Goal: To practice public communication of scientific concepts. It’s evident by now that I love memes: they can be used as a great way to demonstrate concepts in a visual (and often humorous) way.
Format: Meme. If you need an explanation of what a meme is: click here. https://www.lifewire.com/what-is-a-meme-2483702
Task: Create an original meme that demonstrates your understanding of one (or more) of the six mechanisms of evolution for your fellow students.
Guidance:
You must work alone and produce original content. Copying a meme created by another person is not acceptable and counts as plagiarism. You know I’m constantly looking for evolutionary memes and will know you cheated. Don’t risk failing the assignment (and facing the Academic Honesty Committee) over what is supposed to be a fun assignment.
The meme should not include any profanity or hateful language (slurs or other racist, sexist, homophobic content).
The meme should convey accurate information pertaining to one or more of the six evolutionary mechanisms.
Goal: To practice public communication of scientific concepts. It’s evident by now that I love memes: they can be used as a great way to demonstrate concepts in a visual (and often humorous) way.
Format: Meme. If you need an explanation of what a meme is: click here. (Links to an external site.)
Task: Create an original meme that demonstrates your understanding of one (or more) of the six mechanisms of evolution for your fellow students.
Guidance:
You must work alone and produce original content. Copying a meme created by another person is not acceptable and counts as plagiarism. You know I’m constantly looking for evolutionary memes and will know you cheated. Don’t risk failing the assignment (and facing the Academic Honesty Committee) over what is supposed to be a fun assignment.
The meme should not include any profanity or hateful language (slurs or other racist, sexist, homophobic content).
The meme should convey accurate information pertaining to one or more of the six evolutionary mechanisms.
Mechanism it is about: Sexual Selection
Explanation: Sexual selections happen when there is an imbalance in parental investment in offspring. When a parent is not invested in the offspring’s survival, they will typically instead have a trait that hurts their survival chances, as this demonstrates to possible mates that they can survive regardless (and thus have good genes to pass on to offspring). This meme is about making a hard decision, as if the individuals cannot decide whether to invest in their offspring or have disadvantageous traits instead.
How this mechanism can change the population’s genetics : The population will have more individuals with the disadvantageous trait over time, as individuals keep choosing mates that have the trait.
