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| Process of becoming adapted to an environment. |
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| The period of time that it takes for one-half of a given amount of a radioisotope to change. |
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| Member of the Phylum Arthropoda, which includes invertabrate animals, such as insects, crustaceans, and arachnids. |
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| Unstable isotope of an element. |
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| Tiny, abiotically produced vesicle formed by short chains of Amino Acids. |
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| Dating of objects through the measurement of relative proportions of a certain radioisotopes and the products of their radioactive decay. |
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| Preserved or mineralized remains or traces of an organism that lived long ago. |
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| A member of the kingdom protista. |
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Term used to indicate species that have disappeared permanently. |
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| Process by which populations change in response to their environment as individuals better adapted to the environment leave more offspring than those infividuals not suited to the environment. |
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| Day active primates including monkeys, apes, and humans. |
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| Condition in which two populations of a species are seperated so that they cannot interbreed. |
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| Structure reduced in size and function. |
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| Structures that share a common ancestry. |
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| Accumulation of differecne between groups. |
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| Process by which new species are formed. |
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| Term used to denote the ability to walk erect on two feet. |
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| Population of a species that differs genetically because of adaptions to different living conditions. |
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| Order of mammels that includes prosimians, monkeys, apes, and humans. |
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| A group of primates that includes Lorises, Tarsiers, and Lemurs. |
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| Term describing animals that are active during the day and sleep at night. |
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| Member of the family Hominidae of the order Primates; Charactorized by opposable thumbs. |
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