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A gambler's model of natural selection
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The American Biology Teacher
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May 1, 1996
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Copyright informationCopyright National Association of Biology Teachers May 1996. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
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It is difficult to intuitively grasp how chance in the evolutionary process can lead to complex ends. To quote Darwin:
To suppose that the eye with all its inimitable catrivances for adjusting the focus to different distances, for admitting different amounts of light, and for the correction of spherical and chromatic aberration, could have been formed by natural selection, seems, I freely confess, absurd in the highest degree (Darwin 1975).
It is obviously important for students to appreciate the power of natural selection since this is such a fundamental paradigm in biology. We have developed a laboratory exercise based on a model described by Dawkins (1986). In his model, natural ...
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