A comprehensive presentation on evolution and natural selection. It compares Lamarck’s ideas with Darwin’s, sets out Darwin’s voyage and theory, and covers the evidence for evolution, then moves on to population genetics, Hardy Weinberg, genetic drift, types of selection, speciation and reproductive barriers.
What this presentation covers
- Lamarck and the inheritance of acquired characteristics
- Darwin, the Beagle and On the Origin of Species
- natural and artificial selection
- evidence for evolution
- populations, species and gene pools
- the Hardy Weinberg principle
- genetic drift, bottleneck and founder effects, gene flow and mutation
- stabilising, directional and diversifying selection
- speciation and reproductive barriers
- adaptive radiation, convergent evolution and coevolution
Level: A Level
Slides: 44
Format: PowerPoint (.pptx)