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“Don’t let what you cannot do interfere with

what you can do.” –John Wooden

1. What does this mean to you?

2. How can you apply this to natural

selection or evolution?
Types of Selection
 Microevolution
• The fact that small-scale changes in trait
frequencies occur in a population

– Individuals don’t evolve, populations do

• Traits become more or less common

 Directional Selection
• Shift in one direction
– To bigger, darker, faster, etc.
 Directional Selection
• Peppered moth
 Directional Selection
• Pesticide resistance
 Directional Selection
• Antibiotic resistance
 Stabilizing Selection
• Middle/average traits
are favored
 Stabilizing Selection
• Cactus spines
Stabilizing Selection
• Infant head size
Disruptive Selection
• Extremes at both
ends are favored
Disruptive Selection
• Darwin’s Finches
Disruptive Selection
• The key that makes speciation
and macroevolution possible
Disruptive Selection
Review
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1. Compare and contrast natural
selection with artificial selection.
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1. Describe the 3 types of natural
selection, and give an example
of each.
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• Do you agree that disruptive selection over
a long period of time could be the lead-in
to speciation and/or macroevolution?

• Why or why not?