fitness predicts the opposite effect: Aging responds Those fish that had the shorter life spans in the wild had longer life spans in the aquarium. This is important because it will allow us to study how such individual differences evolve and are maintained under the influence of natural selection in the wild. Instead, I want to sketch a few examples of natural selection that have caught my fancy, and through them consider different aspects of evolutionary change, and what it takes to show it. Therefore, the only selective pressure was speed (in the wild, Cheney compared this behavior to running from predators). Instead, he studied the systematics of barnacles, bred pigeons, and crossed plants. No discussion of evolution in nature would be complete without mention of the . Charmantier A, Garant D (2005) Environmental quality and evolutionary potential: lessons from wild populations Proc R So Lond B 272: 1415–1425. "Nature is amazing in how it designs things," Cheney considers natural selection — the process by which biological organisms survive, reproduce and change over time to better suit their environments — to be a natural algorithm, extremely similar to what engineers use to optimize robots over time. Indeed, Darwin himself made no significant attempt to study natural selection in the wild. Citation: Pettay JE, Helle S, Jokela J, Lummaa V (2007) Natural Selection on Female Life-History Traits in Relation to Socio-Economic Class in Pre-Industrial Human Populations. This is the prediction of the community-fitness theory. For head size in Australian snakes, see Phillips, B. CrossRef · PubMed/NCBI · Google Scholar. €�Evolution driven by differential dispersal within a wild bird population.” Nature 433: 60-65. When many animals are dying young, for whatever reason, the individual-based theory says that life span should evolve to be shorter, because the declining force of natural selection is declining so much the faster. Into a metaphorical as well as literal hurricane), or Kris Stone's huge, spectacular sets that sealed the deal, but whatever it was, I was happy to go along for the wild, wonderful ride that was "Natural Selection" in Louisville.