EVOLUTION! CONCEPT 1: ANALYZING THE MODES OF SPECIATION (MACROEVOLUTION)

- Chapter 24 (The Origin of Species)- P. 159-160 in Holtzclaw

WHAT IS A ‘SPECIES’? JIGSAW DEBATE On your own:

Determine the pros and cons of your particular species concept. Do you agree? What are some examples in nature? Is this a practical means of identifying species?

Meet with those that have the same concept as you: Compare notes. Get argument ready.

Get together with those with the same number: Share and solidify the pros and cons, examples, and

practicality of each species concept. Determine which species concepts your group agrees with

most. - Which is the most practical?- Which explains the origin of species best?

Share with class!

CONCEPT 1 - SPECIATION

The difference between microevolution and macroevolution

The biological concept of species Prezygotic and postzygotic barriers that

maintain reproductive isolation in natural populations

How allopatric and sympatric speciation are similar and different

How an autopolyploid or an allopolyploid chromosomal change can lead to sympatric speciation

How punctuated equilibrium and gradualism describe two different tempos of speciation

THE ORIGIN OF SPECIES – CHARLES DARWIN

On the last page… “Thus, from the war of nature, from

famine and death, the most exalted object which we are capable of conceiving, namely, the production of the higher animals, directly follows. There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed by the Creator into a few forms or into one; and that whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being evolved.”

NOW…

Activity 24.1 – What factors affect speciation? Case Study!