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Evolutionary Applications Activity What is your name? Caden Anderson Free Response #1: What part does understanding evolution play in understanding and making wise choices in my current (and future) health? It can help us better treat and understand diseases, it helps me to consider my health choices and how genes have been passed down to me. Free Response #2: How is lactase persistence evidence for natural selection?   Lactase persistence is evidence for natural selection because the ability to digest lactose provided an advantage in environments where milk was a major source of food. This allowed lactase persistent individuals to consume milk and milk products, which likely played a role in their survival and reproductive success. As a result, the lactase persistence trait became more common in populations that historically practiced dairy farming. Free Response #3: What types of environments would lactase persistence be selected for and what types of environments might this mutation, if it appeared, go extinct? In places where people continue to consume milk and other food sources with lactose into adulthood, such as cheese or yogurt. If people lived in a place without livestock like cows or goats (sources of milk), they wouldn’t need the mutation and it would likely go extinct. Free Response #4: Think about how the “rules” of evolution work and how complex behaviors like intelligence emerge via these rules.  Now think of a computational system in which humans write only very simple rules and provide a means for the system to adapt.  How do these two ideas complement each other? The rules of evolution, based on variation, selection, and reproduction, suggest that complex behaviors can emerge from simple variations in traits that are selected for and passed down to
subsequent generations. This idea complements the concept of a computational system that relies on simple rules to adapt. In such a system, humans write simple rules that are used to generate solutions, and the iterative process of variation, selection, and reproduction leads to the emergence of more complex behaviors and solutions.
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