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1. What is your personal definition of ecology? How do the definitions of ecology presented
by Elements of Ecology and the one proposed by Ernst Haeckel vary? Which of these
definitions of ecology do you agree with? Why?
2. What are some economic concepts that are now deeply rooted in ecology?
3. What is the difference between evolution and natural selection? What factors make the
Galapagos Islands such a fertile ground for observing evolution and natural selection? What
are some other sites you might propose to observe evolution and natural selection in action?
4.
Fitness is an important and central concept in evolution. What, exactly, is evolutionary
fitness?
5. What is the Human Microbiome? How does the Human Microbiome affect human health and
behavior?
6. What determines an individual’s fitness? Are internal factors–like an individual’s genotype-most important? Or are external factors–the environment the individual experiences–most
important?
7.
At what level does evolution occur? Do individuals evolve? Or do populations evolve? Or
do communities evolve? Exactly what kind of change are we talking about when we talk
about evolution?
8. Can there be nonadaptive or even maladaptive evolution? Explain.
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