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Natural Selection

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Organisms with best traits for their environment survive and reproduce

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Jean Baptiste Lamarck

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Acquired Characteristics: organisms gain a trait while alive and pass it on

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Uniformitarianism

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Processes happening today always happened the same way

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6 things for natural selection

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overproduction, limited resources, variations, adaptation, struggle for existence, inheritance

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Transitional species

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connected current organisms to common ancestors

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Homologous vs Analogous

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structure similar to ancestors, structure similar to different ancestors

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Vestigial Structure

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Traits from an ancestor lost their function

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Artificial selection

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man made selection

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Galápagos Islands

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Different beaks and tortoises, things in same place have differences

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Thomas Malthus

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Economist that questioned if there is enough recourses for the amount of people

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