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WHAT ARE THE GOALS OF EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY? |
- To discover the history of life on Earth
- determine ancestor-descendant relationship among all species that have ever lived -- phylogeny
- determine times of species origin and extinction
- determine the rate and course of change of and origin of a species' characteristics
- To understand the causal processes of evolution
- origins of hereditary variation
- how do various processes act to affect the fate of these variations?
- understand the relative importance of the many co-acting processes of change
- how rapidly do these changes occur?
- natural selection, mutation, genetic drift, gene flow, diverse molecular, anatomical, behavioral and other characteristics of different organisms ... how does this happen?
- how do populations of one species become different species?
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