All of the items focused on macroscopic patterns of evolutionary change.
(Ackermann and Cheverud 2004, p. 17951) Both natural selection and genetic drift collectively explain patterns of evolutionary change.
This has made possible the first direct inferences about patterns of evolutionary diversification in the soft-sediment macrofauna.
Because of their usefulness in depicting patterns of evolutionary relationships, phylogenies permeate the scientific literature and biology textbooks (Catley and Novick 2008).
All of these instruments contain similar item formats: open-ended questions that ask students to explain how patterns of evolutionary change occurred (from the standpoint of a biologist).
Recent phylogeographic studies of animal taxa in California have revealed common geographic patterns of evolutionary divergence and genetic diversity that are generally attributable to landscape influences.
One source of confidence in treating them as exemplars derives from an inductive inference over discovered patterns of evolutionary conservation with respect to developmental phenomena (e.g., gastrulation or somite formation).
However, by triangulating between archaeological data points, modern genetic inferences and historical linguistics, we should be better placed to recapture and reconstruct patterns of evolutionary process and history that brought us to where we are today.
We used clinical interviews and two paper and pencil instruments (one open-response and one multiple-choice) to investigate the use of non-adaptive and adaptive factors in undergraduate students' patterns of evolutionary reasoning.
Many widely used instruments, nevertheless, ignore the possibility that non-adaptive factors (such as genetic drift) could contribute to patterns of evolutionary change that the instrument scenarios present (e.g., Bird beak evolution in Anderson et al.'s CINS instrument).
Nor is there any doubt that the subject matter of phylogenetics—how to reconstruct evolutionary lineages, and the patterns of evolutionary history that are thereby revealed is still vitally important to the education process.
