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Harry is a computer company executive, earning $200 per hour managing the company and promoting its products. His daughter Quinn is a high school student, earning $6 per hour helping her grandmother on the farm. Harry's computer is broken. He can repair it himself in one hour. Quinn can repair it in 10 hours. Harry's opportunity cost of repairing the computer is lower than Quinn's.
Natural Selection
The process by which organisms better adapted to their environment tend to survive and produce more offspring, a key mechanism of evolution proposed by Charles Darwin.
Landscape Genetics
An interdisciplinary field that combines landscape ecology and population genetics to study the effects of the environment on the genetic variation of species.
Evolution
The mechanism by which diverse species of organisms are considered to have emerged and varied from their predecessors over the course of the Earth's history.
Genetic Drift
A mechanism of evolution that causes allele frequencies to change randomly over time due to chance events.
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