Overview
Irreducible complexity is the idea that biological systems with multiple interacting parts that cannot function with the loss of a single part could not have evolved via natural selection as proposed by Charles Darwin and Russel Wallace.Utilizing the idea of irreducible complexity, the complexity of the ‘camera like’ eye of mammals where the removal of a single component makes it dysfunctional, could not have evolved by natural selection, yet we can trace the complexity of the mammalian eye back to simple, light detection cells, supporting evolution by natural selection.
In an original, well researched and organized essay (of appropriate academic level: 3000 level University) demonstrate your understanding of evolution by natural selection by making an argument refuting the supposition that irreducible complexity of the mammalian eye/vision does not support Darwin/Wallace’s theory of evolution by natural selection.If a single component of the mammalian eye is removed, the eye no longer functions as designed.
Characteristics that influence the evolution of a population include rate of mutations, generation time/fecundity and population size.
In an original, well researched and organized essay (of appropriate academic level: 3000 level University) demonstrate your understanding of the roles these 3 characteristics play in evolution by natural selection.Compare and contrast the evolution by natural selection of a large population exhibiting high mutation rates and short generation times with that of a small population exhibiting low mutation rates and long generation times.Support your argument with an example of each population described.