Project Sherlock

Series

2009

Evolution, Ecology and Behavior with Stephen C. Stearns

Stephen C. Stearns (YaleCourses)

Treats natural selection as a quantitative claim about differential reproduction, then derives life-history trade-offs, sex and social behaviour from it rather than describing them separately.

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If this is the wrong level

Too easy? Go hereEvolutionary Rate at the Molecular LevelMotoo Kimura, 1968Argues most substitutions observed at the molecular level are selectively neutral and fixed by genetic drift, not natural selection, because the rate is too high and too clock-like for selection to explain.

Filed under Evolutionary Biology in Biology.