Download Evolve Version 2.04 User`s Manual

TABLE OF CONTENTS
Acknowledgments ..........................................................................................................................i
TABLE OF CONTENTS .............................................................................................................. ii
LIST OF FIGURES........................................................................................................................ v
Part 1. LEARNING TO USE EVOLVE ......................................................................................1
Preface. WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW..................................................................................2
Chapter 1. INTRODUCTION....................................................................................................4
Chapter 2. GETTING STARTED................................................................................................6
INTRODUCTION .............................................................................................................6
THE HELP SYSTEM .........................................................................................................6
EXERCISE 1: A Simple Experiment with Natural Selection.......................................7
Setting up the experiment....................................................................................8
Doing the Experiment ........................................................................................10
Looking at Results...............................................................................................11
LEAVING EVOLVE........................................................................................................14
Chapter 3. MORE ADVANCED FEATURES OF EVOLVE .................................................15
INTRODUCTION: Doing Experiments with EVOLVE.............................................15
EXERCISE 2. Comparing Selection in Small and Large Populations.....................16
Redoing the Experiment With Variations. ......................................................17
Moving Results to Paper and Elsewhere.........................................................19
EXERCISE 3. Comparing Runs with Different Random Numbers ........................20
EXERCISE 4. Changing the Evolutionary Situation During a Run ........................21
Chapter 4. BACKGROUND......................................................................................................23
THE HYPOTHETICAL ORGANISMS.........................................................................23
GENETIC CONCEPTS UNDERLYING THE MODEL..............................................25
An example ..........................................................................................................26
THE NATURE OF EVOLUTIONARY FITNESS ........................................................28
PART 2. EXPERIMENTING WITH EVOLUTION................................................................31
Chapter 5. ELEMENTARY EXERCISES .................................................................................32
FUNDAMENTALS .........................................................................................................32
Initial Population.................................................................................................32
Survival and Reproductive Rates .....................................................................33
Hardy-Weinberg Equilibrium...........................................................................33
EXERCISE 5. How long does it take to establish Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium
starting with a population that is not in equilibrium ................................................34