What is the different kinds of evolution?

Question

Or just give me the examples please.

Answer 1

1. Divergent evolution is the process of two or more related species becoming more and more dissimilar. The red fox and the kit fox are an example of two species that have undergone divergent evolution. The red fox lives in mixed farmlands and forests, where its red color helps it blend in with surroundings. The kit fox lives on the plains and in the deserts, where its sandy color helps conceal it from prey and predators. The kit fox's large ears are an adaptation to its desert environment. The enlarged surface area of its ears helps the fox get rid of excess body heat. Similarities in structure indicate that the red fox and the kit fox had a common ancestor. As they adapted to different environments, the appearance of the two species diverged.

2. In convergent evolution unrelated species become more and more similar in appearance as they adapt to the same kind of environment. Two unrelated types of plants adapt to the desert environment; the cactus, which grows in the American desert, and the euphorbia, which grows in the African deserts both have fleshy stems armed with spines. These adaptations help the plants store water and ward off predators.

3. Coevolution is the joint change of two or more species in close interaction. Predators and their prey sometimes coevolve; parasites and their hosts often coevolve; plant-eating animals and the plants upon which they feed also coevolve. One example of coevolution is between plants and the animals that pollinate them.

Answer 2

Assuming you mean evolution of species (biological evolution), there is only one kind of evolution.

Depending on how it is viewed (or over what timeframe) it may appear to be different. But, the mechanism of change is ALWAYS the same.

Answer 3

i don't know names, but i do know that two kinds of evolution are
1a dramatic mutation happens in a member of a species, and as he reproduces, more and more of that species will have the mutation, if the mutation is a good thing, (like the ability to fly) then the non-mutated members of that species won't be able to compete for food and will die off leaving only the mutated ones, but if it's a bad thing, then the mutated ones wil die off
2 similar to the first one, but instead it is a series of small mutations (like gradually sprouting wings) and happens over a larger number of the species rather than just one

Answer 4

I think you are refering to Darwins concepts in his book.

They are

Desecent with modification
-Darwin perceived that all organisms are related through descent from a unknown common anncestor
-Descendants acquired diverse adaptation to their specfic enviroment.

Black *butterflies* and white *butterflys*
During the industrial revolution, there was lots and lots of smoke which settled onto the trees in Europe. Well, the white *butterflies* carry the dominant gene, and the black ones had the recessive. So when the smoke fell upon the trees, the white butterfies were being picked off easily by predators. So soon after, the Black alelle *kicked* in and the butterflies started becomeing black, but when the smoek disappeared slowly, the black ones were picked off, and the white ones thrived again.

im not sure about *butterflies* but they were similar to them

and...
Natural Selection adn Adaptation

Examples of natural selection in action
In an effort to test Darwin's hypothesis that the beaks of Galapagos finches are evolutionary adaptations to different food sources, Peter and Rosemary Grant of Princeton University have been conducting a long-term study on medium ground finches (Geospiza fortis) on Daphne Major, a tiny Galapagos island. They have discovered that:
ï Average beak depth (an inherited trait) oscillates with rainfall.

à In wet years, birds preferentially feed on small seeds, and average beak depth decreases.
à In dry years, small seeds are less plentiful, so survival depends on the finches being able to crack the less preferred larger seeds. Average beak depth increases during dry years.
ï It can be inferred that the change in beak depth is an adaptive response to the relative availability of small seeds from year to year.
This study illustrates some important points about adaptive change:
ï Natural selection is situational. What works in one environmental context may not work in another.
ï Beak evolution on Daphne Major does not result from inheritance of acquired characteristics. The environment did not create beaks specialized for large or small seeds, but only acted on inherited variations already present in the population. The proportion of thicker-beaked finches increased during dry periods because, on average, thicker-beaked birds transmitted their genes to more offspring than did thinner-beaked birds.

Michael Singer and Camille Parmesan of the University of Texas, have documented rapid evolutionary adaptation in a butterfly population (Edith's checkerspot) living in a meadow near Carson City, Nevada.
ï In only a decade, this butterfly population apparently adapted to changing vegetation by inherited changes in reproductive behavior.
ï Females lay eggs preferentially on certain plants which provide food for the larvae after they hatch. In 1983, checkerspots laid about 80% of their eggs on a native plant, Collinsia parviflora.
ï By 1993, the butterflies were laying about 70% of their eggs on Plantago lanceolata, an invading weed from surrounding cattle ranches.
ï The researchers demonstrated that the switch in plant preference is genetic; daughters of butterflies that deposited eggs on Plantago inherited the taste for that plant, choosing it over Collinsia when they laid their eggs.

There are hundreds of examples of natural selection in laboratory populations of such organisms as Drosophila. Other examples of natural selection in action include:
ï Antibiotic resistance in bacteria
ï Body size of guppies exposed to different predators