Usually a change in the envirnoment where one group will do better and the other group will move to find a new place where they can thrive.
For a population to diverge, there must be factors that lead to genetic isolation or reproductive isolation between different groups within the population. This can be due to geographic barriers, different selective pressures, or mutations that create differences in traits. Over time, these isolated groups accumulate genetic and phenotypic differences, leading to divergence.
mating must happen randomly
Individuals with the beneficial trait must survive and reproduce at a higher rate than those without the trait. This differential reproductive success leads to an increase in the frequency of the advantageous trait in the population over time, allowing for evolution to occur.
For evolution to occur, there must be genetic variation within a population, inheritability of these genetic traits from one generation to the next, differential survival and reproduction based on these traits (natural selection), and long periods of time for changes to accumulate across generations.
In order for the theory of evolution to hold true within a population, there must be genetic variation among individuals, a mechanism for inheritance of traits from parents to offspring, and differential survival and reproduction based on these inherited traits. These conditions allow for natural selection to occur, driving the process of evolution within a population over time.
For a population to diverge, there must be factors that lead to genetic isolation or reproductive isolation between different groups within the population. This can be due to geographic barriers, different selective pressures, or mutations that create differences in traits. Over time, these isolated groups accumulate genetic and phenotypic differences, leading to divergence.
mating must happen randomly
Without variation there is nothing to select from.
For speciation to occur, one population must diverge genetically from another. Divergence is very difficult if the two populations exchange genes readily between them. A short rule of thumb to remember is:Populations which exchange genes are more alike genetically than those that don't.This means, in order to diverge genetically from one another, there must be some barriers, or reproductive isolation, to gene flow between them. When there are these barrier to gene flow, each population can accumulate different mutations and combinations of alleles independently of the other, thus diverging genetically.
A population must be isolated in some way
Two objects must be touching and it has to transfer heat
A genetic mutation within the population.
Individuals with the beneficial trait must survive and reproduce at a higher rate than those without the trait. This differential reproductive success leads to an increase in the frequency of the advantageous trait in the population over time, allowing for evolution to occur.
1. No net mutations occur; that is, the alleles remain the same 2. Individuals neither enter nor leave the population 3. The population is large (ideally, infinitely large) 4. Individuals mate randomly 5. Selection does not occur
There must be genetic variation, the variation must be heritable, and there must be differential reproduction (due to competition).
No disruptive circumstances must be present in random mating in a population for Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium to occur. Mating must happen randomly. No allele can give an advantage
For evolution to occur, there must be genetic variation within a population, inheritability of these genetic traits from one generation to the next, differential survival and reproduction based on these traits (natural selection), and long periods of time for changes to accumulate across generations.