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Evolution: process of change over time
Fossils: preserved remains/traces of ancient organisms
Deep Time: Which means that it is believed that the earth is so old that we can't begin to comprehend its history.
Uniformitarianism: idea that geological processes we see in
action today must be the same ones that shaped Earth
millions of years ago
Acquired characteristics: traits altered by an individual organism during its life
Artificial selection: a process in which nature provides the
variations, and humans select those they find useful
Adaptation: any heritable characteristic that increases an organism’s ability to survive and reproduce in its environment
Fitness: describes how well an organism can survive and
reproduce in its environment
Natural selection: process by which organisms with variations most suited to their local environment survive and leave more offspring
Biogeography: the study of where organisms live now and where they
and their ancestors lived in the past

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1. What were Lamarck’s ideas about evolution?- living things evolved in a continuously upward direction, from dead matter, through simple to more complex forms

2. What does natural selection directly act on?- an organism's characteristics/phenotype.

3. List the five steps in the speciation of the Galapagos finches.- 1. Founders arrive 2. Geographic isolation 3. Gene pools change 4. Behavioral selection 5. Competition and continued evolution

4. Describe how Darwin’s ideas about Natural Selection explain how some animals have similar appearances.- over many generations, beneficial adaptations stick around and allow the organisms to adapt and survive in their environment. This results in animals have similar appearances due to these good adaptations.

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Darwin's theories were very important. His theories gave us an idea of my species of the same category are different throughout the world. Hs theories also helped to show that most creatures evolved from a common and ancestor. And as you can see evolution affects everything including us.

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Darwin's theory of evolution suggests that over time species developed traits to help them survive and reproduce in their environment. And that evolution directly relies on an organism's characteristics / traits

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Theory of Evolution: How did Darwin come up with it? - BBC News