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Mating

The pairing of male and female for the purpose of reproduction.


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Natural selection promotes....

How does natural selection promote pre-mating reproductive isolating mechanisms? I'm doing something on two species of frog who have different mating calls as a pre-mating isolating mechanism. In areas where they coexist, they have a different ...

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by buffy121
Sat Sep 05, 2009 4:43 am
 
Forum: Evolution
Topic: Natural selection promotes....
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... concluded that they are a completely different species. F1 Camel Is the result of cross breeding of Dromedary and Bactrian camel. This method of mating is prevalent in Afghanistan, Iran, Russia, and Turkey. Crossbreeding generally produces a bigger and heavier offspring than either parent. For ...

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by GaryGaulin
Tue Sep 01, 2009 12:22 am
 
Forum: Evolution
Topic: Natural selection is proven wrong
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Natural selection is proven wrong

... concluded that they are a completely different species. F1 Camel Is the result of cross breeding of Dromedary and Bactrian camel. This method of mating is prevalent in Afghanistan, Iran, Russia, and Turkey. Crossbreeding generally produces a bigger and heavier offspring than either parent. For ...

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by gamila
Mon Aug 31, 2009 4:37 pm
 
Forum: Evolution
Topic: Natural selection is proven wrong
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... is because Natural Selection does not explain where the variation it acts on comes from. This is where genetics comes in. One source is assortive mating, and another is mutation. Now, what happens during evolution, is there is a shift in the frequency of genes in a population (not individuals!). ...

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by robsabba
Fri Aug 28, 2009 5:29 pm
 
Forum: Evolution
Topic: Natural selection is proven wrong
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... examples resulted in speciation. It normally takes multiple such events to make a population different enough from the mother population to stop mating with that mother population. The creation of a population that either cannot or will not bred with the original is the definition of speciation ...

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by robsabba
Thu Aug 27, 2009 2:48 pm
 
Forum: Evolution
Topic: Natural selection is proven wrong
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