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-agruculture-planting things
-domesticating animals and plants
-we decide which organisms will get to reproduce |
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-explination for decent with modification
- individual variation
-overproduction and competition |
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-father of paleontology
-french anatomist
-catatrophism |
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-french naturalist
-theory of evolution
-compared modern species fossil forms
-identified lines of decent
-evolution driven by this constant tendency toward complexity and perfection
-use and disuse
-inheritance of aquired traits |
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-job as a naturalist on H.M.S Beagle
- job was to locate, observe, record, and survey ship and to collect flora and fauna |
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-microevolution
-speciation
-macroevolution |
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-sweedish merchant by trade
-founder of taxonomy
-formed a hierarchy of increasingly similar general categories (species, genus, family)
-found oder in diversity of life |
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-unity in life throught common decent
-all life forms related by common ancestor
-decendents moved into various habitats
-accumulated adaptations to fit way of life
-tree diagram
-subgroups |
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-variation
-overproduction
-selection
-struggle for existence
-the most fit survive to reproduce |
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1. south american flora and fauna were distinct from those of europe
2. temperate species of SA were more similar to tropical than temperate species of europe
3. SA fossils resembled SA extinct species
4. saw natural forces at work
5. Galapagos-finches |
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| a group of similar individuals who have common ancestors and are capable of interbreeding |
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| accumulations of inherited characteristics that enhance organisms ability to survive and reproduce in specific environments |
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| catastrophes destroyed organisms, boundries between strata represent these. new organisms moved in the vacated areas, found in the new layer of sedimentary rock |
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| change in overall genetic composition of a population of organisms from one generation to the next |
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| coninuous change in genetic makeup |
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doman
kingdom
phylem
class
order
family
genus
species |
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| essay on the prinicples of populations: human populations tend to increase beyond te capacity of the environment to support them and result in famine disease and war |
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geological changes occur, the earth changes
profound change- a comulative product of slow, continuous processes
ex. canyon cut by rivers |
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| geological proccesses have not changed, same forces that build mountains and erode them and the rates at which these forces operate are the same today as they were long ago |
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| group of related individuals belonging to the same species, inhabiting the same geographic location |
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molds and casts
compressions and imprints
petrifications
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| Hierarchy of Biological Organization |
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molecule
organelle
cell
tissue
organ/ organ system
organism
population
community
ecosystem
bioshpere |
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| new species vs adaptation |
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new species arise from ancestral ones by gradually accumulating adaptations to a different environment
adapatations are inherited characteristics that enable one to survive and reproduce in a given environment |
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| order, regulation, energy processing, growth and development, reproduction, response to environment, evolutionary adaptation |
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| organisms have evolved from a common ancestor over time after accumulation of changes |
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| "On the origin of species by means of natural selections" |
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species were not created in their present form
evolution occurs by a proccess called Natural Selection |
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