MAPs are members of the tau family of proteins, which stabilize microtubules:

Tau 

MAP2

MAP4

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Cope’s rule:  A proposed generalization that individual body size in animals tends to increase during evolution.

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Hitchhiking: Change in the frequency of an allele due to linkage with a selected allele at another locus.

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Dollo’s law:  A biological generalization positing that complex characters, once lost in evolution, are extremely unlikely to reappear and thus the loss of complex characters is virtually always irreversible.

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Van Valen law - he found a surprising result: rather straight curves, implying that the probability of extinction is roughly constant.

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Ockham’s principle - Principle of parsimony 

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The Forces of Evolution

mutation, 

genetic drift

gene flow or migration

selection.