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| A view of creation days that holds that the days in Genesis do not represent actual days but are rather a literary framework used to organize the creational events. The length of creation days in this view is not specified. |
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| This term refers to the development of similar characteristics in two species due to similar similar environments/natural selective pressures. The similar feature or characteristic was not present in a common ancestor of the two species. |
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| Biological species concept |
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| A species concept that defines a biological species as a population of organisms that can interbreed to produce viable, fertile offspring. |
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| A similarity in embryonic structures that is attributed to common ancestry. An example of this would be the notochord in chordates. |
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| The formation of new species from an initial population that shares the same habitat/range. |
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