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Structure and Function. Structure and Function in the Origin. S tructures developed through descent by modification modulated by natural selection. Connects structure with function through adaptation. Influence of Naturphilosophie. Archetype or Urplan Development of taxa within the plan. - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

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Structure and Function

          

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Structure and Function in the Origin

Structures developed through descent by modification modulated by natural selection.

Connects structure with function through adaptation.

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Influence of Naturphilosophie

• Archetype or Urplan•  Development of taxa within the plan

Richard Owen 1804-1892, Britain

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Following OriginDetermine evolutionary history by morphology• Similarities and differences between existing taxa

• Construct phylogenies using paleontology

Thomas Henry Huxley 1825-1895, Britain

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Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel• German naturalist• Expert on Radiolaria• Coined many common terms including Protista, Ecology, Phylogeny, Stem Cell

• Developed Darwinism built on Naturphilosophie

• Evolutionary Morphology: search for phylogenies based on form and development within structural constraints

1834-1919, Germany

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H.M.S Challenger• Supported, in part, by The Royal Society

• Traveled 170,000 km samples from the surface to the bottom

1872-1876

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Kunst-Formen der Natur

• Had been populizer of evolution

• Artist and produced 100 plates in the form of Art Nouveau

• Common ancestry explained repeated patterns in body plans

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Following the rediscovery of Mendel and the discovery of mutations, structural change due to random mutation forming hopeful monsters.Structural constraints not as important.

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Theodosius Grygorovych Dobdzansky

• Initially, mutationist• Then, began to work on ADH in fruitflies.– Enough natural variation 

– Natural selection documented in fruitflies

1900-1975, Russian Empire and USA

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From Michael Ruse (2003)

Now understand that living things have evolved within multiple constraints (as did Darwin):• Genetic constraints:– Does the gene produce product(s)?– Size of genome

• Historical or phylogenetic constraints• Structural constraints: the task of putting together a functioning organism

1940-present, USA

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Genetic Constraints

• Product(s) of the gene– Working product(s)– Pleiotropy

• Size of genome– Related to complexity– Can determine size of 

the cell

Rudolf Raff, 1941- present, USA

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Historical Constraints• Developmental constraints; earlier molecular characters fixed in the line

– Need not be optimally adaptive– Homologies based on past history– Homeotic genes

• Proteins that regulate structural genes• HOX genes (homologs in fruit flies, frogs, fish, mice, and humans)

• Relationship between bauplan (urplan) and adaptation– Might be nonadaptive or maladaptive– Reduce importance of function in evolution

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Structural Constraints

• Many characters are left over or allometric (ex: Irish Elk).

• How do new characters form?

• Unexpected structures can be co-opted (ex: feathers).

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D’Arcy Wentworth Thompson

• On Growth and Form (1916)

• Form over function• Form determined by physics of the environment (ex: aquatic organisms conform to a water-drop shape)

• Thus, physics trumps adaptation

1860-1948, Scotland

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Radiolarian Evolution, Form and Function

• Recognized as unicell with mineralized nested cytoskeleton elements

• 2 Major groups: SiO2 and SrSO4 

• Both have taxa that are bilaterally- or radially-symmetrical     

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Structure and Function• Molecular phylogenetics• Molecules have form that is related to function• Confirms relationship Darwinian relationship between form and function thus connecting form to adaptation (natural selection)

ML phylogeny based on SSU rRNA 

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…natural selection has been invigorated and made healthier precisely because of the new emphasis on form, rather than despite it.

-Michael Ruse