Capacity Quote by Peter R. Grant

“Genes that underlie the capacity to receive, use and transmit information are the evolving properties.”

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Exchange of breeding individuals between two populations tends to homogenize their gene pools.

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Closely related species of birds are also chromosomally similar.

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Evidence of epistasis from hybridization studies is more scarce.

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Almost nothing is known from hybridization studies about the inheritance of courtship behavior of females, or of their responsiveness to particular male signals.

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To summarize, the particular song a male sings, and the behavioral responses of females to song and morphological signals, are not genetically inherited in…

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The independent role of morphology in mate choice is revealed by the rare instances where the usual association between song and morphology is disrupted.

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The divergence of songs in the new population away from those in the progenitor population would only be prevented if these processes were balanced…

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The process of speciation is completed with the cessation of genetic exchange.

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Plumage features constitute a major component of courtship signals.

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Males transmit signals in courtship through behavioral displays.

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The theory of founder effects does not explain how novel features like plumage traits arise.

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We observe closely related species in sympatry and infer how they evolved from a common ancestor.

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