. A population of red deer were trapped on an island off of England during the last interglacial period. Within 6,000 years, the population evolved from a mean weight of 200 kg to a mean weight of 36 kg. The generation time of red deer is 5 years and the narrow sense heritability of body weight is 0.5. What is the rate of evolutionary change (in Darwins)?
. A population of red deer were trapped on an island off of England during the last interglacial period. Within 6,000 years, the population evolved from a mean weight of 200 kg to a mean weight of 36 kg. The generation time of red deer is 5 years and the narrow sense heritability of body weight is 0.5. What is the rate of evolutionary change (in Darwins)?
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. A population of red deer were trapped on an island off of England during the last interglacial period. Within 6,000 years, the population evolved from a mean weight of 200 kg to
a mean weight of 36 kg. The generation time of red deer is 5 years and the narrow sense
heritability of body weight is 0.5. What is the rate of evolutionary change (in Darwins)?
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According to Darwin's theory, evolution by natural selection require the following criteria:- A phenotypic variation in population is required for natural selection. These variations should be heritable. Their survival & rate of reproduction must be non random ( as of phenotypic variation).
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