Physical Anthropology

Lab: Natural Selection

Name: ___________________

In your own words define the following:

Phenotype:

Natural Selection:

Genetic Drift:

Use this link: Natural Selection Simulation

Click on Lab and complete the simulation 3 times

Take screen shots of your graphs reflecting the simulations you have created (You only need to go to generation 15 each time)

For every time you conduct the simulation write down the phenotypes that you choose

Describe the 3 rabbits you created

Be sure that during one of the simulations that you add variations of food and predators

What phenotypes survived the longest and why?

What did this exercise teach you about natural selection?

What did this exercise teach you about genetic drift?

How is this simulation different than real life?

How could this simulation be improved upon to make it more realistic?