Thursday, May 10, 2012

Flashy Fish Simulation

Today I showed you the following link that goes through different scenarios that would affect the rates of evolution in a population.  http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/evolution/educators/lessons/lesson4/act2.html


A little background on the guppies.  MALE guppies are the ones that are usually "pretty" or "Flashy" as they are trying to impress the females who are usually very "drab".  There needs to be a balance though between being flashy to impress the ladies - but not TOOO flashy that all the predators are able to see you and therefore eat you. We ran through a couple scenarios for many generations to see what happened to the population.  What we found was that in certain scenarios, the types of predators did not affect the population at all.  Other times the brightest fish died off and only the drab survived.  I encourage you to run through these scenarios and look at the results and the analysis which speaks of why

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